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Eugenia longissima, sp. nov. ^Jmnbosa. 



A lax sluub about 3 m. high, with very long, narrow lanceolate leaves, 

 cordate at the base, and mostly solitary, pendulous, white flowers, 4 to 

 5 cm. in diameter, including the stamens, terminal and from the branches 

 below the leaves. Branches 4-angled and narrowly wing-margined, slender, 

 the older ones light gray, the yoimg parts reddish brown. Leaves nearly 

 sessile, 25 to 35 em. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, the base abruptly rounded, 

 deeply cordate, the sinus narrow, gradually tapering above to the slender, 

 scarcely acuminate apex, glabrous, shining, pale brown beneath; primary 

 nerves 20 to 26 on each side of the midrib, distant, anastomosing 

 and forming a marginal nerve, the secondary nerves nearly as prominent 

 as the primary, the reticulations lax. Flowers terminal, 1 or 2 from the 

 tips of the branchlets, or solitary on the branches below the leaves, 

 pendulous, white, the pedicel slender, jointed, 4 cm. long. Calyx disk 

 like. 2.5 cm. in diameter, the lobes reniform, spreading. Petals 4, broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, about 1.5 cm. long. Stamens very many. 



Type specimen: Sablan, Province of Benguet, Luzon (6218 Elmer), April, 

 1904. A lax shrub, not common, overhanging the banks of damp shaded 

 ravines along streams, well characterized by its large, pendulous flowers, 

 4-angled branches and very long, narrow leaves strongly cordate at the base. 



Eugenia glaucicalyx, sp. nov. %Syzygium. 



A tree reaching a height of 30 m., with ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 

 acuminate leaves, usually rounded at the base, pale beneath, the inflores- 

 cence axillary and terminal racemose panicles, the calyx oblong-obovate, 

 strongly wrinkled, densely covered with a silvery gray, minutely crystalline 

 bloom. Branches reddish bro^vn, glabrous, terete, slender. Leaves 9 to 

 17 cm. long, 2 to 4.5 cm. wide, the base rather abruptly rounded, some- 

 times slightly cordate, rarely subacute, tapering above to the usually 

 long, slender acuminate apex, shining above, pale and with few, minute, 

 scattered, dark colored glands beneath, but not pellucid-punctate, glabrous; 

 primary nerves about 20 on each side of the midrib, irregular, rather ob- 

 scure, scarcely more prominent than the secondary nerves and reticulations ; 

 petioles rugose, about 3 mm. long. Inflorescence 7 to 14 cm. long, the 

 rhachis and branches pale, glabrous, or slightly whitish crystalline like 

 the calyx, the branches spreading or ascending, few flowered, 2.5 cm. long 

 or less. Flowers, including the stamens, about 2 cm. long, white, sessile. 

 Calyx 8 to 9 cm. long, 3 to 4 mm. thick above, narrowed below to the short 

 pseudostalk, strongly longitudinally rugose wrinkled when dry, densely 

 covered with a crystalline silvery bloom, the lobes short. Petals 4, orbic- 

 ular to broadly ovate, very strongly imbricate, 3 to 4 mm. long, with few 

 pellucid glands, falling as a whole. Stamens many, about 1 cm. long, the 

 anthers 0.7 mm. long. Style equaling the anthers. 



Specimens examined, all from Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, 

 Luzon: (2748 Borden), March, 1905 (flower); (817, 826, 1250 Borden), 

 June, 1904 (all sterile); (3949 Merrill), March, 1905 (flower.) 



A large tree in the hill forests at an altitude of from 600 to 700 m. 

 above the sea, distinguished by its peculiar rugose calyces which are 

 covered with a silvery, minutely crystalline bloom. 



