1432 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
reticulations none; petiole thick, 5 mm. long, crinkled on the 
lower side, channelled above. Inflorescence erect, 5 cm. long or 
less, glabrous and smooth as is also the foliage; peduncle solitary, 
branched from below the middle, stout, subangular; branches 
few, opposite, ascending, short, seldom rebranched toward their 
distal ends, otherwise similar to the main stalk; flowers solitary 
or 2 to 3-clustered or even more numerous at the usually thick- 
ened ends; calyx 1.25 em. long, greenish, the basal one half con- 
stricted into a pseudostalk, the upper portion broadly turbinate or 
eampanulate, nearly as wide across the top, the rim portion thick; 
segments 4, about 2 mm. wide, roundly truncate, dotted, margins 
quite thin, the 2 larger ones 5 mm. broad and alternating with 
a smaller pair only one half as broad; petals yellowish green, 
early falling, 4, deflexed in anthesis, 5 mm. long, oval or broadly 
obovate, very unequal, glandular black punctate except the 
thinner marginal portion; stamens numerous, the outer or longer 
ones 1.5 em. long, the inner ones somewhat shorter; filaments 
glabrous, filiform, curved toward the apex only, rich purple; 
anthers 1 mm. long, oblong, truneately rounded at the apex, a 
trifle narrowed at the bilobed base, basifixed in the sinus, con- 
nective reddish, ventrally dehiscing; style also purple, glabrous, 
terete, equalling the longer stamens, stigmatic portion minute. 
Type specimen 12549, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Collected in hot dry sand gravelly soil of the Pauala river 
flat at 750 feet altitude. The Visayan on northern Sibuyan 
call it “Lumboy” although this name is also applied to a few 
other species with similar edible fruits. 
This species is nearest to but not identical with E. mer- 
rütiana C. B. Rob. Our leaves are only one half as large, more 
glandular punctate and with much less conspicuous lateral nerves 
than in Robinson’s type. 
Eugenia purpuriflora Elm. n. sp. 
A small erect tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, 8 m. high, terete, 
somewhat crooked, branched from the middle toward the top; 
branches few, ascending, rebranehed toward their ends, rather 
short, the few twigs rigid and erookedly rebranched; wood hard, 
heavy, the thin outer portion whitish, then latericius and even 
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