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ad 8 cm longis, paniculatis; fructibus globosis, albidis, edulis, 

 in siccitate circiter 6 mm diametro. 



A tall glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets slender, 

 terete, brownish, rather smooth. Leaves coriaceous, oblong- 

 obovate to broadly oblong-oblanceolate, 4 to 5.5 cm long, 1.5 to 

 2.5 cm wide, the apex abruptly and shortly acuminate, gradually 

 narrowed in the lower two-thirds to the acute or cuneate base, 

 the upper surface olivaceous when dry, shining, the lower paler 

 and distinctly glandular-punticulate with numerous dark-purplish 

 glands ; lateral nerves very numerous, slender, indistinct, densely 

 arranged; petioles about 5 mm long. Panicles terminal, 6 to 8 

 cm long, the branches few, the lower ones up to 5 cm long, 

 spreading-ascending, each bearing three secondary branches 

 above the middle. Calyx immediately following anthesis some- 

 what urceolate, truncate, about 3 mm long. Fruit white, fleshy, 

 edible, when dry rather hard, pale, globose, about 6 mm in 

 diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Bulusan, Bur. Set. 23672 Ramos, 

 September 4, 1915, in damp forests. 



A characteristic species in the group with small flowers, terminal in- 

 florescence, and densely nerved leaves. It does not appear, however, to 

 be especially closely allied to any of the previously described Philippine 

 forms. 



EUGENIA DURA sp. nov. § Syzygium. 



Arbor alta glabra ramis ramulisque teretibus vel ramulis 

 leviter compressis ; f oliis oppositis, coriaceis, ellipticis ad oblongo- 

 ellipticis, usque ad 9 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, 

 apice breviter subcaudato-acuminatis, basi acutis, nitidis, in 

 siccitate olivaceo-brunneis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis primariis 

 utrinque circiter 15, tenuibus, margine revolutis; inflorescentiis 

 terminalibus, corymbosis, floribus ut videtur in triadibus dis- 

 positis ; fructibus in siccitate valde induratis, oblongo-ellipsoideis 

 vel junioribus cylindraceis, usque ad 2.5 cm longis, brunneo- 

 purpureis. 



A tall glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets terete, 

 brownish, smooth, or the slender branchlets somewhat com- 

 pressed. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 

 7 to 9 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the 

 acute base and to the rather slender and short subeaudate- 

 acuminate apex, the acumen up to 1 cm long, blunt, when dry 

 the upper surface strongly shining, very smooth, olivaceous- 

 brownish, the lower surface much paler, not punctate; lateral 

 nerves indistinct, the primary ones about 15 on each side of 



