372 ROBINSON. 



beyond the ovary, the upper portion often more or less reflexed in fruit ; 

 calyx-lobes 4, unequal, somewhat distant, the larger 6 mm long and 

 6 mm wide, the smaller 1.5-2 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, all rounded; 

 petals 4, white, orbicular-ovate, 7-8 mm long, 6-7 mm wide; siamin;il 

 disk thick; stamens very numerous, their slender filaments 1.5-2.5 cm 

 long, their anthers 1.5 mm long; ovary 2-celled, with many ovules; style 

 2-3.5 cm long. 



A small tree attaining 15 m in height, the bark of the ultimate branches 

 gray: leaves with petioles 3-7 mm long, the lamina chartaceous or sub- 

 coriaceous, lanceolate, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 5-13 cm long, 2.5-5 cm 

 wide, acute and slightly decurrent at the base, the apex prolonged into a 

 short subacute acumen; lateral veins 8-12, always forming a definite 

 submarginal vein, and on the broader leaves often a fainter outer one. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, near Lagonoy, For. Bur. 10G51 Curran. Ne- 

 gbos, Province of Negros Occidental, Mount Silay, Whitford 1J,96 Whitford d 

 Everrett. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River, Williams 2110, 2189. 



Whitford 1612, from Gimagaan River, Negros, resembles this species in some 

 respects, but flowers are pedicelled, their attachment unknown, and while it may 

 possibly serve as a link with E. xanthophylla, it is more probably distinct from 

 both. 



46. Eugenia vidaliana Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. (1909) 584. 



[nfloreecentiie terminalibus, fructibus subglobosis, unilocularibus, mon- 

 ospermis, 2 cm diametro; calycis lobis 4, persistentibus, 2-6 mm longis, 

 4-5 mm latis; disco evoluto; staminum maculis numerosis: foliis petiolis 

 circiter 1 cm longis suffultis, laminis chartaceis, oblanceolatis vol ellipticis, 

 7-13 cm longis, 23-45 mm latis, basi acutis, apice breviter obtuse acumi- 

 natis; venis utrinque 5-8. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 91G1; Guinayangan, For. Jim: 

 12806 Rosenbluth, the latter in flower. The flowers are white, fragrant, the calyx- 

 tube is turbinate, or nearly funnel-form, petals 4, suborbicular, 7-8 mm in di&me- * 

 ter; filaments 8-10 mm long; style little exceeding 1 cm: leaves slightly wider 

 than in the type, the veins botb on this and the cotype 10-12: the inflorescence is 

 a terminal interrupted, leafy, trichotomous cyme, with the flowers solitary or in 

 threes at the apices of its ultimate branches, on pedicels 0.5-2 mm long or rarely 

 sessile. 



Local name, Macaasim. 



Endemic. 



47. Eugenia brunnea sp. nov. 



Kloribus paniculatis, pedicellis 1.2-2 cm longis, calycis lobis tubum 

 aequantibus vol superantibus, 4; petal is 4, separatim deciduis; staminibus 

 numerosis; ovario 2-loculari : foliis ellipticis ovatis vel ovalibus; venis 

 utrinque 9-11. 



Flowers forming terminal or lateral 3-7-flowered panicles 4-7 cm long, 

 the rachis and its branches obscurely 4-angled or terete; flowers borne on 

 pedicels 1.2-2 cm long, with no pseudostalk or a very short one; tube of 

 the calyx turbinate, 5 mm long, 7 mm in diameter at the base of the 

 lobes; lobes 4, nearly equal, the larger 6 mm long and 8 mm wide, broadly 



