Marcu 13, 1912] NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF EUGENIA 
Gathered in dense forests north of the Baruring river at 
4000 feet altitude. ‘“Malagsam” is the native Bagobo name. 
Eugenia oblanceolata C. B. Rob. 
Field-note:—A 50 feet high tree, with a 2.5 feet thick trunk; 
wood moderately hard, pale white on the outside, odorless and 
tasteless; bark smoothish, yellowish brown, sealing in irregular 
plates; main branches arising from above the middle, erooked and 
widely spreading, the ultimate ones rather short and forming 
more or less dense bushes; twigs rigid, angular, suberect, shining 
green; leaves ascending or horizontal, recurved, rigidly coriaceous, 
conduplieate on the upper lucid green surfaces, much lighter 
beneath; the inflorescent stalks thick, angular, green and rigid; 
calyx brown margined, otherwise greenish; petals greenish white 
or slightly tinged with red, small, calyptrately falling; stamens 
and pistil yellowish except the greenish stigma; flowers only 
slightly odorous. 
Represented by number 11627, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Gathered in dense humid forests at 4000 feet altitude. 
Known to the Bagobos as '"Lauwegan." Very rare in our 
locality. 
Eugenia calvinii Elm. n. sp. 
A medium sized tree; stem 6 dm. thick, straight, terete 
except toward the wadded base, 12 m. high or higher, branched 
toward the top only; wood quite hard, heavy, brittle, latericius 
except the thin white sapwood, odorless and without taste; bark 
castaneus except the smooth yellowish gray epidermis; main 
branches crooked, spreading, numerously rebranched, terete, 
glabrous on the green terminal portion, forming dense masses. 
Leaves rigidly coriaceous, horizontal, recurved especially toward 
th» sharply acuminate apex, deeply and curvingly folded upon 
the upper side, much paler beneath, drying castaneus above, 
lighter brown on the nether side, opposite, the entire edges 
subrecurved in the dry state, base obtuse or broadly cuneate, 
elliptic to elliptic oblong, the larger blades 12 em. long by one 
half as wide across the middle, only a few pairs toward the ends 
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