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more arising from the same axil, paniculately branched, the branchlets 

 terete or subterete, the individual flowers in triads, sessile, with a pair of 

 deciduous ovate or lanceolate bracteoles at the base of each flower, and 

 showing either similar ones or their scars at lower forks: buds 3.5 mm 

 long, ellipsoid to obovoid, strongly apiculate, at first green, later becoming 

 purple from the apex downward, the apical 1.5 mm falling calyptrately 

 leaving a truncate margin; in anthesis the flower including the stamens 

 7-8 mm long; the remaining portion of the calyx nearly campanulate, 

 elongated to about 3 mm and 3 mm in diameter at the apex, extending 

 1.5 mm beyond the ovary; petals 4, white, free but falling with the calyx; 

 staminal disk thin; stamens numerous, the filaments 2-3.5 mm long, the 

 anthers 0.4 mm long, the apical gland not very conspicuous; style 4 mm 

 long; ovary 2-celled, many-seeded, the wall showing in section a definite 

 ring of glands. 



A tree 15-20 m high, its trunk about 25 cm in diameter, covered with 

 the branches by gray bark, the branchlets green, the nodes somewhat 

 swollen; leaves with petioles 12-20 mm long, the lamina chartaceous, 

 elliptic, oblong, elliptic-oblanceolate, oval or obovate-orbicular, 6.5-14.5 

 cm long, 3-7.8 cm wide, the base acutely acuminate and decurrent, the 

 apex narrowed into a short obtuse acumen; primary lateral veins on each 

 side of the midrib 12-20, slender, not crowded, easily distinguishable from 

 the rather conspicuous reticulated secondary venation, their apices forming 

 a distinct vein 2.5-3.5 mm from the margin, with a fainter external one; 

 upper surface of the leaves dark-green, under surface paler, both shining, 

 glandular-punctate. 



Luzon, Province of llocos Sur, Dolores, For. Bur. 1123 Klemme: Province of 

 Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 6160 Robinson (type), Merrill 2806; Antipolo, For. Bur. 

 410 Ahern's collector. Negros, Province of Negros Occidental, Inanayan, For. 

 Bur. 11191 Everett. Mindoro, Amnay River, For. Bur. 11448 Merritt. (See 



E. similis.) 



As shown by the remarkable nature of the calyx, this species closely approaches 

 E. operculata Roxb., and especially var. densiflora Koord. & Val., of neither which 

 nor of the other varieties have I seen any material. As contrasted with the 

 descriptions by Koorders & Valeton, Wight, and Duthie, it seems to differ by 

 having much smaller inflorescences, smaller flowers, shorter stamens, and the 

 leaf-venation appears to be different. 



Except by the young flowers it is almost impossible to distinguish this from 

 E. similis Merr.; but the latter has definite calyxdobes, which often persist 

 beyond the flowering stage, but are more often lost at that time. I know no 

 character to differentiate sterile material of the two species. The name "mala- 

 ruhat na puti," applied to this at Bosoboso, is given to E. similis at Lamao. 



62. Eugenia glaucicalyx Merr. in Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 



(1906) 50. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Merrill 3949, For. Bur. 811, 826, 

 1250, 2148 Borden, For. Bur. 6241, 1359 Outran. CTJIJON, lialsey Harbor, 

 Merrill 510, 626. Palawan, Dawara trail, For. Bur. 1438 Manalo. 



