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possible agrees with the specimens here cited, and is noted by Merrill u as also 

 agreeing with Bentham's type from Tobie Island. For some reason, E. benthamii 

 A. Gray is not listed in the Kew Index, but a species of that name is credited 

 to Berg as in Linnaea 27 (1854) 104, and other species of that author in the 

 same paper are uniformly so dated. No direct evidence is available here to 

 determine the question, but the indirect evidence seems to indicate that Gray's 

 name has priority by at least 18 months. In Hooker's Journal of Botany & Kew 

 Garden Miscellany 6 (1854) 285-287, there is a review of Gray's publication. A 

 simple calculation shows that this was the September number. From the tone 

 of the article, it is probable that the volume Mas reviewed promptly upon receipt; 

 from the statements that "the plates are not yet published," and "some of the 

 unpublished plates are in our possession," it is probable that no other delays than 

 those of transit retarded its receipt: further, the reference to the death of Wallich 

 in the June number, page 185, "The. pages of our Journal were already printed, 

 last month, when we received the melancholy tidings of the death [in London] 

 * * on the 28th of April" would indicate that the numbers were appearing 

 promptly, whether this refers to the number for April or for May. This, more 

 definitely than any other information we have yet received, would indicate that 

 Gray's volume appeared about July, 1854. On the other hand, a review of the 

 various articles in Linnaea, in the Botanische Zeitung 15 (9 Ja 1857) 27, places 

 volume 27 of that magazine, with Berg's article specifically mentioned, in the 

 year 1856. In the Botanische Zeitung 13 (7 D 1855) 869-871, a review of the 

 2Gth volume of Linnaea appears, written like the other by von Schlechtendal, 

 editor of Linnaea and coeditor of the Botanische Zetiung. In this, it is stated 

 that the first part of volume 27 had already appeared, and that it would at once 

 be followed by the others, the latter to contain Berg's article on the Myrtaceae 

 of South America, Brazil excepted. 



Local names, Anubing, Tayabas; Arahan, Macaasim, Malaruhat, Camarines, 

 the last also in Mindoro. 



87. Eugenia grisea sp. nov. 



Jambosa lineaia Merr. in For. Bur. Bull. (Philip.) 1 (1903) 43, pro parte, non 

 aliorum. 



Inflorescentiis cymosis, terminalibus vel subterminalibus; floribus 

 parvis, calycis tubo subturbinato, basi producto, apice brevissime lobato, 

 corolla calyptrata, staminibus numerosis; baccis depresso-globosis : foliis 

 ellipticis vel elliptico-oblanceolatis, utrinque acuminatis, nitidis, sub- 

 coriaceis; venis utrinque 20-25, teneris. 



Inflorescences terminal or in the axils of the upper leaves, 4-7 cm 

 long, usually trichotomously forked, the flowers mostly densely crowded 

 at or near the apices of the branches, the terminal clusters 3-9-flowered, 

 bracteoles very small or wanting : individual flowers in all about 5 mm 

 long, the basal 1-2 mm of which forms a pseudostalk; calyx in all about 

 4 mm long, about 2.5 mm in diameter at the apex, extending 1.5 mm 

 beyond the ovary; calyx -lobes not attaining 0.5 mm, rounded, inconspic- 

 uous; corolla ealyptrate, about 2 mm in diameter at the base, with a 

 vertical height of about 0.5 mm ; staminal disk present but small ; stamens 

 numerous, the filaments mostly 2-2.5 mm long, the anthers about 0.5 

 mm long, comparatively large; style about 3 mm long; the thin-walled 



"This Journal 3 (1908) Bot. 83. 



