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contracted apex forming, sometimes barely, an obtuse acumeD attaining 

 a length of lfi mm, the under surface of young leaves with a few hairs, 

 soon glabrous; all veins very slender and with the exception of those of 

 the youngest leaves difficult to count, usually only the three hasal pairs 

 conspicuous, the uppermost of these pairs forming the main submarginal 

 vein, the more apical veins nearly obsolete, or other leaves showing traces 

 of 3-5 others. 



Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Mount Ararat, Lohcr 2>,75 (type), distributed 

 as Dccaspcrmum pamonlatum: Province of Nueva Ecija, Cuming 1388, an ex- 

 cellent match. 



•5. Eugenia pasacaensis sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arhuscula: floribus axillarihus terminalibusque, saepius 

 solitariis, mediocriter pedicellatis, bracteatis; calyeis tubo turbinato; caly- 

 cis lobis 4, oblongo-orbicularihus, mox palentibus vel reliexis: petalis 4, 

 liberis; disco pubescente; staminibus numerosis: foliia subcoriaceis, lance- 

 olatis vel elliptico-lanccolatis, hasi acutis, apice obtuse aenminatis; renis 

 tttrinque 7 vel 8, teneris, marginem hand attingentibus. 



Flowers white, fragrant, axillary or terminal, solitary or in fascicles of 

 2 or ;!, the pedicels 6-12 mm long, their bases sometimes united for a 

 short distance, puberulent; the 2 bracteoles at the base of the flower 

 1-1.2 mm long, oval, obtuse, shortly villose; calyx-tube turbinate or 

 subcampanulate, 2 mm long, 3 mm in diameter at the base of the lobes, 

 1.3 mm in diameter at its base, puberulent; calyx-lobes i, spreading or 

 reflexed, persistent, oblong-orbicular, 2.7-3.3 mm long, and with the same 

 range of width, though some are longer than wide and others wider than 

 long, ciliate, the apices rounded; petals 4, free, broadly oblong, obtuse. 

 mm long, 3 mm wide; both calyx-lobes and petals veined, densely 

 glandular; disk as broad as the calyx-tube, pubescent; stamens numerous, 

 the filaments 3-4 mm long, minutely puberulent, anthers 0.5 mm long, 

 the connectives glabrous; style 6 mm long: ovary 2-celled, several-ovuled 

 A small tree or shrub 7 m high, with a stem 10 cm in diameter, the 

 branches covered with gray or light-brown bark, the branchlets glandular 

 and often pubescent, the vegetative parts otherwise glabrous; leaves with 

 petioles 1-2 mm long, the lamina subcoriaceous, lanceolate or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, 3-5 cm long, 14-22 mm wide, the has,' acute, the margin 

 rcvolute, the apex forming an obtuse acumen 4-7 mm long, densely but 

 not very conspicuously glandular on the under surface: primary lateral 

 veins on each side of the midrib 7 or 8, often somewhat obscure, the 

 second from the base forming a definite vein 1-2 mm from the margin. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, Pasacao, For. Bur. 101,61 Curran, growing on 

 limestone cliffs along the beach at an elevation of 100 m. 



This species is so close to E. bntcteata Roxb., that if my only knowledge of that 

 ipeciea were obtained from its descriptions, it would be impossible to separate it. 

 There is. however, in this herbarium, a Ceylon specimen of /•;. br+cteata, Tlurailrs 

 1586, and it shows not only a difference in the color of the pubescence, and longer 

 and narrower bracteoles, but the leaf-venation is very different, that of the Ceyh 



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