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at the base; petals and stamens unknown; staminal disk well developed; 

 style slender, attaining a length of 4 cm; ovary containing 2 cells each 

 with several ovules : fruit 2 cm in diameter, globose not including the 

 persistent free portion of the calyx-tube or the more or less deciduous 

 lobes, 2-celled with one seed in each. 



A tree 6-9 m high, its trunk 10-12.5 cm in diameter, covered with 

 pinkish-gray bark, the ultimate branchlets terete, somewhat flattened at 

 the enlarged nodes, the ultimate ones sometimes slightly angled, covered 

 with bark varying in color from gray to brown; leaves borne on petioles 

 1-4 mm long, the lamina chartaceous, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, 10-20 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, the base cordate or 

 merely obtuse, the apex acuminate, straight or subfalcate ; primary lateral 

 veins on each side of the midrib 10-12, curved-ascending, at least some, 

 usually about 5, of the basal veins connected with the main submarginal 

 vein by slight anastomoses only but contributing to form one or more 

 inconspicuous veins lying without the main submarginal vein but not 

 prolonged to the apex. 



Mindanao, District of Davao, Santa Cruz, Williams 2748 (type) : District of 

 Zamboanga, San Ramon, HalUcr s. n.; Saccal Island, For. Bur. 6113 Hutchinson. 



Wood utilized as material in house-building on Basilan, where it is known as 

 Tambistambis or Gulagan. 



30. Eugenia crassipes sp. nov. 



Jambosa vulgaris Merr. in For. Bur. Bull. (Philip.) 1 ( 1903) 43, non DC. Prodr. 

 3 (1828) 286. 



Eugenia javanica ? Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 105, non Lam. 

 Encycl. 3 (1789) 200. 



Local name, Calubcob, Bataan. 



Inflorescentiis terminalibus, pedunculis pedicellisque crassis, congestis 

 vel subcongestis, floribus admodum magnis, tetramcris : foliis ellipticis vel 

 lanceolatis, basi obtusis, baud cordatis, rarius subacutis; venis utrinque 

 10-12. 



Cymes terminal, the peduncles and pedicels stout, in all less than 2 

 cm long to the base of the terminal flower, 5-nowered, the pedicels 4-8 

 mm long : calyx-tube turbinate, in length 1 cm or slightly more to the 

 base of the lobes and there 10-13 mm in diameter; calyx-lobes 4, 3-5 

 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, broadly rounded; petals 4, white, suborbicular, 

 8 mm in diameter; disk well developed; stamens very numerous, the 

 filaments about 1.5 cm and the narrow anthers about 1.5 mm long; style 

 3.5 cm long; ovary 2-celled. 



The type described as a small tree 3 m high with a trunk 3 cm in 

 diameter, the branchlets terete or flattened toward the apex covered with 

 gray or yellowish-gray bark : leaves with petioles 2-3 mm long, the lamina 

 chartaceous, elliptic or lanceolate, 16 to at least 20 cm long, 6-9 cm wide, 

 the base not cordate, obtuse or subacute ; primary lateral veins on each 



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