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unequal, 3.5-5 mm long, 5 mm wide, ciliate; petals 4, free, white, 6 mm 

 long, 4-fi mm wide, rounded at the apex, ciliate; disk more or less pubes- 

 cent, of the diameter of the calyx-tube; stamens numerous, the filaments 

 4-5 mm lung, the anthers about 1 mm long; style G mm long; ovary 

 2-celled; fruit edible, subgloboee, 2.5 cm in diameter, crowned by the 

 persistent calyx-lobes, 1-eelled, 1-seeded; the testa horny, the cotyledons 

 lunate in outline, 13 mm across the chord. 



A slender tree, sometimes tall, the branches covered with gray bark, 

 the youngest shoots pubescent but soon becoming glabrous: leaves with 

 petioles 3-7 mm long, the lamina chartaceous, elliptic to orbicular or 

 obovate. (1.5-12 cm long, 3-5.5 cm wide, acutely acuminate at the base, 

 the margins slightly revolute, the apex contracted into a short obtuse 

 .acumen, glands widely separated, not conspicuous except on young leaves; 

 primary lateral veins on each side of the midrib, 7-9, their apices usually 

 forming three submarginal veins, the intervening venation usually in- 

 conspicuous. 



.Mindanao, Lake Lanao, (amp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 619 (type): Province 

 of Surigao, Surigao, Ahem 518: District of Zamboanga, Tetuan, Ahem 561. 



Somewhat similar to E. lucida Lam., but with shorter pedicels, smaller flowers, 

 ami much less coriaceous leaves. 



Local name, Hangos, Surigao; fruit edible. 



2. Eugenia loheri sp. nov. 



Floribus solitariis vel binis, axillaribus vel saepius supraaxillaribns, 

 hand magnis, mediocriter pedicellatis, pedicellis floribusque pubescenti- 

 bus: calycis tubo turbinate, lobis 4, quam tubus longioribus; petalis 4, 

 liberis; staminibus numerosis; ovario 1- vel 2-loculari : foliis brevissime 

 petiolatis, membranaceis, lanceolatis vel rarius subellipticis, basi acutis, 

 apice in acumen obtusum productis. 



FlowerB most often borne a little above the axils, solitary or rarely 

 paired, upon villose pedicels 5-10 mm long, having at their apices a pair 

 of ovate hracteoles 1 mm long, subacute at the apex, white-villose espe- 

 cially along the central line and margins: calyx-tube turbinate, 2 mm long, 

 3 mm wide at the base of the lobes, villose; calyx-lobes 4, oblong, 3-4 

 mm long, 2 mm wide, the apex nearly truncate but rounded, the margins 

 ciliate: petals 4, free, broadly oval to orbicular, 2.5-3 mm long: calyx- 

 lobes and petals veined and bearing fairly numerous, conspicuous, tubcr- 

 culate glands; disk occupying the whole diameter of the calyx-tube, pubes- 

 cent; stamens numerous, the filaments 1.5-3 mm long, the anthers 0.4 

 mm long, the connectives move or less densely villose; style 3 mm long: 

 ovary 1-celled or more often 2-celled, each cell containing several ovules. 



Habit unknown: the bark covering the slender branchlets grayish- 

 brown, tending to separate easily : leaves with petioles 1-2 mm long, the 

 lamina membranaceous, densely glandular, lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate 

 or rarely subelliptic, 2.5-5 cm long. 8-18 mm wide, the base acute, the 

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