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eadueous, 8 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide above the middle, obovate, 
narrowed toward the base into a broad claw, veiny, only sparsely 
dotted with punctate glands; stamens not seen; style 6 mm. 
or longer, terete, thickest at the base; ovary disk flattish, grayish 
hairy; fruits many, solitary or in pairs from the leaf axils or in 
the axils of the fallen leaves along the twigs, obliquely globose 
1.5 to 2 em. in diameter, with 4 persistent calyx lobes, yellow 
and edible when mature, the single seed peppery flavored. 
Type specimens 10750 for flower and 11013 for fruit, A. D. 
E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May 
and June respectively, 1909. 
The flowering material was gathered in humid forests at 
3500 feet altitude and was called by the Bagobos ‘“‘Baring-oras;”’ 
the fruiting specimens were gathered in dry woods at 2500 feet 
and was called *Magdang" by the same natives. 
If E. aherniana C. B. Rob., E. loheri C. B. Rob. and E. pasa- 
caensis C. B. Rob. are recognizably distinct, ours presents a fourth 
eritieal species. It is most closely related to the first one men- 
tioned and differs from it in the shape, texture and venation of 
the leaves; also our fruits are smaller and floral parts larger. 
Eugenia lambii Elm. n. sp. 
Small or middle sized trees; stem straight, terete, 3 dm. 
thiek, 12 m. high, its main branches arising from above the mid- 
dle; wood very hard, burly, only the sapwood whitish, otherwise 
latericius or even blackish in the very center, without odor 
or taste; epidermis occasionally scaling in plates; the main 
branehes ultimately numerously rebranched, the glabrous twigs 
very slender and terete. Leaves horizontally spreading, deep 
dull green above, much lighter green beneath, shallowly con- 
duplieate, the recurved tips rather abruptly acuminate, base 
obtuse or subeuneate, entire, opposite and well scattering, curing 
dull brown, the large blades 8 cm. long by 3 em. wide across the 
middle, oblong, the smallest ones lance shaped, thinly coriaceous; 
midrib prominent beneath; the lateral pairs from 10 to 15, oblique, 
very fine, their tips forming a submarginal line 1 to 2 mm. from 
the edge, retieulations none; petiole less than 1 em. long, also 
glabrous, grooved along the upperside. Old inflorescence lateral 
and from the lowermost leaf axils, averaging 3 em. long, divaricate, 
LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 72 
ccn, neal 
