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rounded; petals 4, suborbicular, 8 mm in diameter; staminal disk thick- 

 ened; stamens very numerous, their filaments slender, 1-1.5 cm long, 

 their anthers oblong, 0.7 mm long; style about 2.5 cm long; ovary 2-celled, 

 its lumen very short, and only one-third of the total width of the ovary: 

 fruit globose, 2 cm in diameter, crowned by the persistent erect or in- 

 curved calyx-lobes and the base of the style, its surface marked by many 

 obscure longitudinal lines. 



A tree of unknown size, the bark of the ultimate branches gray, or on 

 innovations darker; leaves borne on petioles 5-11 mm long, the lamina 

 coriaceous or subcoriaceous, when dry brown or olivaceous, oval, elliptic, 

 or ovate, 5.5-12 cm long, 2,7-6.3 cm wide, gradually or abruptly acute 

 at the base, decurrent on the petiole, acuminate at the apex; primary 

 lateral veins on each side of the midrib 9-11, irregular near the margins, 

 forming a definite submarginal vein at least beyond the middle of the 

 leaf, or through incomplete anastomosis two or three submarginal veins. 



Luzon, Province of Principe, Baler, Merrill 1069 bis (type), 1088. 



Local names, Malaruhat, Malabayabas. 



48. Eugenia squamifera sp. nov. 



Cymis terminalibus vel lateralibus, 1-7-floris, floribus mediocriter 

 pedicellatis, magnis, tetrameris : foliis lanceolatis vel oblongis, basi acutis, 

 apice breviter obtuseque acuminatis; venis utrinque 9-12: nodis saepe 

 squamiferis. 



Cymes terminal or lateral, 4-5 cm long, 1-7-flowered, the peduncles and 

 pedkels terete, the latter 5-12 mm long, with a pair of small bracteoles 

 at the articulation with the pseudostalk, and several purplish linear- 

 lanceolate acute scales 3-5.5 mm long at the base of the peduncle or 

 sometimes at the insertion of the pedicels or at the forks of the branchlets 

 or in the axils of the leaves : calyx-tube turbinate, at the base narrowed 

 into a pseudostalk 2 mm long, in all 1.5-2 cm long and about 1.5 cm in 

 diameter at the base of the lobes; calyx-lobes 4, unequal, the larger 4-6 

 mm long, 7-8 mm wide, the smaller 2-3 mm long, 6 mm wide ; petals 

 4, white, obovate-orbicular, 9 mm in diameter, acuminate at the apex or 

 irregular in shape and smaller ; staminal disk thick ; stamens about 600, 

 their filaments 14-21 mm long, their anthers 1.4 mm long; style 2.5 cm 

 long; ovary thick-walled, 2-celled, with few ovules. 



A tree 4 m high, its trunk-diameter 10 cm, branches covered with gray 

 or purplish-brown bark, that of the ultimate ones smooth and shining: 

 leaves with stout purplish petioles 3-6 mm long, the lamina coriaceous, 

 olivaceous on the upper surface, pale-green beneath, lanceolate to oblong 

 or elliptic, 9-18 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, very shortly acuminate and de- 

 current at the base, the apex shortly and obtusely acuminate; primary 

 lateral veins on each side of the midrib 9-12, widely separated, in the 

 middle of the leaf 2 cm apart or even more. 



Luzon-, Province of Zambales, Mount Balingbuaya, For. Bur. 82J t 3 Curran d 

 Merritt. 



