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have not encountered a native who knows a fruit by the above name. The 

 tree is very common on Mount Arayat, and is common and widely distrib- 

 uted in Tayabas Province, while Mr. Bolster informs me that it is also 

 common in the mountains of Cagayan Province, northern Luzon. Known 

 to the Pampangans as liagabug, and to the Tagalogs as Midbit, and, 

 according to Blanco, Lobas. 



Eugenia congesta, sp. nov. ^Syzygium. 



A small tree with obovate coriaceous, glabrous, obtuse or shortly abruptly 

 bhmt acuminate, densely veined leaves, and short terminal panicles, the 

 flowers small, sessile in clusters at the apices of the branches, the corolla 

 calyptrately deciduous. Branches reddish brown, glabrous, the branchlets 

 much compressed. Leaves 4 to 6 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, the upper 

 surface shining, the lower paler, pellucid-punctate, the margins rather 

 strongly revolute, base acute; nerves very numerous, parallel, the midrib 

 prominent beneath; petioles 6 to 8 mm. long. Panicles short, 2 to 3 cm. 

 long, densely flowered, the rhachis and branches much compressed, glabrous, 

 reddish brown. Flowers white, sessile, 6 to 8 mm. long including the 

 stamens, the buds obovoid. Calyx funnel shaped, the mouth with 4 short, 

 irregular teeth. Stamens numerous, 4 to 5 mm. long; anthers minute, 

 0.3 mm. long. Ovary 2-celled, each cell many ovuled. Fruit ovoid, 

 glabrous, dark purple when mature, about 2 cm. long. 



Type specimens : Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon ( 448, 150 

 Whitford), May and July, 1904. A small tree apparently related to 

 Eugenia descussata Duthie, growing in the mossy forest on exposed ridges 

 at an altitude of about 1,200 m. 



Eugenia whitfordii, sp. nov. ^Jambosa. 



A tree reaching a height of 20 m., with small, elliptical-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, few-nerved leaves, and 4-merous white flowers in few flowered 

 cymes which are loosely fasciculate on the lower portion of the trunk. 

 Branches light gray, glabrous, the bianchlets slender, reddish. Leaves 

 5 to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, mostly elliptical-lanceolate, but 

 varying from lanceolate to oblanceolate, the base acute, the apex acu- 

 minate, glabrous, subcoriaceous, dark above, pale beneath when dry; 

 nerves 5 to 6 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent beneath, 

 anastomosing in a marginal nerve, the reticulations obscure; petioles 

 reddish brown, 5 to 8 mm. long. Cymes 3 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 6 from each 

 tubercle, 2 to 4 flowered, the rhachis 3 to 5 cm. long, the pedicels 5 to 

 10 mm. long. Flower buds obovoid. Calyx funnel shaped, about 1 cm. 

 long, the lobes broader than long. Petals 4, deciduous, distinct, orbicular, 

 7 mm. in diameter. Filaments numerous, about 15 mm. long; anthers 

 1.5 mm. long. 



Type specimen: Lamao River, Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, 

 Luzon (4G8 Whitford), July, 1904; (1182 Borden), same locality and date. 



A tree reaching a diameter of 40 cm., with pale bark, growing on 

 forested slopes at an altitude of about GOO m. above the sea, well charac- 

 terized by its cauline inflorescence. 



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