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LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. Il; Art. 29 
Here and there isolated trees stand in humid woods at 
4000 feet. So far only known from the island of Negros 
although a very closely allied species has been collected on 
Samar. Named after Dr. ©. B. Robinson who kindly aided 
me in the determination of Myrtaceæ. 
Eugenia vidaliana Elm. n. sp. 
Slender erect tree, 15 m. high; branches many, the 
ultimate ones subpendulous; bark of the twigs brown, smooth. 
Leaves opposite, chartaceous, deep shining on the upper 
surface, paler beneath, when dry nearly black on the upper 
side and brown and sprinkled with minute black dots on 
the lower, oblong to obovate to oblanceolate or only the 
smaller ones lanceolate, the medium sized blades 14 cm. long, 
5 em. wide across the middle or just above this, the entire 
margins subipvolute, glabrous, abruptly acute at apex, base 
cuneate; petiole 1 cm. long, thick epecially at the base, 
also glabrous, caniculate on the upper side; midvein promi- 
nent beneath, grooved above; lateral nerves 6 to 9 on each 
side, brown, conspieuous beneath, much ascending, tips not 
united, reticulations very few and obscure. Infrutescence 
terminal, usually 2 or sometimes 3-branched from the base, 
3 to 7 em. long; few flowered toward the end of the pedun- 
cles; pedicels and peduncles glabrous, stout, the former about 
1 em. in length; fruits only 1 to 3 coming to maturity, 
3 to 5 em. long, about 3 em. thick through the middle, 
the base prominently pointed and suboblique, &mooth, terete, 
creamy white, the skin rather soft and dry, in the dry 
state densely spotted with flat circular dots, the apex bear- 
ing the calyx tube which terminates by 4 reflexed segments; 
seed or seeds ellipsoid, 2.5 cm. long, 2 cm. thick, trans- 
versely divided below the middle, horny, brown, the exterior 
rough and cinder like in appearance. 
Type specimen 9161, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
It differs from E. cinnamomea Vid. in not having leaves 
oblongo-laneeolata?'; neither are the nerves united at their 
ends; and panicle not many flowered. Named in honor of 
D. Sebastian Vidal y Soler. 
