VIII, c, 5 Merrill: Philippine Melastomataceae, II 349 
broadly triangular-ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long. Petals orbicular- 
obovate, 3.5 mm long. Filaments flattened, 2 mm long. 
Negros, Iruiogaan River, For. Bur. 4-298 Everett, June, 1906 (type), 
altitude about 150 m; Cadiz, For. Bur. 15034 Danao, March, 1908; Gima- 
gaan River, For. Bur. 7303 Everett, May, 1907, Whitford 1567, May, 1906. 
A species well characterized by its 3-nerved, not 3-plinerved leaves and 
comparatively large flowers. It is very close to the preceding, but other- 
wise is probably as closely allied to Astronia candolleana Cogn., as to any 
other species, although entirely different in venation and indumentum. 
17. ASTRONIA SUBCAUDATA sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 2 m altus ; foliis chartaceis, in siccitate pallidis, 
subtus lepidis brunneis parvis conspersis instructis, oblongo- 
obovatis, 6 ad 10 cm longis, apice longe acuteque subcaudato- 
acuminatis, basi angustatis, acutis vel decurrento-acuminatis, 
3-plinerviis ; paniculis quam folia brevioribus, subglabris vel 
leviter brunneo-furfuraceis ; capsulis depresso-globosis vel ovoi- 
deis, circiter 3 cm diametro. 
A shrub about 2 m high. Branches terete, light-gray, gla- 
brous, the growing parts somewhat brownish-lepidote. Leaves 
chartaceous, oblong-obovate, rather pale when dry, apex long- 
acuminate, the acumen sharp, subcaudate, the base gradually 
narrowed, acute or decurrent-acuminate, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 
4 cm wide, somewhat shining, the upper surface glabrous, the 
lower pale, with small, scattered, brown, lepidote scales which 
by no means cover the entire surface; nerves 3, the lateral pair 
leaving the midrib just above the base, reaching the apex, the 
transverse nervules slender, distinct, numerous; petioles slender, 
lepidote, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flowers unknown. Fruiting pan- 
icles shorter than the leaves, about 3 cm long, wider than long, 
nearly glabrous or somewhat brown-furfuraceous. Capsules 
depressed-globose or ovoid, about 3 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Infanta, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 9457 
Robinson (type), August 29, 1909, in forests, altitude about 800 m: Province 
of Laguna, Kelugan River, For. Bur. 19268, Curran February, 1910. 
Well characterized by its rather small, sharply subcaudate-acuminate 
leaves which are narrowed and acute or decurrent-acuminate at the base, 
and sparingly lepidote beneath with scattered, brown, small scales, about 
one scale to each ultimate reticulation. 
18. ASTRONIA GITINGENSIS Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 4 (1911) 1202. 
SiBUYAN, Mount Giting-giting, Elmer 12518 (type collection). 
The striking character of this species is its dark reddish-brown indu- 
mentum on its branchlets, inflorescences, and nerves on the lower surfaces 
of the younger leaves; the adult leaves are glabrous or nearly so. 
