1434 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 72 
In woods from 250 to 750 feet altitude, in shallow dry soil 
covering the stony subsoil. Not common. 
Its alliance is with E. merrittiana C. B. Rob. yet quite dis- 
tinct in leaf characters alone. 
Eugenia angularis Elm. n. sp. 
A medium sized tree; trunk not strict nor straight, 6 dm. 
thick, toward 15 m. high, buttressed at the base; wood hard, 
heavy, odorless, bitter, the thin outer portion sappy white, 
gradually changing to the dark brown central portion; bark 
smooth, grayish; main branches from above the middle, crookedly 
rebranched; twigs numerous, suberect, relatively short and 
forming dense bushes, terete, glabrous, brown, rigid. Leaves 
ascending, quite numerously crowded upon the branchlets, rigid, 
drying very dark brown or nearly black on the upper glazed side, 
much paler green beneath, shallowly folded, tips rather abrupt, 
acute to acuminate, recurved and usually twisted, base broad- 
ly cuneate, at the base distinctly decurrent for 5 mm., entire 
margins faintly involute in the dry state, elliptic or more obovate- 
ly elliptic, oppositely scattered, 9 em. long without the stalk, 4 
em. wide across the middle; midvein prominent beneath, finely 
grooved on the upper side; lateral nerves numerous, divaricate, 
pinnate, very faint, forming an obscure line just beneath the 
edge, reticulations nearly as evident; petiole black, wrinkled, 
slightly grooved above, only 1 em. long without the decurrent 
basal portion of the lamina. Infrutescence erect, the smooth 
green stalks more or less angular, 5 to 8 em. long, 3-branched from 
the base, oppositely rebranched, the ultimate ones very short, 
apparently all the branchlets articulate and subtended by very 
short bracts or bract vestiges; fruits solitary or in pairs from the 
distal end of the ultimate branchlets, sessile, similarly provided 
with bracteoles; calyx 1.25 cm. long, smooth, rigid, pale green, 
strongly quadrangular, gradually tapering from base to the 7.5 
mm. wide apex, blackish when dry, the 4 ridges extending into 
the 4 teeth; segments very rigid and divergent into a wing-like 
appendage, 4 mm. long, compressed, elongated, the sides united, 
the basal ventral portion rather broadly expanded and convex 
or partially hollowed, persistent; petals and stamens not seen; 
style persistent, 1.5 cm. long, terete, usually curved toward the 
