LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. IV. Manila, P. I., March 13, 1912. Art. 721;/ 
NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF EUGENIA 
By 
A. D. E. Elmer 
During the past three years the writer collected toward fifty 
different species of Eugenia in the mount Apo region of Mindanao, 
on the island of Sibuyan and in the middle portion of Palawan. 
In the vicinity of Apo alone were collected twenty two species, 
fourteen of which are in the following pages described as new. 
On the island of Sibuyan fourteen were collected, seven of them 
are new. And on Palawan ten out of the fifteen species prove to 
be novelties. Apo exceeds by far in number of species, partly 
due to the higher elevation with denser forests and possibly 
because of more time devoted to its exploration. Mount Giting- 
giting on Sibuyan is only a little higher than one half that of Apo 
and mount Pulgar of Palawan is quite a little less than one 
half of Apo's height. Yet the latter mountain has a greater 
percentage of novelties. A most remarkable incident of my 
recent Palawan collection is the fact that it contains only 
one of Dr. Robinson's six new Palawan species, and that despite 
the fact that both his and mine were collected practically during 
the same season though of different years. 
Eugenia diplycosifolia C. B. Rob. 
Field-note for 11346:—Gnarly tree; stem 20 feet high, 8 
inches thick; wood hard; bark brown, sealing in plates; main 
branches from the middle, ultimately numerously branched; 
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