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extending about 7 mm beyond the ovary the basal 2 mm forming a 

 pseudostalk; lobes 4, rounded, 4-6 mm long, 8 mm wide, the inner pair 

 slightly longer than the outer; petals 1, suborbicular, 5-6 mm in diam- 

 eter; disk evident; stamens numerous, the filaments still only about 5 

 mm long, the anthers about 1 mm long; style 6 mm long, with several 

 rather conspicuous longitudinal grooves as in E. jambos and E. merriUi- 

 ana; ovary close beneath the base of the style, 2-celled, with several ovules. 



A tree, its dimensions not stated, the trunk with pinkish-gray bark, 

 the branchlets with grayish or brownish bark: leaves with rather stout 

 petioles 5-10 mm long, the lamina coriaceous, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, 

 oblanceolate, or oval, the base acute and decurrent, the apex forming an 

 obtuse acumen about 1.5 cm long; primary lateral veins on each side of 

 the midrib 15-20, with occasional well defined, secondaries, forming a 

 definite submarginal vein, the venation nowhere except the midrib very 

 conspicuous. 



Luzon, Province of Bengnet, Losod, For. Bur. 15873 Bacani. 



41. Eugenia jambos Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 470. 



/;. malaccensis Blanco Fl. l'ilip. (1837) 410, saltern pro parte, non Linn. Sp. PL 

 (1753) 470. 



Jambosa vulgaris DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 280. 



Luzon, Province of t'agayan, For. Bur. 18Jy,5, 18510 Alvarez: Province of 

 Rizal, Antipolo, Merrill 1673; Manila, Merrill J t l05. NEQE08, Province of Occi- 

 dental Negros, Gimagaan River, Whitford 1645. Panay, Cuming 16J t 8. Saxiar, 

 Cuming 11*03. 



Local names, Tampoi, Tampui, Tampul. 



Widely cultivated in the tropics. 



42. Eugenia merrittiana sp. nov. 



Floribus terminalibus, cymosis et corymbosis, haud pedicellatis, purpur- 

 eis, speciosis, tetrameris; calycis lobis inaequalibus, deciduis; disco stam- 

 ineo incrassato; staminibus numerosis, filamentis compressis; ovario 2- 

 loculari : foliis breviter petiolatis vel subsessilibus, oblongis vel ellipticis, 

 basi acutis decurrentibusque, apice breviter acuminatis; nervis utrinque 

 18-25, apicem versus inconspicuis. 



Flowers arranged in terminal corymbs or cymes 6-8 cm long, the 

 terminal flower sometimes the oldest, sometimes the youngest, the rachis 

 and its branches angled or terete, 1.5-2.5 mm in diameter, its branches 

 1-3-flowered with no proper pedicels or these 1 mm long, bractlets 

 wanting: calyx-tube in all 12-22 mm long, the basal 4-11 mm differen- 

 tiated into a pseudostalk, the upper portion campanulate, 8-9 mm in 

 diameter at the base of the lobes; calyx-lobes 4, very unequal; 2-7 mm 

 long, 4-7 mm wide, broadly rounded, deciduous; petals 4, 5.5-6 mm long, 

 6.5-8 mm wide, purple, rounded, conspicuously glandular; staminal disk 

 moderately thick; stamens about 150, the filaments flattened, about 0.4 

 mm wide, 12-26 mm long, the anthers oblong, 0.6 mm long, 0.4 mm wide; 

 style 1.5 cm long; ovary 2-celled with several ovules in each cell, ovarian 

 walls rather thick. 



