Oct. 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



3095 



Sufficiently distinct from Ficus cuernosensis Elm. by its 

 longer peduncles and petioles, larger and differently col- 

 ored receptacles, much broader leaves and more pubescent 

 twigs. 



MYRTACEAE 



Eugenia silvestrei Elm. n. sp. 



A large tree. Branches terete, ashy gray and very 

 smooth, young portion entirely glabrous, the ultimate 

 ones 5 mm. thick. Leaves opposite, well scattered, rig- 

 idly coriaceous, likewise glabrous, obovately oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, subcuneate toward the base, much 

 paler green beneath, shining on the upper side, upon 

 stout 1.5 to 2 cm. long caniculate petioles which are 

 not expanded at the base, 12 cm. long including the 

 petioles, 5 cm. wide above the middle; midrib ridged 

 beneath, with numerous obscure divaricate parallel nerves 

 on each side, their ends forming a faint submarginal 

 vein. Inflorescence terminal, corymbosely paniculate, 1 

 dm. long and about as wide; branches smooth, subterete 

 or the ultimate ones much shorter and somewhat com- 

 pressed, articulate and leaving gray scars after falling. 

 Young flowers glabrous, appearing punctate, 3 to 5 ter- 

 minally clustered, upon 5 mm. long subcom pressed ped- 

 icels; calyx leathery, turbinate, 6 to 7 mm. long. 5 

 mm. wide across the truncate apex, subtended by a 

 pair of stout bracts; petals whitish, calyptrate, glan- 

 dular punctate. Fruits hard or subcoriaceous, termi- 

 nally clustered, erect, 1 to 1.33 cm. long, 5 to 8 mm. 

 thick, ellipsoid, terminated by the dark purple calyx 

 rim, subtended by a pair of equal blunt bracts; pedicels 

 5 mm. long, upon 1 to 3 short internodal portions, all 

 subtended by similar pairs of subpersistent bracts; seeds 

 ellipsoid, stone-like, becoming separated into 2 unequal 

 plano-convex portions. 



Type specimen number 18011, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Bafios (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. In the lower forested belt. Here I refer 

 also number 934, C. F- Baker, same locality, April, 1913. 

 A critical segregate from Eugenia denswervia Men: and 

 Eugenia sablanense Elm. Named after Silvestre Dumo, a 

 faithful Ilocano boy. 



Eugenia subsulcata Elm. n. sp. 



A small burly tree. Branches crooked, rigid, terete. 



