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‘g gaust 11, 1914] MYRTACEAE FROM MOUNT URDANETA 2351 
Type specimen number 13760, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt.! Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sep- 
tember, 1912. 
Diseovered on a minor summit peak at 5750 feet alti. 
i tude, in a wet cold densely moss laden and wind beaten 
| place partly extending over the crest of a precipice. The 
Manobo name is ''Magpong-pong." 
Its foliage is that of Eugenia acrophila C. B. Rob. but 
fruits are different. The writer first took it to be a species 
of Vaccinium. 
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Eugenia binacag Elm. n. sp. 
Large tree; trunk terete, 1 to 1.5 m in diameter, 20 to 
30 m high, mostly branched toward the top; wood hard, 
heavy, burly, odorless, slightly bitter, the outer portion 
white though abruptly changing to a testaceus brown which 
becomes darker toward the center; bark greenish, gray when 
old, peeling in elongated thin plates more or less twisting 
about the stem, usually one end separating and curved from 
the surface leaving the brown nether side exposed, the plates 
finally falling and piling up around the base of the old 
trees; main branches divaricate, rebranched; twigs glabrous, 
green, angled, rather slender and lax, usually ascendingly 
curved. Leaves alternate, subchartaceous, subpendant, shal- 
lowly conduplicate, recurved at the acute to acuminate apex, 
base obtuse or obtusely rounded, glabrous, deeper green on 
the upper surface, sides coarsely wavy, ovately oblong or 
the smaller ones broadly lanceolate, the average blades 12 
em long by 5 cm wide below the middle, entire, curing 
A dark brown on both sides; petiole entirely glabrous, 1.25 em 
7 long, stout, compressed, shallowly grooved along the upper 
| side; midnerve stout and  edged beneath, drying brown, 
obscurely impressed on the upper side of the leaf; lateral 
nerves 7 to 9 or even more on each side, ascending, 
i obscure, reticulations not evident. Panicle profuse, erect, all 
| terminal, glabrous, 1 to 1.2 dm long or longer, the lower 
| and longer branches subtended by leaves, the opposite branchlets 
freely rebranched from the middle, the larger ones compres- 
sed and fluted along the edges, the ultimate ones angular 
