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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, IIocos 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-furfuraceis ; 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 S 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- 
