394 ROBINSON. 



2.5-4 mm wide at the apex, extending 2.5-3 mm beyond the ovary, the 

 4 rounded lobes inconspicuous, unequal, all less than 0.5 mm long, a con- 

 spicuous rib in uning from the apex of each lobe downward to the base of 

 the flower and often continued upward upon the corolla; corolla white, 

 calyptrate, about 1 mm in vertical height; staminal disk usually very 

 thin ; stamens numerous, the filaments 4-G mm long, the anthers 0.3 mm 

 long; styles 2-3.5 mm long, acicular, hidden by the stamens and rarely 

 reaching the level of the margin of the calyx; ovary 2-cellcd, with 

 numerous small ovules; fruit brown, ellipsoid, the largest about 2 cm 

 long and 1 cm in diameter, round in transverse section but conspicuously 

 l-angled. 1-ccllcd, 1-seeded. 



A tree 8-22 m high, its trunk 24-75 cm in diameter, the terete 

 branchleta covered with grayish or cinnamon-gray bark: leaves with 

 petioles 3-6 mm long, the cliaiiaceous lamina elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 5-14.5 cm long, 2.8-5.5 cm wide, the base acute and decurrent, the apex 

 contracted into an obtuse acumen ranging in length from 5 to 30 mm 

 both surfaces brown but the under the paler; primary lateral veins on 

 each side of the midrib 8-12, quite distinct but not prominent, sometimes 

 rather more numerous by the development of other veins; the main 

 submarginal vein usually originating from the third lowest of the lateral 

 veins and in the middle of the leaf about 2.5-5 mm from the margin, the 

 second lowest lateral vein originating a less distinct vein nearer the 

 margin, the lowest very faint; secondary veins frequent and frequently 

 anastomosing. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Antipolo, For. Jhir. J,12 Ahern's collector (type) ; 

 Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2150 Ahern's collector: Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, 

 Lamao River, For. Bur. 81.',, 1188 Borden, Whitford 3',J,: Province of Tayabas, 

 Atimonan, Whitford 673. Only the first of these numbers bears flowers, the 

 others with one exception are in fruit, but match well. Other very similar fruit- 

 ing material for the same localities has no ribs upon the fruit. Further, the 

 leaves of this species are an excellent match for those of the type of E. cin- 

 namomea, but the flowers are very different, 



86. Eugenia benthamii A. Gray Bot. Wilkes U. S. Expl. Exped. (1854) 520, 

 non E. benthamii Berg in Linnaea 27 (1850) 104. 



Syzygium nitidum Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2 (1843) 221, nee Eugenia 

 nitida Veil. PI, Plum. (1790) 208, nee Benth., nee Cambess., nee Duthie. 



Luzon, Province of Bulacan, Angat, For. Bur. 7>,) { 9 Curran: Province of Rizal, 

 Antipolo, For. Bur. 433 Ahern's collector: Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, 

 For. Bur. 2803 Meyer: Province of Tayabas, Pagbilao, Merrill 1981: Province of 

 Camarines, Libmanan, For. Bur. 895 VanWickle; Pasacao, For. Bur. 703 Van- 

 Wickle, For. Bur. 15792 Roembhtth. Mindoro, Abonabon, Merrill 2185; Pola, 

 Merrill 2237. Manosi Islands, WHkes Expl. Exped. s. n. Two collections, in 

 fruit, undoubtedly eospecific with one another (Elmer 6130, Sablan, Benguet, 

 and For. Bur. ',23 Ahern's collector, Antipolo, Rizal), may possibly belong here, 

 but have a much more definite submarginal vein. 



A note on the nomenclature is necessary. E. benthamii was based by Gray 

 on Bentham's species, with the citation of the Philippine specimen, and other 

 notes. A fragment of the Mangsi specimen is in this herbarium, and so far as 



