1202 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
long, thick, scaly brown, calyx subglobose, 2.5 mm. high, 1 mm. 
wider, similarly seurfy, 5-dentate; petals reddish yellow, 5, eadu- 
cous, alternating with the calyx teeth and strongly reflexed, 
smooth, ovately elliptic or subrotund, 1.5 mm. long; stamens 10, 
all alike; filaments scarcely 1 mm. long, very broad especially 
toward the base, glabrous; anther cells upon the inner side of 
the fleshy short ellipsoid 1 mm, long glabrous connective which 
is attached to the filament from its side; infrutescence copious, 
flatly paniculate, 1.5 dm. across; all the branches glabrous, 
pedicels slender, 3 mm. long; fruits few clustered, flatly globose, 
with a cupular rim, glabrous, dry, dull brown, becoming shredded 
from the apex toward base; seed minute, linear, shining, broadest 
toward the base, one side nearly black, the balance light straw 
brown. 
Type specimens 7807 for flower and 7448 for fruit, A. D. E. 
Elmer, Lucban (Mt. Banahao), Province of Tayabas, Luzon, 
May, 1907. 
Discovered in wooded ravines at 2000 feet of mount Banahao. 
Astronia gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
Suberect tree; stem terete, 2 dm. thick, 5 to 8 m. high; wood 
hard and heavy, dingy white or reddish toward the center, with- 
out odor or taste; bark yellowish gray, sealing in longitudinal 
plates; branches mainly toward the top, forming a rather dense 
small crown; twigs suberect, the ultimate portion obscurely 
angled and finely latericius, felty. Leaves opposite, chiefly toward 
the ends of the branchlets, horizontal, the terminal ones suberect, 
rigidly chartaceous, usually folded upon the upper side which is 
very dark green, paler beneath, curing dull green, when old gla- 
brous, in the early state both sides but especially beneath covered 
with latericius or reddish brown scales, entire margins subrecurved 
in the dry state, obtuse or subcuneate at the base, gradually 
tapering toward the acute or acuminate recurved apex, fusiformly 
oblong, the average blades 7.5 em. long by 3 em. across the widest 
portion; midvein very prominent beneath, scurfy at first, the 
lateral pair arising 3 to 5 mm. above the base and gracefully 
arching into the apex, the submarginal line faint; cross bars 
quite evident between the midvein and the lateral ones, straight, 
about 10 on a side, divaricate, parallel; petiole at first similarly 
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