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coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, up to 40 em in length, 2 to 3 
cm wide, pale and shining when dry, subequally narrowed at 
both ends, base attenuate, apex apparently acuminate, margins 
recurved; lateral nerves at least 40 on each side of the midrib, 
impressed on the upper surface, prominent beneath, somewhat 
spreading, slightly curved, anastomosing with the distinct sub- 
marginal nerve, reticulations obsolete on the upper surface, 
prominent on the lower; petioles stout, reddish-brown, rugose, 
about 5 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, slender, 3-flowered, 
long-peduncled, the inflorescences solitary or in pairs, about 
15 cm long, the peduncles 10 to 12 em long. Buds obovoid, 
about 1.5 cm long, rounded, narrowed below, dark-brown when 
dry. 
MINDANAO, Lanao District, Libas, For. Bur. 24060 Acuna, 
May 29, 1916, locally known as malasugut. 
A most striking species on account of its 4-angled stems; 
its very long, narrow, coriaceous leaves; and _ its slender, 
elongated, terminal, 3-flowered inflorescences. It is allied to 
Eugenia ramosii C. B. Rob., from which it is distinguished by its 
narrower leaves and longer peduncles. 
EUGENIA ATTENUATIFOLIA sp. nov. § Syzygium. 
Arbor glabra, circiter 10 m alta, ramis ramulisque brunneis, 
teretibus, vel ramulis obscure 4-angulatis; foliis coriaceis, in 
siccitate pallidis, nitidis, subtus punctatis, glandulis jam oculo 
nudo distinctis, ovato-lanceolatis, usque ad 9 cm longis, basi 
acutis, apice tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, nervis primariis utrin- 
que circiter 8, tenuibus, subtus, distinctis ; infructescentiis termi- 
nalibus, corymbosis, 6 ad 9 cm longis, e basi ramosis, ramulis 
sulcatis vel angulatis; fructibus globosis ad obovoideis, usque 
ad 8 mm diametro, sessilibus vel breviter pedicellatis. 
A glabrous tree, about 10 m high, the branches brown or 
reddish-brown, striate, terete, the cortex somewhat stringy, the 
branchlets of the same color, smooth, usually somewhat 4- 
angled. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, pale and 
Shining when dry, 6 to 9 cm long, 2.3 to 3 cm wide, base acute 
or somewhat acuminate, apex slenderly caudate-acuminate, the 
acumen acute, up to 2 cm in length, the lower surface distinctly 
punctate, the glands distinctly visible to the naked eye; primary 
lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, slender but 
distinct on the lower surface, the reticulations not prominent, 
anastomosing directly with the nearly straight or slightly 
arcuate marginal nerves 2 to 3 mm from the edge of the leaf; 
