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iF style; stigma terminating the tapering style. 
Type specimen number 13356, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran 
if (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 
, Found in moist compact leaf covered and well drained 
( soil of a forested ridged at 2000 feet above sea level. The 
NY Manobos call it ‘“‘Sangnanan.’’ Named after Prof. R. H. 
, Holman, a former member of the faculty of the College of 
i. Agriculture, University of the Philippines, Los Baños. 
| Its alliance is clearly with Eugenia atropunctata C. B. 
* Rob., though the leaves are different. By mistake it was 
distributed under Eugenia bakeri Elm. 
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Eugenia bakeri Elm. n. sp. 
A middle sized and upright tree; stem 2.5 dm thick, 12 
|^ m high, nearly straight, more or less wadded toward the base, 
| branched from above the middle; main branches ascending, 
^ crooked, ultimately numerously rebranched; twigs lax, ascend- 
| ing; wood hard and quite heavy, testaceus except the thin 
Ji whitish sapwood; bark smooth, yellowish gray on the surface, 
L otherwise latericius. Leaves opposite, scattered along the sub- 
terete and slender portion of the ultimate branches, coriaceous, 
j 4 horizontal or descending, glabrous, lucid above and much 
lighter or yellowish green beneath, marginal sides coarsely 
rugose especially toward the acuminate to subcaudate recurved 
iL tips, base obtuse, oblong, 1.5 dm long by 4.5 cm wide across 
I4 —the middle, occasional ones only one third as large, entire, 
$ deep brown when dry; petiole 5 mm long, blackish on the 
+ dry specimens, entirely glabrous; midrib prominent, caniculate 
along the upper surface, shining and reddish brown beneath; 
. lateral nerves also conspicuous, divaricate, 5 to 8 pairs, 
strongly united into a submarginal vein 5 mm below the 
edge, secondary nerves relatively faint and reticulations nu- 
merous. Inflorescence terminal, erect, solitary or more commonly 
2 to 3-clustered, 5 to 8 cm long, exceeded by the foliage; 
peduncle strict, slender, branched from above the middle, sub- 
terete, 3 cm long; branchlets relatively short, subtended by 
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