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Marcu 13, 1912] NorES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF EUGENIA 1443 
forming a dense flattish crown; leaves ascending, coriaceous, 
folded upon the upper darker lucid green surface, tips recurved; 
flowers terminal, 1 to 3 usually; calyx and petals greenish white, 
the latter more whitish; filaments similar in color, anthers yellow. 
Represented by number 12108, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
Gathered in damp somewhat gravelly soil of woods along 
the Pauala river at 750 feet altitude. 
Eugenia banaba Elm. n. sp. 
A small erect tree; stem 7 m. high and 2 dm. thick, crook- 
ed not straight, its main branches arising from near the middle; 
wood moderately hard, odorless and tasteless, dirty white, 
becoming reddish tinged toward the center; bark smooth, yellow- 
ish gray; branchlets widely spreading, the ultimate ones lax 
and somewhat drooping, terete, grayish brown. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, mostly descending, flat or slightly recurved toward 
the blunt obtuse to acute apex, paler green beneath, glabrous, 
drying similarly dull brown on both sides, opposite, scattering 
along the branchlets, not numerous, oblong, at the base also 
obtuse to acute, the average blades 1 dm. long by 2 em. wide at 
the middle, often larger or smaller, the entire edges more or less 
crinkled; midrib rather conspicuous beneath, faintly furrowed 
above; lateral nerves ascending, very obscure beneath, about 7 
pairs, the basal pair running parallel with the margins and unit- 
ing with the ends of the oth»r nerves 3 mm. below the edge, re- 
ticulations none; petiole 1 to 1.5 em. long. Inflorescence ter- 
minal, much exceeded by the foliage, 3 to 5 em. long; peduncle 
usually solitary, stout, smooth and green, when old grayish brown, 
only few ‘branched above the middle, terete; buds globose, 
yellowish green, 1.25 em. in diameter; flowers slightly odorous, 
solitary and sessile at the ends of the branchlets; calyx broadly 
campanulate, nearly 1 em. high, 2.5 em. wide with the segments, 
globose in the bud state, yellowish green, the basal pseudostalk 
very short; segments 4, persistent, in 2 unequal pairs, thick, as- 
cendingly spreading, quite rigid, thinner toward the margins, 
short and broadly ovately rounded, the larger ones 1.25 cm. 
wide, 5 to 7.5 mm. high, the marginal portion yellowish white; 
petals ovately rotund or suborbicular, at least 1.5 cm. long, 
