1410 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 72 
1 em. long, rugose on the lower side, broadened and grooved 
on the upper. Inflorescence lateral or terminal upon special 
branchlets, quite rigid, green, greatly varying from 5 to 15 em. | 
long, oppositely branched from below the middle, the ultimate | 
branchlets very short, all thick and terete; flowers clustered | 
or seattered toward the ends of the branchlets, sessile, faintly M 
fragrant; calyx 4 mm. long, one half as wide across the truncate 
apex, the upper part turbinate, the basal narrowed into a false 
stalk, greenish yellow; petals 4, forming an imbrieately overlaid 
circular hood 2.5 mm. across, falling easily and as a whole, ro- 
tund to orbieular, the inner ones smaller, eremeus; stamens 
numerous and ineurved in the bud state; filaments filiform, 
5 mm. long on the outside, the inner or younger ones a trifle 
shorter, crinkled, interlaced, yellowish white, thicker and sub- 
compressed toward the base; anthers 0.33 mm. long, subrotund 
or oblongish, dorsifixed, deeper yellow; style strict, 3 mm. long, 
subterete, relatively small at the apex, fruits purplish, elongated 
ellipsoid, fully 1.5 em. long. 
Type specimen 12078, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
Rare in red humus covered soil at 1500 feet altitude along 
the densely wooded trail to España. 
Separated from E. decipiens K. et V., a Javan species, by 
the relatively much broader leaves, conspicuous lateral nerves 
and a prominent submarginal vein. The calyx in our speci- 
mens are entirely truncate, not bluntly apiculate or dentate. 
E. d 
Eugenia malaccensis Linn. 
Field-note:—A medium sized tree; stem 2 feet thick; hard 
wood covered with smoothish gray bark; branches arising from 
below the middle, widely spreading; leaves horizontal or descend- 
ing, thickly coriaceous, shining deep green above, much lighter 
green beneath, shallowly conduplicate on the upper side; flowers 1 
in small seattered clusters along the stem and larger branches; 
calyx pale green, rigid; petals, stamens and pistils bright red 
or pink, the small anthers yellowish; fruit darker red, pyriform, 
nearly 2 inches long. 
Represented by number 11964, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, October, 1909. 
