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Leaves oblong, chartaceous, 5 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, 

 subequally narrowed to the acute or acuminate base and to the 

 acuminate apex, chartaceous, the upper surface olivaceous when 

 dry, conspicuously appressed strigose, the lower surface paler, 

 glabrous except for the sparingly appressed strigose nerves, 

 occasionally the primary reticulations with very few short pro- 

 cesses ; nerves 5, distinct, the inner pair reaching the apex, the 

 marginal pair evanescent above the upper two-thirds. Inflores- 

 cences terminal, usually 3-flowered, the pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm long; 

 bracts lanceolate, acuminate, strigose, 5 to 7 mm long. Calyx- 

 tube ovoid, 7 to 8 mm long, conspicuously penicillate, the setae 

 simple, spreading, 2 to 3 mm long, somewhat scattered; calyx 

 lobes 5, as long as the tube, narrowly oblong, setose. Petals 

 purplish, obovate, about 1.5 cm long, their apices sparingly peni- 

 cillate. Stamens 10, equal; filaments 6 mm long; anthers lan- 

 ceolate, 5 mm long, the anterior basal appendages nearly round, 

 glandlike, the connectives not at all produced. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, between Bangui and Claveria, 

 Bur. Sci. 33079 Ramos, August 29, 1918, on forested slopes near 

 small streams at low altitudes. 



This species is readily distinguished from its congeners by its 

 appressed-strigose branches, branchlets, and leaves, the latter 

 being nearly glabrous on the lower surface except for the 

 sparingly strigose nerves. 



ASTRONIA Noronha 

 ASTRONIA BRACHYBOTRYS sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, ramulis junioribus et inflorescentiis 

 leviter castaneo-f urf uraceis ; foliis coriaceis, rigidis, viridibus, 

 oblongo-ellipticis, minute verruculosis, 5 ad 6 cm longis, utrinque 

 subaequaliter angustatis, basi 3-nerviis, apice acuminatis; pani- 

 culis brevissime pedunculatis, 2 ad 3 cm longis, paucifloris, ramis 

 usque ad 1 cm longis ; floribus $ urceolatis, calycis tubo 2.5 mm 

 longo, lobis reniformibus. 



A shrub or small tree, the very young branchlets and inflores- 

 cences somewhat castaneous-furfuraceous, otherwise glabrous, 

 the branches and branchlets terete, rather slender. Leaves cori- 

 aceous, rigid, oblong-elliptic, green on both surfaces, usually 

 brownish-olivaceous when dry and minutely verruculose, 5 to 6 

 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base 

 and to the distinctly acuminate apex, base prominently 3-nerved 

 and with an additional very slender marginal pair, the latter 

 not more prominent than are the transverse nervules, the pri- 



