Peete DIS 
NOVEMBER 29, 1911] NEW MELASTOMATACEAE 1203 
scurfy, ultimately glabrous, 1 em. long more or less, usually with 
interaxillary bracts. Inflorescence terminal and erect, densely 
scurfy with fine latericius scales, subtended by small leaves, 
panieulate, less than 5 em. long, usually exceeded by the foliage; 
peduncle only 1 or 2 em. long, stout, angular; branches similar, 
very shortly rebranched above the middle; pedicels 1 to 2 mm. 
long, thick and seurfy, subtended by bract vestiges; calyx sub- 
globose, 3 mm. across, similarly seurfy, at least 5-apiculate; 
petals also 5, caducous and reflexed from between the calyx 
teeth, yellowish, 2.5 mm. long, short obovate; stamens 10; 
filaments 1 mm. long, much compressed, glabrous; anther sacs 
on the outer edge of the irregularly shaped and somewhat 
compressed 1 mm. long connective. 
Type specimen 12518, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Collected in wet clay mixed with stones on a densely wooded 
ridge at 4750 feet of mount Giting-giting. 
Not A. roljei Vid. from description, more closely to A. cu- 
mingiana Vid., yet sufficiently distinct. The difference between 
Vidal’s two species is not clear to me. 
Astronia viridifolia Elm. n. sp. 
A slender and erect tree; stem 12.5 em. thick, 5 m. high, 
its main branches arising from below the middle; wood dingy 
or yellowish white, odorless and without taste; bark thin, yel- 
lowish, flaking in thin scales; the lower branches ascending, 
numerously rebranched, the ultimate ones relatively short, sub- 
horizontal, repeatedly branched from the lower side, with as- 
cending leafy tips, the young portion finely yellowish gray pul- 
verulent. Leaves gracefully recurved, mostly descending, thinly 
coriaceous, flat or only shallowly folded upon the velvety. dark 
green upper surface, gradually tapering into the sharply acu- 
minate point, entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, curing 
light green beneath and darker so above, glabrous, base sub- 
cuneate, the average blade 1 dm. long by 3 em. wide across 
the middle, pointedly oblongish or sharply fusiform; midvein 
yellowish brown, sublucid and conspicuous beneath, the lateral 
pair from the base to apex, cross bars and submarginal line 
very faint; petiole 2 to 3 em. long, slender, dark colored when 
