MancH 13, 1912] NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF EUGENIA 1413 
slightly auriculate base, margins entire and recurved in the dry 
state, curing dull brown on both sides, in general outline obovately 
oblong, glabrous; midrib very stout and prominent on both sides, 
yellowish; lateral nerves much less conspicuous, 30 to 40 primary 
pairs, divaricate, strict, their tips united and forming a distinct 
submarginal vein 5 mm. below the edge, reticulations coarse 
] and quite obscure; petiole thicker than long. Inflorescence 
| erect, terminal, forming a dense flat 2.5 dm. wide corymb; the 
main stalks arranged in 3's, the outer ones 1.5 dm. long, op- 
positely branched above the middle; all the stalks stout, angular, 
the upper ones subtended by a pair of thick blunt persistent 
green and reddish margined bracts; flowers sessile, also subtended 
by similar bracts, odorless; calyx 1.25 cm. long at least, angu- 
larly turbinate or subterete, 1 em. wide across the top; its seg- 
ments 4, persistent, erect, rigid, the basal portion thick, thinner 
toward the entire margins, the middle region pellucid punctate 
especially so on the inner side, the numerous veins obscure, all 
alike in size, at most 7.5 mm. wide, 4 mm. high, broadly rounded; 
petals 4, imbricately overlaid and forming a circular concave 
hood 1 em. across, rotund or orbicular, glandular punctate -ex- 
cept the thin margins, the inner ones thinner and a trifle smaller; 
stamens numerous; filaments closely contiguous toward the base, 
inflexed from above the middle, slightly flattened, gradually 
tapering toward the apex, sprinkled with large glands all along 
and on all sides, the outer ones 2 em. long, shorter gradations 
toward the center, early falling; anthers lanc2olately oblong, 
1.25 mm. long, dorsifixed from below the middle; style strict, 
terete, more densely glandular, gradually tapering from base to 
minute stigmatic portion; calyx rim thick, 5 mm. deep, narrowed 
ae toward the base, coarsely glandular or rugulose. 
Type specimen 11246, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Only one tree of this magnificent species was discovered on 
a forested ridge at 3250 feet of mount Burebid. “Lauwagan” 
is the native Bagobo name. 
pio. COEM 
Eugenia merrillii C. B. Rob. 
Field-note:—Slender shrub, 18 feet high, with a 2 inches 
thiek stem; branches widely spreading, arising from below the 
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