NoveMBER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1205 
numerous toward the top; pedicels 2 mm. long; young fruits 
nearly 3 mm. across, subglobose, apex truncate and obscurely 
dentate. 
Type specimen 10234, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete (Cuernos 
| Mts.), Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 1908. 
On a wind swept moss laden humid knoll at 4000 feet. 
: Quite different from the description of A. pulchra Vid. 
Astronia ferruginea Elm. n. sp. 
Small tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, 7 m. high; wood moderately 
| soft, sappy white, without odor or taste; bark brown, scaling in 
| thin plates; branches from above the middle, ascending, the ulti- 
| mate ones short and crooked, quite thick, the young portion 
covered with ferrugineously colored scales and obscurely angular. 
Leaves opposite, mainly toward the ends of the twigs, horizontal 
or ascending, coriaceous, gradually tapering to the recurved acu- 
| minate apex, base broadly obtuse, the entire margin slightly re- 
1 curved, glabrous and dull green above, nearly castaneus when dry, 
| the young ones covered with ferruginous scales, quite variable 
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in size, the larger blades 1.5 dm. long by 5.5 em. wide aeross the 
middle or a trifle below it, ovately oblong or the smaller lamina 
broadly lanceolate, the lower surface at all times covered with 
richly colored ferruginous minute scales; midvein prominently 
raised beneath, darker ferruginous; the lateral pair arising from 
the base and curving into the abruptly constricted spine-like 
tip, the submarginal line distinct, also darker ferruginous; cross 
bars prominent, with reticulations rather plain; petiole 2 cm. long, 
similarly seurfy but finally glabrate, flattened along the upper 
side. Infrutescence short paniculate or subeorymbose, ascendingly 
branched from the base or near it, the secondary stalks freely re- 
branched above the middle, all angular and dark rusty brown; fruits 
clustered toward the ends chiefly, many, upon 3 mm. long sim- 
ilarly scaly pedicels, subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter, the truncate 
apex crowned by 5 persistent teeth; seeds numerous, 2 mm. 
| long, clavate, light straw brown except the dark brown side, 
| dry. 
Type specimen 11426, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
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