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extend to the Philippines. Blanco’s description does not apply 
in all particulars to the species as here interpreted, but I am 
of the opinion that this is the correct disposition of the plant 
he described. The native name malaruhat (literally ‘false 
duhat;” duhat—Eugenia cumini Merr.) is very loosely applied 
to numerous quite different species of Hugenia; in Rizal Prov- 
ince, that is the region immediately surrounding Manila, many 
of the natives insist that Hugenia clausa C. B. Rob. is the true 
malaruhat. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
June 7, 1916, there known as malaruhat (Merrill: Species Blan- 
coanae No. 978). 
Eugenia montana Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 416 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
291; ed. 8, 2 (1878) 175, t. 145, non DC.=EUGENIA CALUBCOB C. B. 
Rob. 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines and is 
very generally known as calubcob and cognate forms of this 
name. It was erroneously reduced by Fernandez-Villar to 
Eugenia macrocarpa Roxb., a. species that does not extend to 
the Philippines, and one distinctly different from the form de- 
scribed by Blanco. 
Illustrative specimens from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914, there known as calubcob (Merrill: Species 
Blancoanae No. 703): Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, March, 
1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 888). 
Calyptranthes ramiflora Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 420 (sp. nov.) (non 
Eugenia ramiflora Mig.) =Syzygium latifolium Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 
(1845) 294; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 181, non DC.=EUGENIA SIMILIS Merr. 
There is very little doubt as to the correctness of this re- 
duction. Blanco’s description agrees closely, and the species is 
rather common and widely distributed in central Luzon. His 
specimens of this particular species were from Batangas Prov- 
ince, Luzon. It was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Eugenia 
bracteata Roxb., var. roxburghii Duthie, but neither the species 
nor the variety extends to the Philippines. The present reduc- : 
tion of Blanco’s species is in accord with Robinson’s critical 
paper on Philippine Myrtaceae, Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) 
Bot. 386, 403. : 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914, there known as malaruhat (mala= “false” and 
duhat—Eugenia cumini Merr.) (Merrill: Species Blancoanae 
No. 669). | | | 
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