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branchlets very slender, the ultimate ones about 1 mm in diam- 
eter, pale or straw-colored, usually terete, sometimes slightly 
compressed. Leaves opposite, pale when dry, of the same color 
and somewhat shining on both surfaces,: oblong-elliptic, 6 to 
10 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute 
base and to the rather slenderly and sharply acuminate apex, 
minutely glandular-puncticulate on both surfaces; primary lat- 
eral nerves about 25 on each side of the midrib, slender, not 
prominent, scarcely more distinct than are the secondary nerves 
and reticulations, densely arranged; petioles about 1 cm long. 
Inflorescence cymose, lateral, from the branches of the second 
year’s growth below the leaves, shortly peduncled, about 5 cm 
long, one or two at a node, the cymes few, branches usually 
three, the two lateral ones more or less spreading. Flowers 
white, two or three sessile at the apex of each branchlet. Calyx 
funnel-shaped, about 7 cm long, mouth truncate, about 4 mm 
in diameter, with four, broad, short, obscure lobes, the lobes 
2.5 to 3 mm wide, less than 0.5 mm long. Calyptra about 5 
mm in diameter. Style 1 cm long. 
MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga (Olutanga Island), For. Bur. 13670 
Foxworthy, Demesa, & Villamil, May 20, 1912 (type), in forests at the 
edge of the mangrove, the roots apparently extending into salt water. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, Pasacao, For. Bur. 10486 Curran, May, 1908 
(sterile), on hills near the sea. 
A species belonging in the group with Eugenia perpallida Merr. and 
E. parva Merr., but distinguished from both, among other characters, by 
its lateral inflorescences. 
EUGENIA NITIDISSIMA sp. nov. § Syzygium. 
Arbor glabra circiter 10 m alta, ramis teretibus, brunneis, 
ramulis tenuibus, acute 4-angulatis; foliis lanceolatis, coriaceis, 
eglandulosis, usque ad 5 cm longis, basi acutis, apice tenuiter 
longe caudato-acuminatis, in siccitate pallidis vel brunneis, utrin- 
que valde nitidis, nervis lateralibus tenuissimis, obscuris; cymis 
terminalibus et in axillis superioribus, usque ad 3 cm longis; 
calycibus in siccitate glaucescentibus, 4 ad 5 mm longis, verru- 
culosis, breviter 5-lobatis. 
A glabrous tree about 10 m high, the branches slender, terete, 
reddish brown, the branchlets reddish-brown, rather sharply 
4-angled, very slender, mostly 1 mm in diameter or less. Leaves 
opposite, lanceolate, coriaceous, 3 to 5 cm long, 1 to 1.7 cm wide, 
usually rather pale when dry or the upper surface brownish, 
both surfaces strongly shining, very smooth, eglandular, base 
acute, apex long and slenderly caudate-acuminate, the acumen 
straight or slightly falcate, blunt; lateral nerves very slender, 
