1426 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
hood, 3 mm. across, light cremeus, caducous, glabrate on the 
outer side; stamens indifinite, also creamy yellow, the outer 
or longer ones 7.5 mm., the inner ones much shorter, glabrous, 
filiform, nearly straight; anthers less than 0.5 mm. long, or- 
bicular, dorsifixed between the sinus, the 2 cells well separating 
in anthesis and basal portion usually bilobed; style columnar, 
2.5 mm. long, greenish especially toward the stigma; ovary cup 
thick and yellowish green. 
Type specimen 11621, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
This very distinct species is at once distinguished from 
all other Philippine species by the brown scurfy character. 
Discovered in very humid forests of moist rich soil at 3750 
feet altitude. Only once seen and called “Malagsam” by the 
Bagobos. Named after our son Anton Dambor Elmer. 
Eugenia atropunctata C. B. Rob. 
Field-note for 12793:—Medium sized tree; stem 2 feet 
thick, 40 or more feet high, wadded toward the base, otherwise 
terete and straight, branched toward the top only; wood odorless 
as well as tasteless, the sapwood white, gradually changing to 
the latericius heart, quite hard and brittle; bark avellaneus, 
smooth, nearly badius brown beneath the epidermis; branches 
widely spreading, numerously rebranched; the twigs relatively 
short, crooked, suberect; leaves ascending or horizontal, co- 
riaceous, tips recurved, curvingly folded upon the upper darker 
green side; inflorescence fragrant, profuse along the branchlets, 
all the stalks dull green, the calyx yellówish or more properly 
luteus, the stamens cremeus, the ovary disk similar in color, 
petals pink to white. 
Represented by numbers 12793 and 12850, Elmer, Puerto 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Collected in wooded or forested flats at about 250 feet 
altitude. Quite common and mixed with Dipterocarpus. 
Eugenia ixoroides Elm. n. sp. 
A middle sized tree; stem 4 dm. thick, 12 m. high, terete, 
nearly straight, strongly buttressed at the base; wood hard 
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