1418 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
beneath, little channelled above; lateral nerves 10 to 15 pairs, 
quite obscure from beneath, their ends forming an obscure sub- 
marginal vein, reticulations evident only from beneath; petiole 
5 mm. long, blackish brown when dry, grooved along the upper 
side. Inflorescence slightly fragrant, profuse from the fallen leaf 
axils or from the lowermost leaf axils; peduncles green, strict, 
usually clustered, varying from 5 to 20 mm. long, very slender, 
subterete, glabrous, apparently finely glandular, unbranched 
or rarely so; flowers few clustered at the distal end, the larger 
stalks usually with another whorl further down, subtended 
by bract vestiges; calyx tube 1.25 em. long, 3 mm. wide across 
the pink obscurely 5-toothed or crenate apex, slenderly turbinate, 
the basal one half appearing as a stalk, terete, finely papillose 
or granular in appearance, yellowish green; petals cremeus, 
forming a calyptrate hood, caducous, orbicular, 3.5 mm. across, 
obscurely veiny, sprinkled with pellucid glands, about 5 in num- 
ber; stamens similarly colored numerous; filaments 6 mm. long, 
the inner ones shorter and eglandular, subterete, pointed at apex. 
the outer ones occasionally glandular, relatively straight or only 
the upper portion intermixed; anthers yellow, 0.75 mm. long, 
oblong, dorsifixed from between the basal lobes; style terete, 
nearly 1 em. long, thick, gradually tapering from base to 
apex, oecasionally gland dotted; calyx cup shining deep yellow. 
Type specimen 12742, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Gathered in the dry gravelly flat of secondary forests at 
250 feet altitude. Quite rare! 
Eugenia arcuatinervia Merr. 
Field-note:—Trze, 45 feet high, with a 1.5 foot thick stem, 
terete; wood rather hard, whitish, odorless and tasteless; bark . 
yellowish brown, smoothish; main branches arising from the 
middle, ascending, ultimately numerously branched; twigs 
terete, green, erect, rather short; crown conical, dense; leaves 
ascending, recurved toward the apex, folded upon the upper 
much deeper and shining green surface, coriaceous; infrutescence 
strictly erect, all the stalks dark green as is also the calyx. 
_ Represented by number 11312, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
. Mindanao, August, 1909. : 
