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obscure, scarcely or not at all visible to the naked eye; petioles 
reddish-brown, 2 to 3 mm long. Cymes terminal and in the 
upper axils, 1.5 to 3 cm long, the axis and branches 4-angled, 
pale or brownish in color. Flowers white, mostly in threes on 
the ultimate branchlets, each with a short pseudostalk. Calyx 
4 to 5 mm long, about 1.7 mm in diameter, cylindric, narrowed 
below to the acute base, glaucous when dry, distinctly verru- 
culose, the limb with 5 broadly ovate rounded teeth about 0.6 
mm in length. Calyptra 2 mm in diameter. Stamens indef- 
inite, 5 to 7 mm in length. : 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 922 (type), June 25, 1914. 
BILIRAN, Bur. Sci. 18782 McGregor, June, 1914. NeaGros, For. Bur. 17342 
Curran and For. Bur. 21969 Hinolan, both sterile. 
This very characteristic species is in the alliance with Eugenia zeylanica 
Wight, but is distinguished at once by its smaller, prominently caudate- 
acuminate leaves and its distinctly 4-angled branchlets. Among the Phil- 
ippine species its alliance is with Eugenia glaucicalyx Merr., from which 
it is readily distinguished by the characters just indicated. It grows in 
forests from 3800 to 700 meters in altitude. In Negros it is known as 
manogobahi and manogobinlog. 
EUGENIA CAGAYANENSIS sp. nov. § Syzygium. 
Arbor 7 ad 10 m alta, ramis teretibus, ramulis distincte 
4-angulatis, griseis vel brunneis; foliis oblongis, coriaceis, niti- 
dis, usque ad 6 cm longis, obtusis vel acutis, haud acuminatis, 
nervis lateralibus indistinctis; inflorescentiis floribusque ut in 
E. nitidissimae. 
A tree 7 to 10 m high similar and closely allied to Eugenia 
nitidissima, differing especially in its leaves being obtuse or 
acute, not acuminate. Branches slender, reddish-brown, terete, 
the branchlets slender, prominently 4-angled, reddish-brown or 
grayish. Leaves opposite, oblong, coriaceous, shining, 3.5 to 
6 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm wide, the upper surface brown or brown- 
ish-olivaceous, shining, the lower much paler, apex acute to 
obtuse, not acuminate, base acute, obtuse, or even somewhat 
rounded; lateral nerves very slender, indistinct; petioles 2 mm 
long or less. Inflorescence paniculate, about 5 cm long, the ra- 
chis and branches 4-angled. Flowers in triads on the ultimate 
branchlets, each with a 2 mm long pseudostalk. Calyx rugose, 
narrowly oblong-obovoid, narrowed to the acute base, including 
the pseudostalk 5 to 6 mm long, the mouth about 2.5 mm in diam- 
eter, the lobes 5, somewhat reniform, rounded, about 1.8 mm wide 
and 1 mm long. Calyptra about 2.5 mm in diameter. 
“LUZON, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 21875 (type) Velasco, May 8, 
1914, in forests, altitude 300 meters, For. Bur. 17153 Curran, March, 1909 
(sterile), in fresh water swamps at Boguey. 
