360 ROBINSON. 



5 cm long, the rachis and its branches purplish, subterete, bearing very 

 short wide bracteoles at its forks, pedicels 2.5-4 mm long: calyx-tube 

 6-8 mm long, 2.5 mm wide at the base of the lobes, thence uniformly 

 narrowed to its base; calyx-lobes 4, unequal, the larger 3.5 mm long, 5.5 

 mm wide, the smaller 3 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, rounded or barely and 

 very obtusely acuminate at the apex ; petals I, white, 8 mm long. <i mm 

 wide; stamina] disk thick; stamens about 100, the filaments 14-20 nun 

 long, anthers 0.8 mm long; ovary 2-celled, the lumen forming slightly 

 more than half the diameter of the ovary, each cell containing many 

 ovules: fruit including the persistent calyx-lobes nearly 3 cm long, ovoid, 

 thin-walled, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 



A tree, 12-15 m high, its trunk 12.5-20 cm in diameter, the branches 

 covered with reddish or blackish bark, which cracks when dry, that of the 

 ultimate branches grayish or brownish, together with the petioles and (he 

 inflorescence more or less densely covered with brown or purplish glandular 

 hairs: leaves with petioles 6-9 mm long, the lamina subcoriaceous, upper 

 surface shining, olivaceous, under surface reddish or brown and dull, 

 oblong, narrowly oblong, or elliptic, 7-13 cm long, 2.5-6.5 cm wide, acute 

 or very shortly acuminate and decurrent at the base, the apex usually 

 prolonged into a subacute acumen about 1 cm long; primary lateral veins 

 on each side of the midrib 9-12, submarginal vein indefinite. 



:Mi.\danao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River, Williams 2128. Basilar, Bi- 

 nuagan, For. Bur. 6111) Hutchinson. 



Closely allied to E. cinnamo'mca Vidal, differing not only by its acute leaf-tips, 

 but by the smaller flowers, and less distinct venation. 



Local name, Malatambis, Basilan. 



37. Eugenia longiflora F.-Vill. Noviss. App. (1880) 86. 



Syzygium longiflorum Presl Bot. Bemerk. (1844) 70. 



Eugenia marivelescnsis Merr. in Philip. Jour. Sci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 106. 



Jambosa Umata Morr. in For. Bur. Bull. (Philip.) 1 (1903) 43, pro parte, non 

 DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 287. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Cuming 1296: Province of Principe, Baler, Merrill 

 1060: Province of Isabela, Cauayan, Bur. Sci. 7978 Ramos: Province of Rizal, 

 San Mateo, For. Bur. 1133 Ahern's collector; Tanay, Merrill 23J,2: Province of 

 Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Lamao River, For. Bur. 618, 1522, 2922 Borden, For. 

 Bur. 2597 Meyer: Province of Tayabas, Piapi, For. Bur. 10129 Curran; Lucban. 

 Elmer 82>,1, 9089; Gumaca, For. Bur. 6073 Kobbc. Palawan, Dawara trail, For. 

 liur. 7J,31 Manalo; Iwahig River, Merrill 757 neither quite typical. Mindanao, 

 Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 912: District of Zamboanga, 'IVtuan, 

 Ahem 593. Neoros, Mount Silay, For. Bur. 72G6 Everett. 



The identification of Presl's and Merrill's species is made by description, added 

 to the fact that the type of the former was collected by Cuming. In all floral 

 characters it belongs to Jambosa, but the leaf -venation is close, as is more usual 

 in Syzygium. Cuming 1296 is listed by Vidal as a Syzygium, and the descrip- 

 tion agrees exactly with that number and with no other species of Eugenia 

 collected by Cuming. 



This species is almost identical vegetatively with E. lineata (Bfome) Dnthie, 



