Fesruary 15, 1909] A Score or New PLANTS 581 
obtuse, base rounded; margins toward the base entire, cre- 
nately toothed or serrate above the middle; nerves 11 to 13 
pairs, ascending and quite parallel, anastomosing, prominent 
beneath, cross bars comparatively faint, reticulations obscure; 
petiole 1 to nearly 2 cm. long, densely gray scurfy. In- 
florescence always clustered along the twigs below the leaves, 
in small clusters arising from the leaf scars, not exceeding 
3 cm. in length; peduncle strict, scurfy, usually cymosely 
branched above the middle; pedicels more scurfy, 1 cm. long, 
but frequently much shorter, subtended by very minute brac- 
teoles, persistent; outer whorls of 3 sepals subglabrous, short, 
obtuse, unequal; the 3 inner ones subelliptic, 4 mm. long, 
glabrous; petals 5, white, obovate, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide 
above the middle, striate, united around the base, deciduous 
as a whole, apex broadly rounded and usually lobulate; fila- 
ments 1 mm. long, flattened, more or less united at the base; 
anthers 1.5 mm. long, bilobed at the base; ovary conical, 
glabrous; styles mostly 8, divided clear to the base, glabrous, 
3 mm. long, each terminated by a small capitate stigma, the 
upper portion curved or wand like; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 9209, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
In light jungles or woods bordering grassy glens at 2250 
feet of mount Banahao. 
Not S. whitfordii Merr. which has more glabrous. leaves; 
flowers subtended by foliaceous bracts; and calyx scurfy 
pubescent. Nearest to S. sparsiflora Elm., but our specimen 
has larger and fewer leaves with apices rounded, not acute; 
there are also minor differences in the flowers. 
MYRTACEZE. 
EUGENIA Linn. 
Eugenia incrassata Elm. n. sp. : | 
A widely spreading tree, 15 m. high; its main branches ; 
arising from below the middle, the ultimate ones rather nu- 
merous and forming bushes; wood whitish, quite hard; bark - 
gray and brown mottled; twigs glabrous, tough. Leaves op- 
posite, scattered Mon the branchlets, a, dark shiny green 
