327 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Arr. 16 
brous; stigma a large brown fleshy disk about 1.5 mm. in 
diameter. 
Type specimen 8985, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
‘of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. In ravines along the trail 
from Sablan to the barrio of Yagyadan. The slender ultimate 
drooping branchlets festoon the shrubberies over which it 
forms tangled masses. Not rare but only observed in this 
locality. 
MYRTACEAE. 
Eugenia succulenta n.sp.— Erect tree, 18 m. high, with 
a 5 dm. thick bole; branches comparatively short, bushy, 
rigid; branchlets smooth, grayish, crooked and gnarly. Leaves 
opposite, separating while drying, coriaceous, lucid green 
above, glabrous, numerous, flat or conduplicate upon the 
upper side, the medium blades 9 em. long, 4 cm. wide 
across the middle, oblong, apex abruptly terminated by an 
obtuse point, base subeuneate or obtuse; petiole 5 mm. long, 
stout, glabrous, dark brown when dry, nerves not prominent 
beneath, 5 to 7 on each side, ascending and submarginally 
united. Inflorescence terminal, short rigidly paniculate, 3 to 
9-flowered; flowers deciduous, white, somewhat succulent; 
the pedicels 3 to 5 mm. thick, articulate; calyx smooth, 
turbinate, 1.5 em. long, about as broad across the top; the 
4 lobes 5 mm. long, ovately rounded to obtuse, with mem- 
branous margins; corolla glandularly dotted on the outer 
side, more membranous, orbicular, with broad bases insert- 
ed upon a prominent rim of 4 free petals, edges entire and 
hyaline, imbricately overlapping, 1 em. across, subpersistent; 
stamens very numerous, 1 to 2 cm. long, slender, glabrous, 
also inserted upon the ovary rim, ultimately interlaced; 
oblong anthers less than 2 mm. long, and 1 mm. thick; 
style also glabrous, equalling the stamens, fleshy, brown 
when dry, frequently glandular, gradually thickened from 
base to the small terminal stigma. 
Type specimen 8621, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. The author collected it in 
the same place in 1904 and it is otherwise unknown. It be- 
longs to the section Jambosa. 
