323 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY EVOL: I. Art: 
tached, leaving conspicuous scars, thick and rigid, lucid green, 
brown beneath when dry, entire margins inclined to turn 
under, oblanceolate, quite variable, the average 7 cm. long 
by 2 em. wide above the middle, apex rounded or obtuse, 
base gradually attenuate to the 1 cm. long petiole, glabrous, 
lateral nerves not visible. Flowers solitary, also alternate, 
usually arranged beneath the terminal cluster of leaves, but 
occasionally arising from the leaf axils, pendulous, yellow, 
deciduous; pedicels about 1 cm. long, glabrous, recurved near 
the apex; calyx united at the base, persistent, very rigid, 
5-segmented or with one or two additional small basal bracts, 
5 mm. long, imbricate, the segments elliptic; petals of the 
same number, united at the base, early falling out as a 
_ whole, the segments broadly oblong, with rounded apices; 
stamens many, inserted upon the corolla rim; filaments 0.5 
mm. long, glabrous; anthers at least 1 mm. long, oblong or 
broadest at the base, apex obtuse, the entire length grown 
to the filament; style tapering to the apex which is 2-cleft; 
ovary glabrous, conical, 2-celled, about 10 ovules in each 
cell: fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 7438, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. Rare in woods of Mount 
Banahao at 900 meters. 
Eurya myrtilloides n. sp. Rather slender erect trees, 
8m. high; wood white, moderately hard; bark dark brown, 
densely covered with similarly colored lenticels; branchlets 
very numerous, fastigiate or ascending, glabrous, mostly green, 
ridged, flexible. Leaves alternate, leaving prominent scars, 
numerous, subcoriaceous, dull green above, lighter beneath. 
elliptie or frequently obovate, obtusely tapering at the base, 
apex rounded, about 2 em. long, 1 em. wide across the 
middle, subsessile, glabrous, dotted beneath, margins suben- 
tire or erenately toothed and subinvolute; midvein promi- 
nent beneath, caniculate above, usually terminated into a 
minute callous brown point, lateral nerves barely visible; 
stipule persistent, smooth, brown, acute, 1.5 mm. in length. 
Inflorescence from the lower leaf axils, glabrous, 1 to 2 cm. 
long, ascending, usually with only 1 stalk but occasionally 
with 3 from the same leaf axil, single or corymbosely pan- 
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