xi, c, i Merrill: Plants from Sorsogon Province, Luzon 21 



crustaceous, brittle, crowned with the disklike stigmatic scar. 

 Seeds 1 or 2, hemispheric, about 1.5 cm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Lake Polog, Bur. Sci. 23 633 Ramos, 

 August 26, 1915, in flower (type) ; Mount Kililibong, Bur. Sci. 23479 

 Ramos, August 16, 1915, in fruit. 



The alliance of this species is with Garcinia eugeniaefolia Wall, and 

 G. gitingensis Elm., from which it is distinguished by its decidedly smaller 

 leaves which have revolute margins. Perhaps it is but a reduced form of 

 Garnicia eugenia folia, due to its habitat. 



RHIZOPHORACEAE 



GYNOTROCHES Blume 

 GYNOTROCHES LANCEOLATA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, foliis subcoriaceis, lanceolatis, usque ad 7 cm 

 longis et 2 cm latis, tenuiter acuminatis, in siccitate nitidis, 

 brunneis, nervis utrinque circiter 6 ; floribus numerosis, fasci- 

 culatis, pedicellatis, 4-meris, sepalis circiter 2 mm longis. 



An entirely glabrous tree, the branches terete, the young 

 branchlets dark-brown in color, smooth, shining. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, subcoriaceous, 4.5 to 7 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide, when 

 dry brown and shining, paler beneath, narrowed above to the 

 rather slenderly acuminate apex and below to the acute base; 

 lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, distinct on 

 the lower surface, and like the midrib and distinct reticulations 

 darker in color than the leaf surface; petioles 3 to 4 mm long. 

 Flowers 4-merous, very numerous, in axillary fascicles, their 

 pedicels 4 to 5 mm long, jointed in the middle. Sepals oblong- 

 ovate to ovate, obtuse to acute, about 2 mm long. Petals obovate, 

 fimbriate, nearly as long as the sepals. Style-arms 7 or 8, 

 radiate, short. Fruit red, fleshy, about 4 mm long, much 

 wrinkled when dry. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 23407 Ramos, 

 August 6, 1915, in forests. 



A species differing from Gynotroches axillaris Blume in its much 

 smaller, quite differently shaped leaves, and from G. parvifolia Merr., in 

 its entirely differently shaped, much narrower, prominently and rather 

 slenderly acuminate leaves. 



MYRTACEAE 

 EUGENIA Linnaeus 

 EUGENIA SUBCAUDATA sp. nov. § Syzygium. 



Arbor parva, glabra, E. paucipunctatae affinis, differt foliis 

 haud puncticulatis, inflorescentiis multo brevioribus pauciflori- 

 busque, floribus majoribus, calycis tubo circiter 5 mm longo. 



A small glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets terete, 



