Marca 13, 1912] NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS oF EUGENIA 1423 
Eugenia cumingiana Vid. 
Field-note:—Slender tree; stem 7 inches thick, subterete, 
25 feet high, only with few main branches toward the top; wood 
, heavy, burly, dark brown except the thin whitish sapwood, 
without odor or taste; bark smoothish, yellowish gray; main 
] branches numerously rebranched, the ultimate ones erect and 
relatively short, forming dense masses; leaves subcoriaceous, 
ascending, tips strongly recurved, nearly flat, paler green beneath; 
inflorescence creamy white, entirely odorless, erect, lax, ovary 
yellowish, the main stalks greenish. 
Represented by number 12353, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Gathered in red sticky soil from the forested ridge at 2000 
feet altitude along the trail toward España. 
It is nearer to 925 Cuming, a cotype of E. cumingiana Vid., 
than to my number 11904 from the mount Apo collection and 
which I interpret as E. acuminatissima (Blm.) Kurz. Certainly 
these two numbers of my own collection are not one and the 
same species and I prefer to keep them under different names. 
If the limits of these two numbers can be stretched to include only 
one species, then E. perpallida Merr. must also be included. 
Eugenia perpallida Merr. 
Field-note:—Erect small tree; stem 1 foot thiek, 30 feet 
high, with main branches arising from below the middle, ulti- 
mately laxly and numerously rebranched and forming a flattish 
crown; wood rather hard and deavy, dingy white, odorless and 
tasteless; bark grayish white, scaling on the stem, smooth on 
the branches; leaves coriaceous, horizontal or descending, folded 
and recurved especially toward the apex, shining gr2en above, 
glaucus beneath; the erect terminal inflorescence yellowish 
| green except the yellow ovary and anthers; filaments and petals 
whitish; style also yellowish, bearing a greenish stigma. 
Represented by number 12181, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Colleeted in compaet soil of light woods bordering open 
grassy glens at 500 feet altitude or less. *'Batungoy" is the local 
Visayan name. 
