ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, III. 347 
Eugenia brevistylis sp. nov. § Syzygium. ' 
Arbor glabra: inflorescentiis teminalibu^ vel in axillis superioribus, 
late paniculato-c-jmosis; floribus parvis, canipanulatis ; calyce truncato 
vel subtruncato; potalis saepius liberis; staminilms stjiisque brevibus: 
foliis longiusciile petiolatis, coriaceis, ellipticis, oblongis, vel ovalibus, 
basi acutis, apice acuminatis, venis confertis. 
Inflorescences paniciilate-cymose, terminal and sessile or peduncled in 
the upper leaf -axils, 5 to 12 cm long, 5 to'l2 cm wide, the lower branches 
4-angled, the lower usually 2 to 2.5 cm long to the first fork, the flowers 
usually in threes on the ultimate branches and when so sessile or subses- 
sile, when solitary with pedicels 2 to 5 mm long; bracteoles ovate, paired, 
very short; flowers when very small salver-shaped, at anthesis campanu- 
late; calyx 3 to 4 mm long, the margin truncate or with 4 or even more 
very short and obscure lobes; petals 4, irregular in shape, ovate, obovato, 
or oblong in a single flower, 1 to 1.5 mm long, free or somewhat united, 
rarely extending beyond the outline of the calyx; disk comparatively 
thick but nowhere free from the calyx ; stamens about 20, the filaments 
stout, 0.8 mm long or less, the anthers about 0.3 mm long; styles rarely 
exserted, less than 1 mm long; ovary 2-celled. 
Trees about 15 ni high, tlie trunks 30 to 45 cm in diameter, the bark 
of the branchlets light-gray; branchlets and branches terete: petioles 10 
to 14 cm long; lamina coriaceous, elliptic, oval, or oblong, 5 to 7.5 cm 
long : 24 to 42 mm wide, the base acutely acuminate and decurrent, the 
apex contracted into an obtuse acumen 5 to 15 mm long; veins crowded 
with little distinction between primary and secondaiy and inter-reticulat- 
ing, the former from 25 to 40 in number, terminating in a definite if 
slender vein less tlian 1 mm from the margin in narrower leaves, nearly 
2 mm from the margin in the widest, the upper surface shining, the 
under duller. 
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Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Subanginagayas, For. Bur. 12^59 Tarrosa 
(type). To this also almost certainly belong two other collections from the same 
district, For, Bur. 9192, Whitford d Uuicliinson, horn Port Banga, and For, 
Bur, 13228 Klemme, from Limaong, but there are curious differences. For, Bur, 
9192 has the calyx divided midway in its length, and the upper and lower halves 
are cuch swollen into a number (usually 8} of nearly globose lobes. The same 
condition is also found on some of the flowers of For, Bur, 15228, but in addition 
thorc are quit« typical Syzygimn fruits, nearly globose, 6 to 8 mm in diameter^ 
the calyx-rim almost truncate but on very careful examination showing very short 
lobes, not at all swollen. It seems, therefore, that the lobed fruits above described 
are merely pathologic states, as there is no other reason why these collections 
should not be identified with E. hrcvistylis, Tlie type has another unsatisfactory 
feature from the point of view of the deseriber. Small-sized flowers have often 
already lost their petals and stamens, much larger ones still possess them; the 
diagnosis was drawn from the latter. The closest alliance of E, hrerisfyUfi seems 
to be Syzygivm campanellum IVIiq., supposedly of Java, but the stems are terete 
and of different color, and the petioles are longer. The closest Pliilippine alliance 
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