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Marca 13, 1912] NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS oF EUGENIA 1431 
few branched toward the top only; peduncle usually solitary 
but occasionally more, strict, slender, subterete; branches at 
right angle, short, the longer ones obscurely rebranched at the 
ends, subtended by minute bracteoles; flowers 1 or 3-clustered 
at the distal ends of the short ultimate branchlets, when 3 the 
middle one erect and the lateral ones divaricate; calyx cam- 
panulate in the flowering state, urceolate in the fruit, 3 mm. long 
to base of lobes, 2.5 mm. wide at the top without the segments, 
smooth; calyx rim atropurpureus, the 4 persistent segments 
rotately spreading; the obtusely rounded teeth about 1 mm. long, 
fully as wide across the base, thick, rigid, with only a few glands; 
style 1.5 mm. long, strict, terete, arising from the middle of the 
shallow glabrous calyx cup; fruits 4 mm. in diameter, nearly 
globose, bearing the more or less quadrangular calyx rim. 
Type specimen 13047, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Collected in rich moist soil of a dense dipterocarp forest 
flat at 250 feet altitude. Named after Mr. C. H. Lamb who 
at one time had charge of the Iwahig Penal Colony. 
Approaching E. similis Merr. but our leaves are less than 
one half as large; inflorescence slenderer and fewer flowered. 
Eugenia lumboy Elm. n. sp. 
A shrub-like tree; stem nearly 1.5 dm. thick, 5 m. high, 
with main branches arising from below the middle; wood mod- 
erately hard and heavy, the thin sapwood whitish, otherwise 
dull brown especially toward the center, burly, odorless and 
tasteless; bark grayish white, smooth or when old checked in 
plates; branchlets numerous, ascending, lax, the apical portions 
dull green, terete, the young portion turning black while drying. 
Leaves opposite, chiefly along the twigs, thickly coriaceous, 
ascending, folded upon the upper much deeper green surface, 
in the dry state blackish brown above, sublatericius beneath and 
more or less punctate, entire, fusiformly lance shaped, apex 
acute to acuminate and bluntly rounded at the tip, base acute 
to subcuneate, 7.5 em. long by 2.5 cm. wide at the middle, fre- 
quently smaller; midvein conspicuous beneath, grooved along 
the upper side; lateral nerves 10 or more on each side, oblique, 
very obscure, their ends faintly united into a submarginal line, 
