2356 LEAFLET: OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arn 
small bracts or mere bract vestiges, paniculately rebranched | 
flowers usually few clustered toward the distal end of th! 
ultimate branehes, all glabrous, odorless; calyx turbinate, 5i 
mm long, 4 mm across the truncate rims, smooth though slight-| 
ly angular, dull or subglaucous green; corolla creamy white, cir- 
eularly concavo-convex, eaducous, eglandular, submembranous, 
creamy white, 2,5 mm across, inserted upon the calyx rim; sta- 
mens indefinite, strongly inflexed before anthesis; filaments fili- 
form, the longer ones 4 mm, the inner ones much shorter, point- 
ed at apex, cremeus; anthers pale yellow, 0.25 mm or less across, 
orbicular, emarginate at hase, laterally dehiscent, these hyaline 
cell walls spreading after anthesis; ovary deeply imbeded; 
style terete, much thicker than the filaments, tapering toward 
the apex; stigma small. 
Type specimen number 14081, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- | 
ober, 1912. : | 
Collected in humus covered damp earth among large 
stones along the wooded Catagan creek flat at 3500 feet al- 
titude. ''Langawisan" in Manobo. Dedicated to QU. F. Baker, 
classmate at Standford University and now professor of agron- 
omy in the College of Agriculture, University of the Philip- . 
pines, Los Bafios. | ji 
The leaves are very similar to those of Eugenia livida ^, 
Eim., but otherwise entirely distinct. eh 
Eugenia urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 
Lax and suberect under shrub; stem 5 em thick, 3 to | 
5 m high, branched above the middle; wood hard, bres | 
except the thin outer white portion, without odor or tà».  "'" . 
bark smooth, yellowish gray on the surface, nearly íestaceus- 
otherwise; main branches spreading, crookedly rebranched; ~ 
twigs divaricately disposed, very smooth, terete, dull brown when 
dry. Leaves opposite, descending, coriaceous, shining green | 
above, relatively yellowish green beneath, curing dull reddish 
.browu, entire, the quite abruptly acuminate to caudate apex 
recurved, base rounded and auriculately lobed, oblong, 2.5 | 
dm long by 8 cm wide; petiole 3 to 5 mm long, very thick, 
fluted above; midrib deeply caniculate above, prominent be- | 
