fi 11, 1914] MYRTACEAE FROM Mount URDANETA 2349 
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1 f! castaneus except the gray surface; main branches ascending, 
n ultimately numerously rebranched; twigs reddish brown and 
| ascending; leaves descending, coriaceous, folded and strongly 
{C recurved, shining above, paler green beneath;  infrutescence 
l| erect, dark green even the reflexed calyx lobes. Its vernac- 
‘| ular Manobo name is ‘‘Balibadan.’’ 
il Represented by number 13728, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
f: Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, September, 1912. 
Eugenia livida Elm. n. sp. 
A small slender tree; stem 1 dm thick, crooked and sub- 
"^ terete, 7 to 10 m high, branched from above the middle; 
wood hard, white on the outside, gradually changing to the 
latericius heartwood; bark yellowish brown, smooth or sca- 
ling in small plates, otherwise of the same wood brown color: 
twigs laxly rebranched, horizontally spreading, the young 
portion glabrous and yellowish. Leaves opposite, scattered, 
similarly spreading or descending, the acuminate and sub- 
falcate tips recurved, very dark green above, light or yeilowish . 
green beneath, curing unequally brown on two sides, glabrous, 
| subchartaceous or subcoriaceous, obtuse at base, entire, oblong, 
the average ones 15 cm long by one third as wide across 
| the middle or a trifle below it; midrib in the dry state 
| deeper or reddish brown, shallowly caniculate along the upper 
4 surface, glabrous, very prominent beneath; lateral nerves 7 
to 11 pairs, strict, relatively prominent and similar in pro- 
minence, divaricate, the basal ascendingly curved pair arising 1 
em above the base of the lamina and forming conspicuous sub- 
marginal veins 5 mm below the edge, the balance of the nerves 
- straight, reticulations obsolete or none; petiole 5 mm long, also 
glabrous, caniculate, drying dark reddish brown. Flowers not 
| observed, Infrutescence in small clusters from the stem only, 
— hanging from roughened portions or outgrowths of the stem (tu- 
| bercles), upon brown and glabrous 2.5 cm long usually unbranch 
ed stalks; fruits when mature ranging from 1.5 to 3 cm across, 
usually flattened or. irregularly globose, smooth, hard, glabrous, 
terminated by the broad and rather thickened calyx rim, 
smooth and shining though rugose in the dry state, yellow- 
ish on the under or shaded side, otherwise light lividus. 
