376 ROBINSON. 



foliis ellipticis vel elliptico-oblanceolatis, basi acutis vel subacutis, apice 

 breviter obtuse acuminatis; venis utrinque 8-10. 



Inflorescences at the apices of the branches, sometimes three-forked 

 from their base, more often the middle fork replaced by a short leaf- 

 bearing branch, many times branched but the flowers nearly level along 

 the top, G or 7 articulations intervening between the apex of the stem and 

 the individual flowers, the latter always with pedicels, these often twice 

 or thrice articulated, each articulation except the lowest with a pair of 

 very short but wide rounded and conspicuous bractcoles nearly encircling 

 the pedicels: flowers when dry yellowish or yellowish and purplish except 

 the whitish anthers; calyx-tube turbinate, 4-5 mm long, 4 mm wide at 

 the base of the lobes; lobes 4, 1.5-2.5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, rounded : 

 petals 4, deciduous, apparently falling calyptrately at some times but 

 certainly separating at others, 7-8 mm in diameter; disk present, its rim 

 free from the calyx ; stamens about 60, the filaments flat, wide, more or 

 less united at the base, 8-12 mm long; anthers broad, about 1 mm long; 

 style about 1 cm long; ovary 2-celled. 



A tree 15 m high, its trunk 25 cm in diameter, the branchlets covered 

 with brownish bark : leaves with petioles 5-8 mm long, the lamina coria- 

 ceous, elliptic-oblanceolatc or elliptic, 6-8.5 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide, 

 narrowed toward the base, there often more or less rounded but meeting 

 the petiole at an acute angle, the margins rcvolute, the apex forming a 

 short obtuse acumen; primary lateral veins on each side of the midrib 

 8-10, forming two or three definite submarginal veins. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Sapuan, at an elevation of 1800 in, For. Bur. 

 18355 Alvarez. 



N. v., (Igorot), Silda. 



54. Eugenia hutchinsonii Merr. sp. nov. 



Inflorescentiis axillaribus, capitatis, capitulis racemose vel spicatim 

 dispositis: calycis tubo subturbinato, basi producto, lobis 4, triangulari- 

 ovatis; petalis 4, liberie; staminibus numerosis: foliis chartaceis, oblance- 

 olatis vel ellipticis, basi acutis, apice anguste acuminatis ; vein's utrinque 

 23-35. 



Inflorescences in the upper axils, 5-7 cm long, the individual flowers 

 sessile in heads of three or more, the heads sessile or more often pedicelled 

 along the 4-angled axis of the inflorescence: calyx-tube about 7 mm long, 

 of which the basal 3-1 mm forms a definite pseudostalk, 5 mm in diameter 

 at the base of the lobes; calyx-lobes 4, not very unequal, triangular-ovate, 

 2-3 mm long, 2-3 mm wide at the base; petals 4, free but apparently 

 sometimes falling together, white, suborbieular, 3 mm in diameter; sta- 

 mens numerous, the filaments 3-1 mm long, the anthers 0.4 mm long; 

 style over 4 mm long ; ovary 2-celled, with several ovules. 



A tree about 8 m high, the branchlets 4-angled, and narrowly winged. 

 covered with reddish-brown bark; leaves with petioles 6-10 mm long. 



