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rachis short, dichotomously branched. Male flowers few, pink, 
the bracts orbicular, membranaceous, 9 mm in diameter, in pairs, 
bracteoles similar and a little smaller, deciduous. Sepals 2, in 
nearly mature buds reniform, somewhat cordate, 5 mm long, 6 
mm, wide. Stamens about 40; anthers obovoid, 0.8 mm long. 
Female flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter, the segments 5, ellip- 
tic to obovate, rounded; styles 3, dichotomous, the arms spirally 
twisted, 2 to 3 mm long. Capsules suborbicular in outline, 1.4 
cm in diameter, subequally 3-winged, broadly rounded at both 
base and apex, not at all truncate. 
LEYTE, Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 580, February 11, 1914, on trees in forests, 
altitude about 500 meters. 
A close ally of Begonia aequata A. Gray and B. lagunensis Elmer, but 
with rather longer petioles and thicker leaves than the former, and larger 
leaves than the latter, the capsules suborbicular, not at all truncate or 
subtruncate as in those species. 
MYRTACEAE 
EUGENIA Linnaeus 
EUGENIA WENZELII sp. nov. § Syzygium. 
Arbor alta, glabra; foliis subellipticis, coriaceis, utrinque suba- 
equaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice obtuse acuminatis, subtus 
verruculoso-puncticulatis, nervis lateralibus tenuibus, obscuris; 
inflorescentiis terminalibus, paniculatis, usque ad 8 cm longis; 
floribus in triadibus dispositis, sessilibus, circiter 1.5 cm longis, 
calycis tubo sub anthesin deorsum valde angustatis plus tarde 
incrassatis, margine 5-dentatis, dentibus obtusis. 
A tall tree, the trunk 2 m in diameter, entirely glabrous. 
Branches terete, brown, the branchlets grayish-brown, rather 
slender. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, rather pale when dry, sub- 
elliptic, 5 to 8 cm long, 3 to 4 cm wide, subequally narrowed 
to the acute base and to the short, broad, blunt acumen, the 
lower surface verruculose-puncticulate; lateral nerves very slen- 
der, obscure, the primary ones scarcely more distinct than the 
secondary, rather densely arranged; petioles 5 to 8 mm long. 
Inflorescence terminal and in the upper axils, cymose-paniculate, 
up to 8 cm long, the flowers sessile, disposed in triads on the 
ultimate branchlets. Flowers in anthesis slender, 12 to 15 mm 
long, the calyx limb cupshaped, 4 mm in diameter, with 5 rather 
prominent, blunt, thick teeth, abruptly narrowed into the long 
pseudostalk, this in anthesis 1.5 mm in diameter or less, after 
anthesis much thickened, 1.5 cm long, 5 to 6 mm in diameter 
in the upper third, gradually narrowed to the acute base. Petals 
