2776 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



Collected this wild nutmeg tree in compact and well 

 drained red soil along a ridge of dense woods of Giwantanan 

 at 1250 feet altitude. The Manobos call it "Dugoan." 



Related to Myristica cumingii Warb. and may more prop- 

 erly belong to the genus Knema. 



MYRTACEAE 



Eucalyptus binacag Elm. n. comb. Eugenia binacag Elm. 

 Leaf. Philip. Bot. vn, 2351, 1914. * 



In my opinion there are more than one species of Euca- 

 lyptus on the island of Mindanao. 



Eugenia abbreviata Elm. n. sp. 



A small stocky tree; stem 2 dm thick, 7 m high, its 

 main branches ascending and arising from above the mid- 

 dle; twigs numerous, erect, forming a rigid dense flattish 

 crown, the green leaf bearing portion glabrous and suban- 

 gular, the older twigs covered with a thin grayish epidermis 

 and a cinnamon brown hypodermis. Leaves opposite, divar- 

 icate or descending, very strongly folded upon the upper 

 deeper green and sublucid side, entire, much paler green 

 beneath and minutely punctate, curing brown, ovate but 

 gradually tapering to the much recurved sharply acuminate 

 to caudate apex, base broadly obtuse, glabrous, rigidly char- 

 taceous, margins callously edged and entire; midrib quite 

 pronounced beneath, sunken along the upper leaf surface; lat- 

 eral nerves 7 to 10 in each one half, divaricate, faint, a 

 trifle more apparent beneath, nearly straight, their tips form- 

 ing a united submarginal line, reticulations very obscure and 

 obsolete from above; petiole 5 mm long, usually recurved, 

 caniculate, glabrous, reddish brown or nearly black. Inflores- 

 cence usually exceeding the foliage, erect, terminal, also 

 profuse, from 1 to 3 cm long, few and short branched at 

 the base only, subtended by small leaves; peduncle and as- 

 cending branchlets glabrous, angular, relatively thick, the 

 lateral articulated at the base and bearing toward the distal 

 end a small cluster of flowers; flowers subtended by cadu- 

 cous bracts or bract vestiges; calyx cuneately pointed toward 



