A PRELIMINARY REVISION OF PHILIPPINE MYItTACEJE. oOO 



Davao, Ahern 834; Santa Cruz, Williams 2871. Balauac, Bur. 8ci. .'/ II Manguhat. 



Nkukos. Dumaguete, Elmer 9852. 



Local names, Macupu, Davao; Mangeopa, Masbate; Jamo, Tayabas. 

 Widely cultivated in the tropics. 



19. Eugenia whitfordii iMerr. in Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 

 (1906) 49. 



LUZON, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Whit ford .'/US. For. Bur. tl8t 

 Borden; Limay, Bur. Sci. 6169 Robinson. 

 Local name, Malaruhat. 

 Endemic. 



20. Eugenia fenicis sp. nov. 



Floribus caulinis, cymosis, tetrameris, pedicellatis, articulatis, ovario 

 1-3-loculari ; foliis ellipticis, basi acutis, apice caudatis. 



Flowers borne on tubercles on the stem, these sometimes also bearing 

 leafy shoots, cymose, 1-5-flowered, the total length of the fascicle includ- 

 ing the styles attaining S cm, the ultimate pedicels 7.5-15 mm long, 

 nearly terete and of equal diameter throughout, conspicuously articulated 

 with the flowers and bearing at the point of articulation a pair of incon- 

 spicuous bracteoles: flowering specimens unknown: fruiting calyx in all 

 2.3 cm long, urceolate, 1.8 cm in diameter at the apex of the tube, which 

 projects about 5 mm beyond the ovary, at the base forming a short 

 pseudostalk 3 mm long and of slightly greater diameter; calyx-lobes 4, 

 distant, unequal, the larger ? mm long and 8-8.5 mm wide, the smaller 

 3.5 mm long, and G mm wide; the staminal disk thickened, stamens fallen, 

 but judging from the scars probably about 300; ovary with exterior walls 

 1 mm in thickness, 1-3-celled, in the last case one cell as large as the 

 other two together; seed from a 1-celled ovary oval in outline, compressed, 

 8 mm long, 6 mm wide; style 3-3.5 cm long. 



A tree 8-9 m high, with a trunk 15 cm in diameter, covered with 

 smooth reddish-gray bark, the ultimate branches with grayish or brownish 

 bark, terete or at the apex somewhat angled; leaves borne on petioles 

 3-5 mm long and 2-2.5 mm in diameter, the lamina rather narrowly 

 elliptic, 9.5-18 cm long, 2.8-5.5 cm wide, acute at the base, caudate- 

 acuminate at the apex, olivaceous on the upper surface, grayish on the 

 under surface; primary lateral veins 9-12, along with the submarginal 

 vein conspicuous on both surfaces, but other venation hardly ever visible 

 on either surface. 



Babuyanes Islands, Camiguin Island, Bur. Sci. J t 065 Fernet. Close to E. ivhit- 

 fordii, as represented by Bur. Sci. 6169, which has much larger leaves than the 

 earlier collections of that species; distinguished by its caudate leaf-apex and 

 thickened petioles. 



21. Eugenia mananquil Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 290. 



Myrttts mananquil Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 421. [M. manananquil err. typ.) 

 Eugenia lobas Merr. in Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1906) 48, prob. 

 Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 857. 



