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and eventually of about the same color as the upper surface; 
petioles slender, about 1 cm long. Panicles terminal, solitary, 
pyramidal, short, few-flowered, more or less lepidote with 
appressed or somewhat spreading, pale-brownish scales, the 
branches few, 1.5 cm long or less. Male flowers: Calyx some- 
what lepidote, cup-shaped, about 2 mm in diameter, obscurely 
5-toothed, the pedicels 1 mm long or less, subumbellately ar- 
ranged at the ends of the panicle-branches. Petals suborbicular, 
1.2 mm in diameter. Stamens 10, short. Ovary none. Perfect 
flowers : Pedicels arranged as in the male flowers. Calyx 
broadly urceolate-campanulate, about 2 mm in diameter, 2 mm 
long, the limb somewhat spreading, somewhat lepidote, obscurely 
and broadly 5-toothed. Petals orbicular, 1.2 mm in diameter. 
Stamens 10, short. Ovary 2-celled; style 2 mm long. 
Camiguin de Mindanao, old volcano, Bur. Sci. U682 Ramos, March 24, 
1912 (type). Leyte, mountains back of Dagami, Bur. Sci. 15290 Ramos, 
August, 1912. 
Well characterized by its comparatively small, long-acuminate leaves, 
which, when young, are minutely cinnamomeous-lepidote, ultimately be- 
coming quite or nearly glabrous, and green on both surfaces, and its very 
short, few-flowered panicles. It is most closely allied to Astronia acumina- 
tissima Merr., from which it dilfers in its indum-entum and in its very short 
panicles. 
22. ASTRONIA DISCOLOR sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta, polygamo-dioica ; foliis oblongo-ellip- 
ticis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 14 cm longis, valde acuminatis, basi 
acutis, distincte 3-plinerviis, supra glabris, viridibus, subtus palli- 
de griseis, densissime et minutissime adpresse lepidotis ; paniculis 
pyramidatis, 7 ad 9 cm longis, multifloris, rhachis ramulisque 
subglabris; calycibus cupulatis, extus dense lepidotis, circiter 2 
mm in diametro, obscure 5-dentatis. 
A small tree, about 10 m high, polygamo-dioecious. Branches 
terete, light-gray, quite glabrous, the younger branchlets also 
quite glabrous, not at all lepidote. Leaves oblong-elliptic, sub- 
coriaceous, 10 to 14 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, about equally nar- 
rowed to the acuminate apex and to the acute base, the acumen 
prominent, usually blunt, straight or falcate, up to 1.5 cm long, 
the upper surface glabrous, green or olivaceous when dry, some- 
what shining, the lower surface pale-gray, very densely covered 
with minute, indistinct, appressed, lepidote scales which are 
scarcely evident individually under a lens, the base prominently 
3-plinerved, the lateral nerves prominent, leaving the midrib at 
from 5 to 10 mm above the base, the transverse nervules promi- 
