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MancH 13, 1912] Nores ANp DESCRIPTIONS or EUGENIA 1421 
from the middle and ascending, crooked, ultimately nu- 
merously rebranched and forming a dense crown; wood avel- 
laneus for the greater central mass, gradually changing to the 
thin whitish sapwood, hard, heavy, odorless and also without 
taste; bark avellaneus gray except the castaneus inner surface, 
scaling in thin irregular plates; twigs lax, numerous, subterete, 
conspicuously grayish white, the young tips more compressed. 
Leaves dense, mostly horizontal, slightly recurved toward the 
acute to acuminate apex, conduplicate, on the lower side only 
a trifle paler green, glabrous, drying subviridis, oblong, less than 
9 em. long and 3.5 em. wide at the middle, base obtuse, margins 
entire, opposite, pretty well crowded toward the ends of the 
numerous branchlets; midrib prominent beneath, sunken above; 
lateral nerves 10 to 15 pairs, with occasional secondary ones, 
very obscure, subdivaricate, their tips forming a submarginal 
line 1.5 mm. from the edge, the reticulations quite evident; 
petiole 5 mm. long, subterete, channelled along the upper side. 
Inflorescence umbellately clustered in the leaf axils, upon short 
very sparingly branched common stalks less than 5 mm. long 
and subtended at the base by bracts; flowers strict, spreading, 
subtended by bracteoles or mere vestiges, 10 to 12.5 mm. long, 
nearly 5 mm. across the top, slenderly and gradually tapering 
from base to apex, glaucus or yellowish green, more or less 
covered with dark brown minute glands, terete; its 4 lobes very 
shallow and rounded, persistent, purple red; petals apparently 
6, imbrieately folded and forming a circular hood, caducous, 
orbicular, 3 mm. across, sparingly pellucid punctate, white; 
stamens not very numerous, incurved in the bud state, nearly 
Straight when in full anthesis; pure white filaments of the same 
thickness throughout, subterete, the outer few 5 mm. long, most 
of the inner ones much shorter; anthers ochroleucus, 0.5 mm. 
long, suborbicular, dorsifixed, emarginate at apex, obscurely 
bilobed at base; style strict, terete, only slightly tapering toward 
apex, usually gland dotted, whitish; calyx cup deep, melleus 
or luteus; ripe fruits shining vermillion red, obconie. 
Type specimen 12975, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Discovered in well drained soil of the slightly wooded and 
densely bamboo covered ridge at 2000 feet altitude, or from 750 
to 1000 feet above ‘‘Baguio” the lookout house. 
