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A small, polygamo-dioecious tree 6 to 10 m high, nearly g-lab- 
rous; branches slender, terete, light-gray, glabrous, the younger 
branchlets, petioles and inflorescence minutely lepidote with 
small, appressed, pale-brownish, more or less decidious scales. 
Leaves oblong-elliptic to broadly oblong-lanceolate, firmly char- 
taceous, brittle when dry, 6 to 10 cm long, 1.5 to 4 cm wide, of 
about the same color, brownish-green, on both surfaces when dry, 
shining, entirely glabrous, or the very young ones minutely and 
deciduously lepidote, not pale, about equally narrowed to the long 
and slender caudate-acuminate apex, the acumen blunt, 1 to 2 cm 
long and often slightly falcate, and to the distinctly acuminate 
base which is prominently 3-plinerved, the lateral nerves leaving 
the midrib at from 4 to 8 mm above the base, the transverse nerv- 
ules slender, prominent, nearly straight ; petioles 1.3 to 2 cm long. 
Panicles terminal, pyramidal, about 5 cm long, the branches few, 
spreading, the lower ones 3 cm long or less, minutely pale brown- 
ish-lepidote, subglabrescent in fruit. Flowers small, 5-merous, 
staminate ones on some trees, perfect ones on others. Staminate 
flowers: Calyx cup-shaped, minutely lepidote, about 1.5 mm in 
diameter, minutely 5-toothed. Perfect flowers: Calyx lepidote, 
urceolate, about 2 mm in diameter, 1.5 mm long, minutely 
5-toothed, limb slightly spreading above the constriction. Petals 
somewhat obovate, 1.5 mm long. Ovary 2-celled; style stout, 2 
mm long. Capsules depressed-globose about 2.5 mm in diameter, 
nearly glabrous; seeds very numerous, 1.2 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, San Isidro, Phil. PI. 257 Ramos, June, 1910 
(type), distributed as Astronia r'olfei Vid.; Montalban, Loher 6276, Feb- 
ruary, 1906: Province of Laguna, Mount Banajao, For. Bur. 7903 Curran 
& Merrit, November, 1907. 
Well characterized by its entirely glabrous, concolorous, green, small, 
caudate-acuminate, prominently 3-plinerved leaves and its small panicles. 
14. ASTRONIA WENZELII sp. nov. 
Species A. viridifoliae Elm. simillima et valde affinis, differ! 
foliis prominente 3-plinerviis vix 3-plinerviis, nervis lateralibus 
ad basin acuminis cum costa coalita. 
A small tree about 7 m high, the trunk 8 cm in diameter, 
glabrous except the very young growing parts and the slightly 
lepidote inflorescence. Leaves broadly elliptic-lanceolate to 
broadly oblong-lanceolate, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 
green, of the same color and slightly shining on both surfaces 
when dry, 13 to 20 cm long, 4 to 5.5 cm wide, about equally 
narrowed to the cuneate base and to the slenderly acuminate apex. 
