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Marcu 13, 1912] Notes AND Descriptions OF EUGENIA 1403 
Eugenia malagsam Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, stem 4.5 dm. thick, 12. m. high; wood moderately 
hard, odorless and tasteless, sappy white at least the outer one 
half; bark smooth, yellowish gray; main branches spreading, 
the ultimate ones numerous and ascending, forming dense clusters, 
the young portion green and terete, glabrous, blackish brown 
when dry. Leaves ascending, glabrous, folded on the upper 
deep green surface, paler beneath, abruptly constricted into an 
acute to acuminate point, base obtuse or subcuneate, the entire 
margins subinvolute in the dry state, the larger blades 7.5 em. 
long by nearly 3 em. wide across the middle, oblong, frequently 
much smaller and lance shaped or oblanceolate, the upper surface 
shining nearly black, the nether side castaneus; midrib promi- 
nent beneath, only faintly grooved on the upper side; lateral 
nerves oblique, more evident from the lower side, many, at 
their ends united into a submarginal line, the fine reticulations 
nearly as prominent. Young inflorescense erect, green, varying 
from 5 to 13 em. long, glabrous, freely rebranched from above 
the middle; peduncles usually 3, angular; the short branches very 
shortly rebranched toward their ends, all articulate, angular 
and subtended by small rigid obtusely or acutely pointed bracts; 
flowers or rather buds few clustered at the ends of the ultimate 
branchlets, similarly subtended by minute bracts, sessile, nu- 
merous; calyx smooth, green, subterete, 4 mm. long, turbinate, 
nearly 3 mm. across at the top, crown 4-apiculate; petals whitish, 
imbricately overlaid and forming a ealyptrate hood 2.75 mm. in 
diameter, caducous; anthers indefinite, incurved in the bud 
state; filaments 2 mm. long more or less, filiform, sub- 
terete; anthers short, truncately oblong, 0.25 to 0.33 mm. 
long, attached on the back in the basal sinus; style terete, 
strict, nearly equalling the stamens; fruits densely clustered, 
heavy, obovoidly globose, sessile, 1.25 em. long, light to dark 
shining red. 
Type specimen 11838, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Discovered in red compact and well drained humus 
covered soil of a wooded ridge of mount Burebid at near- 
ly 4000 feet altitude. This as well as other similar or 
closely allied species of Eugenia the Bagobos call “Malagsam.” 
