2358 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vou. VII, And. i 
or horizontal, flat or only the abruptly acute point recurved 
opposite, scattered, glabrous, velvety dark green above an 
yellowish green beneath when fresh, curing very unequall 
brown on the two sides, diverse in size, entire, base obtuse’, 
elliptic to oblongish, very minutely black punctate beneath. | 
the larger or lower lamina 2 dm long by 8 em wide, the! 
average one 5 to 13 cm; petiole less than 5 mm long, relative! 
ly thick and caniculate along the upper side, leaving large fj 
scars after falling; midrib raised beneath, sunken above; |). 
lateral nerves 9 to 11 on each side, ascendingly curved, alse a. 
conspicuous beneath, their ends united into a submarginal |} 
line 2 to 3 mm below the edge, cross bars very faint. Flowers Ó N 
in small sessile clusters from the leaf axils or from the |) 
branchlets, 1.25 cm across when in full anthesis, slightly 
fragrant; calyx very short obconic, the buds globose and dark 
green, smooth, with 4 spreading calyx segments; sepals 6 
mm long, united toward the base, spreading, coriaceous, the 
inner pair with subhyaline margins, broadly ovate to rotund, hd 
occasionally gland dotted; the widely spreading petals similar | 
in size and shape, white or only slightly tinged with EA 
low, hyaline margined, minutely glandular; stamens arm- ` 
from the inner side of the calyx cavity, the outer onip- 
mm long, the inner ones much shorter; filaments glab | 
and subfleshy, cremeus; anthers ovately elliptic or orbieular, | 
0.25 mm or less across, subbasifixed; style 5 mm long, 
fleshy, glabrous, terete, slightly pointed toward apex; ovary 
surface disk-like. 
Type specimen number 14118, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- | 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
Discovered in reddish soil mixed with stones upon a | 
densely humus covered forested incline at 4250 feet altitude I 
of Cawilanan peak. Only seen one tree. ''Pagbalayan"' in 
the Manobo dialect. 
To be compared with Eugenia rubrivenia C. B. Rob., 
but the floral parts of our specimen appear—. ice as large, 
leaf veins not reddish, and with other distinctive marks. 
