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ROBINSON. 



terminal. The common name given by Blanco Malaruhat m i>ula, is often used 

 for A', liuxmehsit, and it is by no means unlikely thai lie confused the two closely 

 allied species. 



The synonym /•;. oymosa is merely based upon Villav's identification with it of 

 Blanco's species, to which it lias no close alliance. /■.'. cymoffl Lam. has not been 

 found in the Philippines. 



Endemic. 



24. Eugenia rubropurpurea sp. nov. 



Inflorescentiis cymoais, eaulifioris; floribus breviter pedicellate, tetra- 

 iii. 'i-is. mediocris, rubropurpureis : foliifl anguate elliptitis, basi Mentis, 

 apice breviter obtuseque acuminatis, venis utrinque 25-30. 



Flowers borne on very snort tubercles on the older parts of the branches 

 below the leaves, the cymes fascicled, usually 3-flowered, either distinct 

 as far as the tubercle or united with other cymes, the flowers articulated 

 with the pedicels and the latter once or twice articulated, the ultimate 

 pedicels 1.5-2 mm long, the entire fascicle not exceeding 3 cm in length, 

 but of greater diameter: calyx nearly campanulate, 1-1.2 cm long, 

 including a pseudostalk 2-3 mm long, the apex of the tube at anthesis 

 about 7 mm in diameter, bearing 4 broadly ovate rounded lobes 3-4 

 mm long; petals 4, orbicular or orbicular-ovate, 7.5 mm long, 6.5-8 

 mm wide, rounded at the apex, usually with many veins and several large 

 but not very conspicuous glands; staminal disk conspicuous; stamens 

 nearly 200, their filaments 1.5-1.7 cm long, their anthers versatile, 

 yellowish, lanceolate, 0.7-0.8 mm long: ovary inferior, 2-celled, or when 

 young with 2 false partitions at the base, each cell containing several 

 ovules; style 2.2 cm long or slightly longer in fruit, terete, slender. 



A small tree about 5 mm high, its trunk S cm in diameter, the baric 

 of the younger branches gray to grayish-brown, smooth or only slightly 

 striate; leaves with petioles 1-2 cm long and 2-5 mm in diameter, often 

 conspicuously annular-rugose when old, the lamina coriaceous, narrowly 

 elliptic to elliptic, 25-33 cm long, 5.2-10.5 cm wide, acute and somewhat 

 deetirrent at the base, at the apex shortly and obtusely acuminate; 

 primary lateral veins on each side of the midrib 35-30, with some of the 

 intervening veins almost equally prominent, the anastomoses fairly 

 numerous, forming a vein about 1.5 mm from the margin, and a less 

 conspicuous vein about 0.5 mm from the margin, the lower surface 

 minutely glandular-lepidote. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Bangs, For. Bur. 9888 (type), 9880, 



9398, 9465 Whitford & Hutchinson. Basilan, Isabela, For. Bur. '/S.io Hutchinson. 



25. Eugenia rubrovenia sp. nov. 



Inflorescentiis lerniinalibus, axillaribus, vel in ramis subtus foliis, 

 brevibus, paucifloris; floribus parvis, sesailibus: calvcis tubo turbinate, 

 lobis 4; petalis liberis : foliis breviter petiolatia vel subaessilibus, eharta- 

 ceis, ellipticis vel- elliptico-oblanceolatis, basi acutis. apice acuminatis; 

 venis utrinque 11-15. 



