1204 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
dry, glabrous, grooved along the upper side. Inflorescence 
erect, terminal, subcorymbose; peduncles usually 3, finely 
yellowish gray scurfy, subtended by a pair of small leaves, 
branched from above the middle; branches short, rebranched 
at their ends, similarly scurfy, subtended by vestiges of brac- 
teoles; pedicels 1 mm. long, relatively thick, latericius scurfy; 
calyx 3 to 4 mm. across, subglobose, minutely seurfy, 5- 
toothed; petals 5, reddish, oblong or obovately so, ca- 
ducous, in the bud state imbricately folded, reflexed when in 
anthesis especially so toward the base, at least 1 mm. long; anthers 
orange red, compressed, irregular in shape, 1 mm. long, dehiscing 
on the outer angled side. 
Type specimen 12281, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Gathered in moist reddish soil of wooded banks along the 
Patoo river at 1000 feet. The Sibuyan natives know it as **Coy- 
canigag." 
Quite distinet from my previous species and A. subcaudata 
Merr. in herbarium, Bureau of Science. 
Astronia cuernosensis Elm. n. sp. 
Strict tree, 5 m. high; wood soft, whitish, covered with brown 
bark; branches numerous, forming an umbrella shaped erown; 
twigs relatively short, ascending, angular, glabrate except the 
young tips which are reddish brown pulverulent. Leaves glabrous 
and very dark green on the upper surface and ater brown 
when dry, fulvus or vellowish brown pulverulent beneath even 
so in the dry state and finally becoming glabrate, coriaceous, 
entire margins slightly recurved, the rather abrupt and sharply 
acuminate apex recurved, base bluntly obtuse, elliptically 
oblong, variable in size, the larger blades 7.5 cm. long by 3 em. 
across the middle, copious; midvein prominent beneath, reddish 
brown, the lateral pair arising 3 mm. from the base and 
gracefully curving clear into the apex, cross bars between 
midvein and lateral ones about 10 on each side; petiole 1 
em. long, ultimately glabrate, caniculate on the upper side. 
Young infrutescence latericius, terminal, erect, spar ingly branch- 
ed or spicate, 5em. long, the rachis angled and grooved on the 
sides; branches few, short, opposite or in subwhorls, more 
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