Marcu 13, 1912] NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS or EUGENIA 1429 
long, 1 to 3-clustered, the stalks short and obscurely angular; 
pedicel about as long or longer, terete, usually thickened toward 
the distal end; fruit dark green, globose, 1.25 cm. in diameter, 
drying shining brown, the exocarp thick, without lateral or oblique 
lines; seeds 2, unequal, when together 1 cm. in diameter, plano- 
convex. 
Type specimen 13102, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. ; 
Of this species only one tree was discovered in moist stony 
soil of densely wooded flats at 250 feet, between the two main 
forks of the Iwahig river. 
Eugenia melastomoides Elm. n. sp. 
A slender erect tree; stem 2.25 dm. thick, 8 m. high; branch- 
es spreading, forming a lax elongated crown; bark brown, 
peeling in thin plates; wood heavy, hard, the thin sapwood yellow- 
ish white, gradually changing to dark red in the center, odorless 
and without taste; twigs numerous, brown, slender, terete, the 
young portion glabrous. Leaves oppositely scattered along the 
branchlets, flat, horizontally spreading, only the abruptly con- 
stricted obtuse or bluntly acute tips recurved, base strictly cuneate, 
margins entire, quite rigid, dark green above, the 2 sides curing 
unequally brown, obovate or obovately oblong, the larger blades 
9 em. long by 4 em. wide above the middle; midvein quite con- 
spicuous on both sides, when young finely pulverulent beneath, 
soon becoming glabrous; lateral nerves quite evident and equally 
visible from both sides, the basal 2 pairs much ascending, the 
upper 3 to 4 pairs only oblique, reticulations faint; petiole less 
than 5 mm. long, sparsely strigose or cinereous at first, finally 
glabrous. Inflorescence in subumbellate clusters of few flowers 
only, green, odorless; pedicel 5 mm. long, slender and strict, 
sparsely cinereous, ultimately glabrate, arising from short more 
or less bracteate tubercles; calyx campanulate, 4 mm. long, as 
wide across the apex without the segments, cinereous, subtended 
by a pair of short thick bracts; segments 4, rotately spreading, 
persistent, frequently a pair much smaller, the large pair 4 mm. 
long, nearly 3 mm. wide across the base, ovately or triangularly 
oblong, quite thick, veins evident, glands few and scattered, 
greenish, glabrate except the finely ciliate margins; petals 4, 
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