1412 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
This may be incorrectly determined, at least it seems very 
near to E. magalantha C. B. Rob. 
Eugenia magalantha C. B. Rob. 
Field-note:—A bushy and suberect shrub; stem crooked, 
wadded and twisted, branched from near the base, 6 inches 
thick, 15 feet high or long; main branehes long and widely 
spreading over the river bed, not numerously rebranched; wood 
sappy white, duller in or toward the center, quite hard and 
heavy, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, yellowish gray or 
wearing off in thin plates which themselves are smooth; the 
longer twigs usually somewhat drooping; leaves descending, 
coriaceous, shining deep green above, much paler beneath, the 
short petioles shining umber brown, usually twisted toward 
the recurved apex; inflorescence lateral, occasionally terminal, 
few flowered, pendant; buds obovoid, the exposed portion 
lividus; petals short, white, caducous; ovary disk melleus, the 
styles and stamens white or stramineus yellow especially the 
anthers; flowers slightly odorous, the stamens early falling from 
the broad whitish disk, hanging, varying from 3 to 5 inches 
across. 
Represented by number 12916, Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
In sandy soil packed with river stones along the slightly 
wooded Iwahig river banks at 250 feet. 
Eugenia panduriformis Elm. n. sp. 
Small erect tree; stem 3 dm. thick, 12 m. high; its branches 
mostly above the middle, ascending, sparingly rebranched ; wood 
moderately hard, whitish, odorless, with a faint bitter taste; 
bark brown, smoothish, grayish on the branches; twigs rather 
long, suberect, terete, 3.5 em. thick, obscurely angular. Leaves 
occasionally interspersed with very small bract-like lamina, mostly 
toward the ends, ascending, flat or sometimes slightly folded 
on the upper dark green and lucid surface, arranged in alternating 
whorls of 3, rigidly chartaceous, much paler green beneath, 5 
to 7 dm. long, nearly 2 dm. wide above the middle, subpandurate, 
rounded at the top, gradually tapering to the 3 to 5 em. wide 
