396 ROBINSON. 



ovary 2-eelled, with several ovules: fruit brown, depressed-globose, 15 

 mm long, 17-18 mm wide, crowned by the truncate neck-like free part 

 of the calyx, 1-celled, rarely 2-celled, each cell containing a single seed 

 1 cm in diameter. 



A tree attaining at least a height of 8 m and a trunk-diameter of 30 

 cm, the bark scaly, yellowish,, that of the terete or nearly terete ultimate 

 branches gray or somewhat pinkish-gray: leaves with petioles 6—14 mm 

 lung, the lamina hardly more than chartaceous though by the eye alone 

 it would be considered coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, 6.5—13 

 cm long. 3-5.5 cm wide, the base acuminate and decurrent on the petiole, 

 the apex contracted into an obtuse acumen 5-10 mm long, the upper 

 surface of the lamina olivaceous and shining, the lower surface paler and 

 duller; primary lateral veins on each side of the midrib 20-25, usually 

 difficult to count accurately owing to intervening veins of nearly equal 

 prominence and to irregular anastomoses, all of the veins thin and of 

 nearly equal prominence on both surfaces, forming a definite vein about 

 8 mm from the margin. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, San Vicente, For. Bur. )290 Klemme: Province 

 of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2862 (type). 325.) them's collector, Merrill 1821. 

 (Iiimaras, Nagaba, For. Bur. 303 (himmUl. Tinago, Ahem .)29, ))3. Mindanao, 

 District Province of Surigao, Surigao, Ahem 516. 



A species apparently very closely related to Eugenia jumboloidcs Koord. & Val., 

 differing most notably in tbe venation of the leaves. 



Local names. Bansalaguiii, Rizal; Hutadtad. (iuimaras; Lagilagi, Dinagat and 

 Surigao; Canomay; Tinago. 



88. Eugenia mimica Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 212. 



Two rather dissimilar series are represented by the plants here considered to 

 belong to this species. That agreeing with the nomenclatorial type has leav.s 

 usually more than four times as long as wide, 23-85 mm long, 7-22 mm wide, 

 and their apex is comparatively broadly acuminate or merely old use; the other 

 series has thinner, larger, comparatively wider leaves, 7-14 cm long, 2-fi.5 cm 

 wide. In spite of this great range in leaf-outline, which is from linear-oblan- 

 eeolate to suborbicular, the transition from the one extreme to the other passes 

 through such gradual stages that it seems obligatory to include them all within 

 the limits of the one species. It is nol unlikely that these forms represent ecologic 

 types, the lirst inhabiting river margins, the latter growing on ridges, dills, or 

 in open forest. 



Form 1. Leaves narrow. F. utimica proper. 



LUZON, Province of Pangasinan, Cuming 958: Province of Bulacan, Angat, 

 For, Bur, lll'i'i, 11158 Aguilur; Norzagaray, Yoder 199, Fur. Bur. 7168 Curran: 

 Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 3)31 Allan's collector; Montalban, Merrill 503): 

 Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 1)38 Ramos. Mixdoko, Iriron, For, Bur. 88)9 Mcrriit. 



Form 2. Leaves wider. 



Lizon, Province of Pampanga. Linga River, For, Bur. 5781 Curran: Province of 

 Zambales, Bagaac, For. Bur. 386 Maule: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Williams 

 381: Province of Bulacan, Angat, for, Bur. 11256 Klcmmc: Province of Rizal, 

 Antipolo, For. Bur. )10 Ahcrn's collector: Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 10331 

 Curran: Province of Camarines, Pasacao, Ahem 56, 77. Mixdoko. Cuming 1)98: 



