1442 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 72 
the upper side. Inflorescence terminal, erect, rather curt and 
congested, 3 to 5 em. long, nearly as broad, oppositely branched 
from near the base; all the branchlets thick, short, terete, brown 
and very finely shredded, branched toward the distal end ; flowers 
more or less clustered at the ends of the ultimate branchlets; 
calyx narrowly turbinate from base to basal portion of the 
segments, 6 mm. long by 5 mm. wide at the top including the 
sepals, smooth and green, subterete, lobes 4, equal, well separated, 
rotately spreading, broadly rounded, 2 mm. high, 3 mm. wide 
across the base, thick except the marginal portion; petals also 
4, imbricately folded in the bud state, ultimately reflexed from 
between the calyx segments, early failing, greenish white, sub- 
orbicular, 5 mm. long, more or less constricted at the base into 
a very short and very broad claw, obscurely venose, eglandular; 
stamens white, very numerous, at first straight, ultimately in- 
terlaced, 1 em. long, the inner ones unequally shorter, filiform, 
subterete, tips abruptly pointed; anthers orbicular, 0.33 mm. 
long, dorsifixed, minutely bilobed at the base, yellowish; style 
terete, whitish, equalling the longer stamens, very gradually 
narrowed toward the apex, nearly straight. 
Type specimen 11240, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Collected in well drained soil of the wooded edges along the 
Baracatan creek at 2250 feet altitude. Marked as “Balagsam” 
in the Bagobo dialect. 
Different from the northern E. longiflora (Pr.) Vil. and 
apparently very similar if not identical to the Javan E. lineata 
(Blm.) Duth. which however is antidated by one or two other 
species by that name. It is doubtful if ours is the Javan plant 
which according to some authors is the same as F. cerasiformis 
(Blm.) DC. Named in honor of the celebrated botanist, F. C. 
W. Miquel. 
Eugenia robertii Merr. 
Field-note:—Medium sized tree; stem slender, 45 feet long, 
1 foot thick, terete, branched toward the top only; wood mod- 
erately soft, the thin sapwood pale white, otherwise reddish 
brown, odorless and tasteless; bark very smooth, grayish or yel- 
lowish white; branches numerous and relatively short, ascendiag, 
