1428 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
rank; trunk subterete, 1.5 foot thick, somewhat leaning over 
the river bed, its main branches from the middle, 35 feet high; 
wood hard, heavy, burly, the thin sapwood dingy yellowish 
white, otherwise latericius in color; bark of the same reddish 
brown except the smoothish yellowish gray epidermis which 
sometimes peels in thin and rather smooth plates; main branches 
spreading, profusely rebranched; the twigs slender and lax: 
horizontal or pendant; leaves similarly arranged, nearly flat, 
tips recurved, much deeper and duller green on the upper sur- 
face; infrutescence green; the ripe fruits nearly globose and 
only slightly oblique, always less than 0.5 inch in diameter, 
vinosus when ripe; inflorescence suberect, terminal, its stalks 
green; the calyx very pale green; style and anthers nearly of 
the same color, the filaments are pure white; the flowers are 
faintly fragrant. 
Represented by numbers 13050 and 12775, Elmer, Puerto 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March and April, 1911. 
Mostly upon wooded river banks of shallow red clay under- 
laid with a stony débris. Rather common, with cherry-like fruits. 
Eugenia ecostulata Elm. n. sp. 
Quite a small tree; stem subterete, 1.5 dm. thick, 7 m. 
high, straight; its main branches ascending from the middle, 
ultimately numerously rebranched, crooked, the twigs compar- 
atively short and suberect, glabrous and terete at all stages; 
wood moderately soft or hard, gradually changing from the 
peripheral whitish portion to the badius center; bark deep reddish 
brown except the smooth yellowish gray epidermis. Leaves 
opposite, scattered, coriaceous, horizontal, glabrous, conduplicate, 
the abrupt acute to acuminate blunt apex recurved, somewhat 
paler green beneath, curing equally brown on both sides, the entire 
margins rather sharp, obtuse or acute at base, elliptieally oblong, 
the average blades 1 dm. long by 3.5 em. wide at the middle, 
finely punctate beneath; midvein ridged beneath, sunken above; 
lateral nerves barely visible from both sides, indefinite, more 
or less united at their tips into a faint submarginal line, reticu- 
lations similarly evident; petiole always glabrous, brownish 
black when dry, not exceeding 1 em., caniculate above. In- 
frutescence terminal from the second year old twigs, 1 to 3 em. 
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