1424 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
Eugenia sinubanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Slender erect tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 8 to 10 m. high, its 
main ascending branches arising from the middle, ultimately 
numerously rebranched; wood hard, odorless, slightly bitter, 
testaceus except the thin yellowish white sapwood; bark yel- 
lowish gray, checked and peeling in plates; twigs short, ascending, 
fastigiate, glabrous, terete. Leaves opposite, ascending, coriace- 
ous,nearly flat, a trifle paler beneath, gradually acute to acuminate, 
base cuneate, elliptic to obovately oblong; margins entire and 
in the dry state rolled upon the upper side, the larger ones 7 em. 
long by 3 em. wide at the middle, drying very unequally dark 
brown on the 2 sides; midrib still darker brown, gland punetate 
on the side toward the base; lateral nerves very fine and nu- 
merous, near the edge forming a faint line, retieulations nu- 
merous and evident from beneath; petiole thick, glabrous, nearly 
black, 3 mm. long. Inflorescence profuse, also erect, green 
except the creamy white corolla and stamens, terminal or lateral, 
5 em. long, sparsely paniculately branched from below the mid- 
dle; peduncles usually clustered, green and angular; the secondary 
branches opposite or in subwhorls. very sparingly rebranched, 
similar to the peduncles, bearing few clustered flowers at the 
distal end; calyx 3.5 mm. long, as wide across the top, rounded, 
broadly turbinate to subeampanulate, more or less punctate, 
the 4 undulate teeth purplish red, sessile or short stipitate; 
petals 4, forming a ealyptrate hood, 3.5 mm. long, whitish, 
orbicular, veiny and sparsely punctate in the middle region, 
margins subhyaline; stamens numerous; filaments 6 mm. long 
but frequently shorter, filiform, cremeus, subcompressed, inter- 
laced, tips sharply pointed; anthers yellow, less than 0.5 mm. 
long, orbicular with notched ends especially the lower or basal 
one, versatile; style terete, strict, dull yellow, equalling the 
stamens, only slightly thinner toward the apex; the smooth broad 
calyx cavity deep yellow. 
Type specimens 12805 and 12325, A. D. E. Elmer, the former 
from Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911; the 
latter from Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
The Palawan specimens were collected on a gravelly wooded 
bank of the Iwahig river at 500 feet altitude. The Sibuyan 
material along the Sinuban creek at 1000 feet. 
