Marcu 13, 1912] NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS oF EUGENIA 1433 
blackish brown toward the center, without odor or taste; bark 
smoothish or minutely checked, yellowish gray or brownish. 
Leaves rigidly coriaceous, horizontal, nearly flat, glabrous, lucid 
above, paler green beneath, drying dull or reddish brown on 
both sides, few and opposite, the entire margins subinvolute 
in the dry state, blackish punctate on the nether side only, 16 
cm. long by one half as wide or longer and relatively narrower, 
frequently much smaller, ovately elliptic to subrotund, apex 
very bluntly obtuse, base rounded or slightly cordate; midrib 
stoutly raised beneath, smooth and reddish brown; lateral nerves 
on the larger leaves about 15 pairs, with secondary interven- 
ing ones, subdivaricate, relatively obscure and equally visible 
from both sides, cross bars few, thin tips united into a sub- 
marginal line 5 mm. beneath the edge; petiole 3 to 5 mm. long, 
about as thick, nearly black when dry. Inflorescence erect, rigid, 
the green and glabrous stalks terete, 5 cm. long, short and 
rigidly paniculate or only a few branched toward the top and 
usually ùpon 3 peduncles; flowers erect, odorless, few; calyx 
at least 1.5 cm. long to the base of the segments, green and 
brownish spotted, occasionally bracteate on the sides, terete, 
the upper one half broadly turbinate, the balance stipitate, 
1 em. wide at the top excluding the calyx lobes; sepals 4, purplish 
fringed, in 2 very unequal pairs, well separated, rotat»ly spreading, 
ultimately reflexed, the larger ones nearly 1 cm. wide and 6 mm. 
high, rounded, quite rigid, glandular dotted except the yellowish 
green and thinner marginal portion; petals also 4, pinkish white 
or purplish, orbieular, at least 7.5 mm. across, severally veined, 
the large black glands scattered except in the thinner marginal 
region; stamens very numerous; filaments unequal, subterete, 
only slightly wider toward the base, erect, strict, red or purple, 
tips pointed, the longer 2 cm. in length; anthers dull yellow ex- 
cept the red connective, 1.25 mm. long, obovoidly oblong, lobed 
at the base, affixed dorsally in the sinus; style 1.5 em. long, 
terete, deep red; calyx cup shining purple; fruits 2.5 to 3 em. 
long, 2 to 3 em. thick below the middle, smooth, hard, greenish, 
ovoidly oblong, tapering to the calyx rim, style persistent; seeds 
2, nearly equal, plano-concave, at least 1.5 cm. across. 
Type specimens 13233 for flower and 13117 for fruit, A. D. 
E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May and April 
respectively, 1911. 
