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brownish. Leaves numerous, coriaceous, crowded, oblong-ellip- 

 tic, olivaceous when dry, the lower surface greenish, not punctate, 

 4 to 6 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the 

 acute base and to the slenderly subcaudate-acuminate apex, the 

 acumen blunt, about 1 cm long ; lateral nerves slender, crowded, 

 about 30 on each side of the midrib, the primary ones scarcely 

 distinguishable from the secondary ones, anastomosing with a 

 distinct submarginal nerve, the margins cartilaginous and dis- 

 tinctly re volute ; petioles 3 to 4 mm long, slender. Inflorescence 

 terminal, 2 cm long or less, with few branches and few flowers, 

 the flowers sessile, mostly in triads on the very short ultimate 

 branchlets. Calyx ellipsoid, not funnel-shaped, about 5 mm long. 

 Young fruit subglobose, about 1 cm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Kililibong, Bur. Sci. 2SS2U Ramos, 

 August 18, 1915, in forests near the summit of the mountain, apparently 

 at an altitude of about 1,000 meters. 



Manifestly very closely allied to Eugenia paucipunctata Merr., its leaves 

 in size, shape, texture, and venation being almost identical with those of 

 that species; they are not glandular-punctate however. The inflorescence 

 is quite different, being shorter, with but very few, larger flowers, the 

 calyx-tube ellipsoid, not funnel-shaped. 



EUGENIA SORSOGON ENSIS sp. nov. § Jambosa. 



Arbor alta, glabra ramis ramulisque teretibus ; f oliis oppositis, 

 oblongis ad oblongo-obovatis, subcoriaceis, in siccitate suboliva- 

 ceis, nitidis, haud puncticulatis, usque ad 11 cm longis, apice 

 acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, distinctis, 

 laxis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, e basi ramosis, subcorymbosis, 

 circiter 7 cm longis, floribus in triadibus dispositis, numerosis, 

 in alasbastro circiter 1 cm longo. 



A tall glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets terete, rather 

 smooth, pale-brownish. Leaves opposite, oblong to oblong-obo- 

 vate, subcoriaceous, 8 to 11 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, the apex 

 rather prominently but shortly acuminate, base acute, the upper 

 surface olivaceous or brownish-olivaceous, smooth and shining 

 when dry, the lower surface much paler, not glandular-punctate ; 

 lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, pro- 

 minent, somewhat brownish, lax, curved, anastomosing, the re- 

 ticulations lax ; petioles 5 to 8 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, 

 corymbose, branched from the base, up to 7 cm long and at 

 least as wide, rather many flowered. Flowers white, in triads 

 at the tips of the ultimate branchlets, shortly pedicelled, the 

 calyx-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, about 7 mm long, the lobes 

 4, short, rounded. Petals 4, free. Stamens very numerous, 

 elongated, slender. 



