1438 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
stalks greenish; calyx yellowish with red margins, ovary yellow, 
the other parts of the flower creamy white; fruits ellipsoid, 0.5 
inch long, shining purplish black, edible but with a dry sorbic 
taste. 
Represented by numbers 12461 in flower and 121495 in 
fruit, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May and 
April respectively, 1910. 
This serubby Eugenia is very plentiful in hot sand gravelly 
soll of the Pauala river flat from 500 to 1000 feet elevation. 
Known to the local Visayan as *Lumboy" or *Mago-lumboy." 
Eugenia submimica Elm. n. sp. 
Suberect shrub; stem 5 to 8 em. thick, 3 to 5 m. high, crook- 
ed, subterete, branched from below the middle; its main bran- 
ches ascending, ultimately laxly and numerously rebranched; 
wood isabellinus toward the center, sappy white on the outside, 
odorless and tasteless, quite hard and heavy; bark smooth, yel- 
lowish white, avellaneus otherwise, the green portion of the 
twigs suberect, slender, angularly striate, the older branchlets 
terete. Leaves oppositely scattered along the branches, flat, 
ascending or horizontal, rigidly chartaceous, much lighter green 
beneath, subavellaneus when dry, margins entire, oblong or linear 
oblong, the larger leaves 9 em. long by 4 em. wide at the middle: 
glabrous even when young, frequently much smaller in size, 
gradually tapering to the bluntly rounded obtuse or acute apex, 
similarly tapering toward the base; midrib prominent beneath, 
minutely grooved above; lateral nerves oblique, quite evident 
from both sides, their ends united into a submarginal line, con- 
spicuously connected with cross bars or reticulations; petiole 
3 mm. long, also glabrous. Inflorescence erect, all the stalks pale 
green and angular, lessthan 5 em. long, fully as wide, paniculately 
branched from below the middle, the middle peduncle stouter 
and longer, the lateral ones smaller; flowers solitary or few 
clustered from the ends of the slender 5 mm. long pedicels, the 
ultimate branchlets as well as the flowers subtended by mere 
apieulations; calyx tube turbinate, in the fruiting state urceolate, 
5 mm. long, smooth, terete, greenish, the rim whitish, 2.5 mm. 
thiek aeross the truncate top, very faintly 4-apiculate; petals 
white or tinged with pink, margins hyaline, imbricately folded 
