Marcu 13, 1912] Nores AND DESCRIPTIONS oF EUGENIA 1441 
only the thin sapwood whitish, otherwise badius brown; bark 
umber colored except the smooth gray with reddish brown 
mixed surface; main branches widely and crookedly spreading, 
ultimately numerously rebranched, forming dense masses toward 
the ends of the main branches which usually arise from the mid- 
; dle, the twigs lax and latericius; leaves descending mainly, 
| coriaceous, recurved, shallowly folded upon the upper lucid and 
much darker green surface; inflorescence terminal, profuse, sub- 
erect, th» main stalks isabellinus, the pedicels green, calyx bright 
green; petals white except the greenish tinged basal portion, 
strongly reflexed and subpersistent; stamens and style white as 
is also the cup portion of the calyx, anthers melleus; flowers 
faintly but sweetly fragrant. 
Represented by numbers 12978 and 12753, Elmer, Puerto 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April and March respectively, 
1911; numbers 12184 and 12260 from Sibuyan island were dis- 
tributed under E. marivelensis Merr. " 
Quite common in woods or secondary forests from 250 to 
750 feet altitude throughout the Visayan region. 
Eugenia miquelii Elm. n. sp. 
Tree; trunk 15 m. high, 5 dm. thick, terete; wood dirty white, 
hard, heavy, stringent in taste, quite odorless or only slightly 
fetid; bark smoothish, yellowish and gray blotched, that on the 
twigs cinnamon brown; main branches arising from the middle, 
widely spreading, ultimately numerously rebranched, forming 
a dense elongated crown; twigs ascending, very numerous, terete, 
testaceus. Leaves glabrous, opposite, mostly along the twigs, 
numerous, coriaceous, the upper ones ascending, the lower ones 
descending, similarly sublucid green on both sides, conduplicate 
on the upper side, the slender acuminate to caudate points 
strongly recurved, entire margins crinkled and a trifle involute 
in the dry brown state, the larger blades 7.5 em. long by 2.5 cm. 
wide at the middle, oblongish, frequently much smaller and 
broadly lanceolate, base usually acute; midrib rather conspicuous 
beneath; lataral nerves indefinite, divaricate, equally visible 
from both sides, faintly united submarginally, reticulations as 
bold, few and subparallel; petiole 1 em. long or less, glaucus red- 
dish brown when dry, quite slender, shallowly grooved along 
