1206 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 66 
Along wooded streamlets at 5500 feet on the east slope of 
mount Apo. 
Possibly ours is nearest related to A. calycina Vid. 
Astronia apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
A tree-like shrub; stem 5 to 7 m. high, 1 dm. thick; its 
branches mainly at the top, ascending, few, sparingly rebranched; 
twigs erect, 2.5 em. thick, green, more or less square; wood soft, 
whitish, without odor or taste; bark yellowish brown, checked. 
Leaves coarse and large, flat, ascending, oppositely scattered 
every 7 to 12 cm. apart, heavy, coriaceous, glabrous except the 
veins and nerves beneath, dark green and lucid above, much 
paler beneath, only the blunt acute tips recurved, entire margins 
rolled in upon the lower side after being dry, curing yellowish 
green above, beneath much duller, lamina 3 dm. long by 14 em. 
wide across the middle, oblong or rather elliptically so, equally 
tapering from the middle toward both ends, giving it a fusiform 
shape, broadly acute or obtuse at the base; veins 7 from the base, 
the midvein stoutest, the lowest pair least conspicuous and sub- 
. marginal, all more or less sunken on the upper side, brown pul- 
verulent scurfy but nearly glabrate in age especially the largest 
ones; cross bars very conspicuous and reddish scurfy beneath, 
sunken on the upper side, the secondary cross bars also present; 
petiole ascending, green, succulent, very stout, 1 dm. long, gla- 
brate, deeply channelled along the upper side, the edges fringed 
with soft coarse hairs; axillary beard large and cremeus colored. 
Peduncles usually 3, more or less recurved from the upper leaf 
axils or terminal, 1.5 dm. long, green, angular and grooved on 
the sides, more or less light brown lenticelled; pedicel 2 to 3 mm. 
long, puberulent; calyx similarly fine seurfy with reddish scales, 
urceolate, 5 mm. high, nearly as thick below the middle, its rim 
roundly 4-lobulate; petals yellowish, glabrous, 4, short obovate, 
3.5 mm. long; stamens 8, equal; filaments 1.5 mm. long, much 
compressed, glabrous; anther sacs upon the outer curved portion 
of the thick irregularly shaped or oblongish connective; style 
terete, very thick, 4 mm. long, yellowish, bearing a flattened 
capitate greenish stigma; fruiting panicle green, 3 dm. across, 
nearly as high, the secondary branchlets freely rebranched from 
the middle, all the stalks somewhat compressed and shallowly 
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