1408 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vou.41V, Arr. 72 
merous, 2.5 em. long, whitish; filaments very unequal in length, 
glabrous, filiform, more or less interlaced above the middle; 
anthers yellowish brown, obovoidly oblong, less than 1 mm. 
long, dorsifixed, the more tapering basal portion not lobed; 
style terete, much thicker than the filaments, persistent, exceeding 
the stamens, tapering toward the minute greenish stigma. 
Type specimen 11181, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Discovered on a steep densely wooded ravine along stream- 
lets on the overland trail along the Sibulan river at 2500 feet 
altitude. The vernacular Bagobo name is “Lawisan.” Named 
after Mr. Leroy Topping. 
Eugenia sablanensis ramulosa Elm. n. var. 
A 15 m. high tree and with a 7 dm. thick stem; bark smooth, 
brown, gray on the branches; wood whitish, moderately hard 
and without odor or taste; main branches crookedly spreading 
toward the top, ultimately numerously rebranched; twigs erect, 
yellowish gray or brown, angular, the green young portion gla- 
brous and somewhat flattened. Leaves shining dark green above, 
much lighter and duller beneath, shallowly conduplicate, rounded 
at the top except the abruptly reeurved and short blunt obtuse 
point, broadly cuneate at the base, the entire margins recurved 
in the dry state, opposite, scattering, drying very unequally 
brown on the 2 sides, 9 em. long by one half as wide a trifle 
above the middle, obovate to obovately oblong or subelliptie, 
rigidly coriaceous; midrib conspicuously ridged beneath, deeply 
grooved above; lateral nerves very faint, about 20 pairs, divari- 
cate, frequently with secondary pairs forming a very obscure sub- 
marginal line, reticulations none; petiole angular, grooved above, 
less than 1 cm. long. Inflorescence erect, terminal, less than 
1 dm. long, subcorymbose, nearly as wide across the top, exceeding 
the foliage; peduncles 3, usually branched from below the middle, 
the branches freely rebranched toward the top, all glabrous and 
somewhat flattened, frequently articulate, subtended by pairs of 
blunt persistent bracts; flowers sessile, erect, also subtended by 
similar bracts, usually solitary from the very short and articulated 
branchlets or pedicel; calyx 4.5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide across 
the top, yellowish green, upon exposure becoming red, more or 
