Marcu 13, 1912] NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF EUGENIA 1407 
Of this flaky species I saw only a few trees in rich moist 
soil of deep forests along the Mararag creek at 5000 feet on the 
east side of mount Apo. The Bagobos call it “Labag.” 
Eugenia toppingii Elm. n. sp. 
Strict small tree; stem 8 m. high, 1.5 dm. thick; branches 
from the middle, divaricate, rather long and freely rebranched; 
wood moderately hard, dull white or reddish toward the center: 
odorless and tasteless; bark brown, smoothish; twigs terete, 
the younger ones brown, the older grayish, tips glabrous. Leaves 
also glabrous, rigidly coriaceous or subchartaceous, horizontally 
spreading, flat or only the tips slightly recurved, dark deep 
green above, much paler beneath, base obtusely rounded, more 
or less decurrent along the basal 5 to 10 mm., entire, opposite, 
widely scattered along the branchlets, few, when dry the upper 
side much darker brown than the lower, oblong or ovately oblong, 
varying from 1.5 to 3 dm. long, 6 to 10 cm. wide across the middle 
or a trifle below it; midrib flattish on the upper side and glandular 
toward the base, conspicuous beneath; lateral pairs 10 to 15, 
oblique, prominent beneath, their ends archingly united 5 mm. 
below the edge and a faint submarginal vein, cross bars or re- 
ticulations very fine and relatively prominent from beneath; 
petiole thick, 2 em. long, deeply channelled above. Inflorescence 
odorless, terminal or axillary, widely spreading and the longer 
ones subpendant, from 1 to 3 dm. long and as wide; peduncles 
usually 3, slender, terete, branched from above the middle; branch- 
lets opposite, few, divaricate, only sparingly rebranched, all 
relatively long and slender; flowers solitary or occasionally in 
pairs from the ends of the 1 em. long articulated pedicels; calyx 
1.5 em. long and as wide including the segments, the basal portion 
narrowly turbinate, yellowish green; its segments 4, deeply con- 
cave andwidely spreading, margins thin and petaloid, otherwise 
thick, the dorsal side minutely papillose, the inner side with few 
large glands, the larger pair nearly 1 cm. across, the alternating 
pair much smaller, all oval or broadly elliptic; petals 4, sub- 
persistent, reflexed, the broad basal portion thickened, at least 
1.33 em. long, ovately elliptic, abruptly constricted toward the 
f claw into auricular lobes, strongly veiny, cremeus, densely glan- 
i dular punctate except the thin marginal portion; stamens nu- 
