ji. 
les 11, 1914] MYRTACEAE FROM Mount URDANETA 2353 
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ini toward apex slightly wavy, obovately elliptic, base obtuse, 
| i apex rounded or with a broadly obtuse point, curing very 
1 dark brown, the entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, 
(| the average lamina 7 em long by 3 cm wide above the 
"à middle; petiole 5 to 8 mm long, caniculate along the 
i upper sides, rugose and nearly flat above, prominent and 
almost black when dry, the 7 to 9 or even 11 pairs of 
lateral nerves very obscure, reticulations none. Inflorescence — 
lateral along the twigs and usually below the foliage, op- 
posite or in the axils of the leaves or from their scars, solitary 
or elustered, glabrous, 2 to 3 cm long or longer, ascending, 
rebranched from the middle or above it; branchlets drying 
black, angular or subterete, divaricate, the lower or longer 
ones less than 1 cm long, the upper ones very short and 
subtended by bract vestiges; flowers glomerated' at the distal 
end of the ultimate branchlets, subsessile or upon short re- 
latively thick pedicels; buds obconic; calyx sessile, short 
turbinate, verrucose with glands on the exterior, nearly 4 
mm across, the rim roundly 4-toothed; petals 4, alternating 
with the calyx teeth, spreading, subpersistent, 3 mm across, 
light yellow, the subhyaline margins nearly white, few nerved 
in the middle, provided with clear reddish glands in among 
the nerves, orbicular in shape; stamens incurved in the bud 
state, otherwise spreading, the outer ones about 3 mm long, 
| inserted upon the inner calyx rim; filaments glabrous, fleshy, 
|| the distal pointed portion dark brown in the dry state; anther 
E } 0.25 mm across, short ovoid, subbasifixed, cordate at base, 
apex blunt pr emarginate, laterally dehiscent, the emptied 
cells spreading; cap of ovary short canical, extended into a 
- short eomparatively thick style; stigma terminal as large as 
4 the style. 
Type specimen number 13826, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sep- 
tember, 1912. 
Discovered in humus covered rocky soil of dense woods 
along the ridge above lake Danao at 5250 feet altitude. 
**Talingahon”” in Manobo. 
Apparently most closely related to Eugenia similis Merr. 
as far as the Philippine species are concerned. Its inflores- 
cence strongly resembled that of certain species of Vernonia. 
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