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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 72 
Eugenia globosa Elm. n. sp. 
Large tree; trunk 20 m. high, 1 m. thick; main branches as- 
cending from above the middle, ultimately widely spreading, the 
ascending branchlets rather long, crooked, not numerously re- 
branched, terete; wood moderately hard, sappy white at least 
on the outside, odorless and without taste; bark smoothish, 
brown, gray on the branches. Leaves opposite, scattered along 
the rigid twigs, horizontal or somewhat descending, recurved 
toward the sharply acuminate tips, shallowly conduplicate on 
the upper very dark green and shining surface, much lighter 
and duller beneath, rigidly coriaceous or subchartaceous, curing 
dull brown on both sides, beneath minutely punctate, entire, base 
obtuse or rounded, oblong or ovately so, the normal blades 1.5 
dm. long, nearly 6 em. across the middle or a trifle below it; 
midvein very pronounced, only shallowly grooved along the upper 
side; lateral nerves 7 to 10 pairs, oblique, ascendingly curved 
toward the more or less united ends 3 to 5 mm. below the edge, 
reticulations fine and quite evident from beneath; petiole very 
stout, 1.25 em. long, grooved along the upper side especially 
toward the lamina. Inflorescence short paniculate, terminal 
and well exceeding the foliage or upon leafless twigs, very rigid, 
less than 1 dm. long, usually with 2 or more main subterete stalks, 
branched from the middle; branches subterete, dark green, the 
larger ones occasionally rebranched, opposite, apparently artic- 
ulate, the ultimate ones very short, all comparatively thick; 
flowers usually solitary, terminal, showy, odorless, occasionally 
measuring 5 cm. across but usually smaller, sessile; calyx cam- 
panulate, glabrous and green, 7.5 mm. high and as wide between 
the bases of the sepals; segments 4, unequal, ascending, spoon 
shaped, the larger pair 1 em. wide and ovately rotund, the smaller 
ones scarcely one half as large, margins thin and petaloid, pel- 
lucid punctate on the inner surface; petals of a similar number, 
greenish on the outer or exposed portions, whitish otherwise, 
subpersistent, rotately spreading or reflexed as the calyx segments, 
deeply concavo-convex, short ovately abruptly constricted into 
a short and broad basal claw, densely pellucid punctate from 
both sides, the 10 veins nervose especially toward the apex, 
margins much thinner and without nerves or glands, thickest 
at the base, 1.5 em. long, 2 to 3 mm. less across the middle; 
