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face castaneous, shining, the lower paler, obscurely glandular- 
punctate; lateral nerves 20 to 25 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, anastomosing with the equally distinct marginal 
nerves about 5 mm from the edge of the leaf, the reticulations 
not prominent; petiole very stout, 4 mm long or less. Flowers 
fascicled at the nodes below the branches, the calyx-tube 
broadly funnel-shaped, wrinkled when dry, about 6 mm long, 
the throat about 7 mm wide, shallowly 4-lobed, the lobes spread- 
ing, 2 mm long or less. Fruits rather large, ovoid, fleshy. 
when dry grayish and about 2.5 cm in diameter, crowned by 
the persistent calyx-tube and lobes. 
LEYTE, Tacloban, Wenzel 1484, April 5, 1915, in forests, prob- 
ably at low or medium altitudes near Tigbao. 
* This characteristic species does not appear to be closely allied 
to any previously described form. It is readily distinguishable 
by its vegetative characters; its 4-angled branchlets; and its 
shortly pedicelled flowers being fascicled at the nodes below the 
leaves. 
EUGENIA SESSILILIMBA sp. nov. § Jambosa. 
Arbor parva, glabra, ramis teretibus, ramulis acute 4an- 
gulatis, internodiis sursum incrassatis, 3 ad 5 mm diametro; 
foliis sessilibus vel brevissime petiolatis, crassissime, coriaceis, 
oblongis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, basi late rotundatis, cordatis, apice 
acutis vel acuminatis; nervis utrinque 18 ad 20, patulis, per- 
spicuis; floribus terminalibus, solitariis, tenuiter pedicellatis, 5 
cm diametro. 
A glabrous tree, about 6 m high, the older branches terete, 
the younger ones and the branchlets very sharply 4-angled, the 
ultimate internodes thickened upward and 3 to 5 mm in diame- 
ter. Leaves sessile or subsessile, opposite, very thickly coria- 
ceous, oblong, 8 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, base broadly 
rounded and distinctly cordate, narrowed upward to the acute or 
somewhat acuminate apex, the margins often prominently revo- 
lute; midrib somewhat impressed on the upper surface, very 
stout and prominent on the lower surface; lateral nerves spead- 
ing at right angles, 18 to 20 on each side of the midrib, promi- 
nent, straight, anastomosing with the equally prominent mar- 
ginal nerve about 3 mm from the edge of the leaf. Flowers 
terminal, solitary, white, about 5 cm in diameter, the calyx-tube 
obconic, about 1 cm long; lobes broadly ovate, rounded, about 7 
mm long and wide; pedicels slender, jointed, with the base of 
the calyx-tube about 2.5 cm long. 
