2354 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. VII, Arr. 1 
Eugenia holmani Elm. 1. sp. 
A medium sized tree; trunk 5 dm thick, 15 m high, 
terete, straight, branched from above the middle; wood mod- 
erately hard, the thin outer portion white, otherwise later- 
icius, odorless and without taste; branches numerously and 
crookedly rebranched, the ultimate ones comparatively short, 
twigs terete; bark very thick, epidermis grayish white or 
when young brown, surface smooth and thinly scaling, the inner 
portion deep reddish brown. Foliage membranous or nearly 
so, chiefly horizontal, folded and strongly recurved toward 
their acute to acuminate apex, base acute to obtuse, glab- 
rous, sublucid above, the two sides curing unequally blackish 
brown, variable in size, the average ones 1 dm long by 
8.75 cm wide at the middle, opposite, rather numerous, 
margins entire, oblong; petiole grooved along the upper side, 
glabrous, black on the dry specimens, 5 to 8 mm long; 
midrib conspicuous beneath, flat on the upper side, curing 
blackish; lateral nerves fine, divaricate, 9 to 11 on each 
side. their tips interarching and forming a submarginal faint 
line 3 to 4 mm below the edge, frequently branched or 
with secondary ones intervening, minutely punctate beneath, 
reticulations equally visible from both sides. Inflorescence 
lateral or from the lower leaf axils, divaricate, solitary, oc- 
casionally in pairs but usually in small clusters, averaging 3 cm 
long, divaricately branched from below the middle; branches 
more or less angular, only sparingly rebranched, glabrous 
and turning black upon drying; flowers 1 to 3-clustered 
toward the distal ends of the ultimate stalks, sessile or 
subsessile or when solitary appearing upon 1 to 3 mm long 
pedicels, all branchlets without bracts or bract vestiges; bud 
obovoid; calyx short turbinate toward the base, the upper 
portion with 4 roundly pointed segments, coriaceous, punc- 
tate, glandular, 4 mm across the widest portion, ochroleucus 
except the red segments; petals caducous, also ochroleucus, 
2 mm across, orbicular, margins hyaline, densely pellucid 
glandular, 4, alternating with the calyx segments; stamens 
numerous, inwardly curved, ultimately spreading, very unequal 
in length; filaments relatively thick, yellowish white, pointed 
at apex, the longer ones 3 mm in length; anthers 0.33 mm 
