X,C,3 Merrill: New Species of Eugenia 217 
dispositis; cymis terminalibus et in axilis superioribus, usque ad 
6 cm longis; floribus parvis, calycis tubo truncato, circiter 4 mm 
longo. 
A tree about 15 m high, entirely glabrous, the branches and 
branchlets slender, terete, reddish-brown, or the branchlets pale 
in color. Leaves opposite, ovate to oblong-elliptic or oblong, 4 
to 7 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, coriaceous, pale, of the same color, 
uniformly shining and glandular-puncticulate on both surfaces 
when dry, subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the 
distinctly acuminate apex, the acumen short or somewhat elon- 
gated, blunt; lateral nerves numerous, slender, indistinct, densely 
arranged, the primary ones about 20 on each side of the midrib, 
scarcely more prominent than are the secondary ones and the 
inter-reticulations; petioles 7 to 14 mm long. Inflorescence cy- 
mose, the cymes numerous, terminal and in the uppermost axils, 
up to 6 cm in length, many-flowered. Flowers mostly in pairs 
or in threes on the ultimate branchlets, the calyx purplish, the 
stamens straw-colored, the subtending bracteoles oblong-ovate, 
acute or obtuse, 1 mm long or less, deciduous. Calyx about 2.5 
mm in diameter, truncate, including the pseudostalk about 4 mm 
long, cup-shaped or somewhat funnel-shaped, the pseudostalk 
usually about 1.5 mm long. Calyptra 1.8 mm in diameter, 
consisting of two separate parts, the inner part quite free from 
the outer and readily separating from it. Stamens numerous, 
the filaments 2 to 3 mm long. Style 2 mm long. Fruit when 
fresh globose, dark-purple, smooth, the pulp edible, somewhat 
mealy, with a fair flavor, when dry 5 to 7 mm in diameter. 
PALAWAN, Taytay, Merrill 9224 (type), 9316, April 10 and May 22, 
1913, the former in flower, the latter, from the same tree, in fruit, in 
forests and along the margins of forests, sea level to 15 meters altitude, 
common. ’ 
The duplicates of the specimens were probably distributed as Eugenia 
saligna C. B. Rob., but the species is entirely different from that one. 
Its alliance is with Eugenia calcicola Merr. which it greatly resembles, 
but from which it is at once distinguished by its smaller flowers, longer 
petioles, its double calyptra, much shorter stamens, and quite truncate 
calyx, the limb not at all lobed or toothed. Dedicated to Father F. I. 
Alcina, author of a very early, but as yet unpublished manuscript on the 
natural history of the Philippines. 
EUGENIA EUPHLEBIA sp. nov. § Jambosa. 
Arbor glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis longe petio- 
latis, oblongis, coriaceis, in siccitate subolivaceis vel pallidis, 
nitidis, usque ad 14 cm longis, utrinque acuminatis, nervis utrin- 
que circiter 12, supra impressis, subtus valde prominentibus; 
