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from that part of Malaya south of the Philippines will lead to 
the reduction of some of our forms, but the number of such 
reductions will probably be few. The herbarium of the Bureau 
of Science at present contains representatives of somewhat over 
150 species of extra-Philippine Eugenia, chiefly from the Indo- 
Malayan region, but it is rare indeed that Philippine specimens 
can be matched with any of these, except as indicated above for 
the cultivated forms. A few of our indigenous species are 
widely distributed in the Archipelago, but the great bulk of 
them are of restricted distribution, while many are apparently 
of very local occurrence. 
EUGENIA BLANCOI sp. nov. § Syzygium. 
Arbor alta glabra, ramis remulisque teretibus; foliis oblongo- 
ellipticis, tenuiter subcaudato-acuminatis, basi acutis, coriaceis, 
nitidis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, distantibus, vix prominen- 
tibus; inflorescentiis paniculatis, terminalibus, 2 ad 3 cm longis, 
e basi ramosis, plus minusve confertis; floribus in triadibus dis- 
positis, sessilibus, bracteolis nullis vel inconspicuis; calycibus 
infundibuliformibus, truncatis, circiter 5 mm longis latisque. 
A tall tree, entirely glabrous, the branches and branchlets 
terete, grayish or brownish, smooth, the ultimate branchlets 2 
mm long or less. Leaves opposite, oblong-elliptic, thickly coria- 
ceous, rather pale-brownish when dry, shining on both surfaces, 
8 to 13 cm long, 3 to 5.5 em wide, narrowed to the acute base 
and to the rather slender subcaudate-acuminate apex; primary 
lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, distant, ir- 
regular, not prominent, anastomosing 3 to 7 mm from the 
margin, forming a somewhat arched marginal nerve, the reticula- 
tions very lax and faint; petioles about 4mm long. Inflorescence 
terminal, paniculate, 2 to 3 cm long, branched from the base, 
the branches few, stout, reddish-brown, the flowers white, some- 
what crowded on the ultimate branchlets. Flowers sessile, in 
triads on the ultimate branchlets, the bractlets none or very 
obscure. Calyx-tube reddish-brown when dry, funnel-shaped, 
about 5 mm long, 5 mm wide at the mouth, truncate, with no 
evidence of teeth or lobes. Petals wholly united into a calyptra 
about 5 mm in diameter which falls as a whole. Stamens indef- 
inite, the filaments slender, 6 to 10 mm in length. 
SAMAR, Cauayan Valley, Bur. Sci. 17623 (type) 17492 Ramos, March and 
April, 1914, on damp forested slopes. 
The species is dedicated to Father M. Blanco, author of the Flora de 
Filipinas. It falls in the group with Eugenia robinsonii Elm. and E. 
brittoniana C. B. Rob., but is entirely different from these species and 
their allied forms in its very open leaf-venation. 
