2352 LEAFLETS OF PuiLtPPINE BOTANY [Von VII, Art. 1 
and relatively short, all greenish; the obovoidly globose buds 
yellowish green; flowers odorless, umbellately clustered at 
the distal end of the ultimate branchlets, occasionally sol- 
itary or in pairs; pedicels also angular, glaucous green, 3 
to 4 mm long, glabrous, ebracteolate; calyx glabrous, short 
cup shaped, smooth, yellowish on the exterior, 3 mm high, | 
fully as broad across the truncate top; petals stramineus 
caducous, becoming detached as a flattened cone-like calyptra, 
at least 3 mm across, radially striate, with few large glands 
on the exterior, mucronately pointed, enclosing the stamens 
and inserted upon the thick calyx rim; stamens similar 
in color, the inner ones much shorter, subpersistent, inserted 
upon the inner calyx rim, strongly inflexed in the bud 
state, widely spreading in anthesis; filaments filiform, glabrous, 
the longer ones 5 mm, pointed at the apex; anthers pale 
yellow, scarcely more than 0.25 mm across, brown apiculate, 
the round lobes subhyaline, auriculate at the base, versatile; 
ovary sunken in the calyx cup, its apex flatly conical, 
yellow, extended in a short thick style; stigma terminal, 
about as thick as the style. Young fruits flatly globose. 
Type specimen number 13865, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sep- 
tember, 1912. 
These magnificent trees were observed only in stony or 
gravelly flats of the Minusuang river at 500 feet altitude 
and along the smaller creek beds up to 1500 feet above sea 
level. All Manobos know it as ''Binacag." 
Eugenia vernonioides Elm. n. sp. 
A middle sized tree: stem 3 dm thick, subterete, 12 m 
high, branched from the middle; main branches ascending, 
ultimately spreading and numerously rebranched; twigs erect 
` or ascendingly curved, terete; wood hard and heavy, sappy 
white on the outside, brownish tinged toward the center, 
odorless and tasteless; bark smooth or roughened with lenticels, 
grayish and more or less mottled when old, the young portion 
and the hypodermis when old latericius. Leaves opposite, 
ascending, glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, shallowly folded on 
the upper much darker and sublucid green surface, the sides 
