350 ROBINSON. 



linn in diameter at the base of the lobes, projecting about 6 mm beyond 

 the ovarv; calyx-lobes 4, unequal, widely rounded, 1-2 nun long, 4.5-6 

 nun wide; petals 4 or sometimes 5, 6-8 mm in diameter; staminal disk 

 somewhat thick; stamens about -'{(H), their filaments 6-10 nun long, their 

 anthers oblong, 1 mm long, 0.6 mm wide; ovarv 2-celled. with few ovules; 

 Style at least 1 cm long. 



A tree 9 m high, with long drooping branches, its ultimate branches 

 covered by purplish bark, together with the peduncles conspicuously 

 4-angled and 4-winged; leaves opposite, borne on petioles 5-6 mm long, 

 the lamina coriaceous, olivaceous-brown and shining on the upper surface. 

 purplish-brown beneath, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 20-32 cm long, 

 3.6-6 cm wide, shallowly cordate at the base, gradually narrowed from a 

 short distance above the base to the usually falcate apex; veins on each 

 side of the midrib 50-60, not very close, intervening veins sometimes 

 Dearly as prominent as the primary, submarginal vein distinct, leaving 

 a leaf-border 1—1.5 mm wide with inconspicuous veins only. 



Palawan, Iwahig River, Merrill 760. 



11. Eugenia gigantifolia Merrill ap. now 



Floribus cymosis, pedicellatis. arliculatis, caulinis, tetrameris; foliis 

 suhsessilibus, oblanceolatis, permagnis, basi leviter cordatis, apice rotun- 

 datis. 



Flowers cy se, borne on small tubercles on the stem or older branches, 



1-9 flowers in each fascicle, the pedicels 7-13 mm long, articulated with 

 the flowers, when solitary themselves also articulated, terete or quadran- 

 gular, not or only slightly swollen at their apices, bracteoles paired, very 

 short and inconspicuous but comparatively wide at their bases: calvx 

 turbinate, in all 2.2-2.5 cm long, at anthesis about 1.3 cm in diameter 

 at the apex of the tube, at the base more or less differentiated into a 

 pseudostalk about 5 mm long, at the apex forming 4 unequal lobes, the 

 larger pair 6-7.5 mm long, 11-12 mm wide, the smaller 4-5 mm long, 

 8-10 mm wide, all rounded at the apex; petals 4, orbicular but truncate 

 at the base, 12 mm in diameter: staminal disk thick, conspicuous; 

 Stamens 400-500, the filaments 2-3 cm long, the anthers 1.5-1.8 nun 

 long; ovary 2-celled, with numerous ovules; style slender, tapering, 

 1.8-2 cm long, in fruit attaining a length of 4.5 cm: fruit nrceolate, 

 13 mm long, 17 mm wide, the calyx-tube forming a rim for about 4 mm, 

 the calyx-lobes more or less persistent; 2-celled. ils walls 1.5 mm in 

 thickness, each cell containing one seed; seeds compressed, orbicular- 

 ovate in outline, 1 em in diameter, their testa probably brownish. 



A tree 12-20 m high, with a trunk 20-10 cm in diameter, the leaf- 

 bearing branches 3- or 4-angled, the bark yellowish to reddish-brown; 

 leaves opposite or in whorls of 3 or 4, subsessile, the petioles only 1-2 

 mm long, but 6-!) mm width, becoming stout midribs projecting strongly 

 from the under surface of the lamina : the lamina coriaceous, ohlanceohite. 



