Marcu 13, 1912] NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF EUGENIA 1427 
and heavy, odorless and tasteless, the outer one third dingy 
white, the central mass brownish; bark dull brown beneath, 
the grayish white epidermis smooth; branches chiefly at the 
h top, forming a dense congested crown; twigs numerous, hori- 
| zontal or descending, the glabrous tips ascendingly curved, 
| lax, terete, slender. Leaves coriaceous, similarly spreading, 
only the short obtuse tips recurved, otherwise flat, much paler 
or even yellowish green beneath, glabrous, drying nearly castaneus 
on the upper side, latericius beneath, obovately oblong or merely 
oblong, the normal ones 1 dm. long by 4 cm. wide, the smallest 
leaves oblanceolate, margins entire, base subcuneate, oppositely 
scattering, not numerous; midvein pronounced beneath, blackish 
brown, glabrate, minutely caniculate above; lateral nerves evident 
from below, 7 to 9 on a side, their ends forming a line 3 mm. 
below the edge, ascending, subparallel, reticulations none; pet- 
iole stout, 3 mm. long, somewhat expanded across the top and 
grooved. Infrutescence suberect, terminal, green, usually with 
3 or more peduncles although the central one is always the stoutest 
| and longest, panieulately branched from near the middle, 1 to 2 
1 dm. long and nearly as broad; peduncles and branches subterete, 
> glabrate when old, drying brown, the ultimate branchlets di- 
; varieate, all more or less articulate and subtended by bract 
vestiges; pedicels 5 to 10 mm. long, usually bearing few fruits 
at the distal end; fruit sessile, few-clustered, subtended by 
bract vestiges, subglobose, 7.5 mm. in diameter when fresh, 
bright red, smooth, apex flattened and cireular, the rim with 
4-apieulate teeth; style less than 1 mm. long, persistent, terete, 
tapering somewhat from base to apex; seeds 2, brown and finely 
papillate, plano-convex, the ventral side irregular, the dorsal 
i more or less rugose. 
ER Type specimen 13165, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
Discovered this tree in fertile soil of humid forests at 750 
feet altitude along the trail to Napsan, a small settlement on the 
west coast. Only one tree was seen and the dry specimens have 
a strong resemblance to certain species of Irora. 
Eugenia  mindoroensis C. B. Rob. 
Field-note for 13050:—A middle sized tree or smaller in 
