316 MERRILL. 



long, 5 to 6 cm wide, corymbose, 3-branched from the base, the 

 branches trichotomous, the ultimate branchlets bearing from 3 

 to 5 sessile flowers, the nearly mature buds oblong-ellipsoid or 

 narrowly obovoid-ellipsoid, about 5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, Bur. Sci. 13911 Ramos, 

 January, 1912, in forests. 



A species manifestly very closely allied to Eugenia paucivenia C. B. Rob., 

 differing in its smaller, differently shaped, distinctly petioled leaves which 

 are acute at the base, its more densely flowered inflorescence, and its 

 apparently somewhat smaller flowers. 



EUGENIA TENUIPES sp. nov. § Jambosa. 



Species E. bataanensis simillima et valde afRnis, differt pedi- 

 cellis tenuibus, valde elongatis, usque ad 12 cm longis. 



A small tree, quite glabrous, the branches terete, grayish or 

 reddish, slender, the ultimate branchlets 1 to 1.5 mm in diameter. 

 Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, chartaceous, oblong-ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, 5 to 12 cm long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide, rather pale 

 and somewhat shining when dry, the lower surface paler than 

 the upper, narrowed to the acute or rarely somewhat rounded 

 base, the apex slenderly and sharply acuminate, the acumen 

 usually about 1 cm long; nerves irregular, distant, about 6 on 

 each side of the midrib, anastomosing and forming an undulate 

 submarginal nerve about as prominent as the primary lateral 

 ones ; petioles about 2 mm long. Flowers axillary and terminal, 

 solitary, white, their pedicels very slender, elongated, 4 to 12 cm 

 long, with 2 minute bracteoles in the lower one-fifth or one- 

 sixth. Calyx jointed to the pedicel, funnel-shaped in anthesis, 

 about 2 cm long, narrowed below to the slender stalk, about 1.8 

 cm wide, the lobes distinct, rounded, in fruit becoming ovoid 

 and about 2 cm long and wide. Petals free. Stamens very 

 numerous. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, For. Bur. 19608 Curran 

 (type), January, 1912, Bur. Sci. 13963 Ramos. I refer here also Bur. Sci. 

 7367 Ramos, from Claveria, Cagayan Province, previously considered by 

 Doctor Robinson in his treatment of the Philippine Myrtaceae " as Eugenia 

 bataanensis Merr. Doctor Robinson notes that this Cagayan specimen differs 

 from the typical form of Eugenia bataanensis Merr., in its leaves being 

 acute at the base. Additional material shows that the peculiar character 

 of the inflorescence, the very long and slender pedicel, is constant, and 

 hence the form is described as new. Unquestionably closely allied to Euge- 



"This Journal 4 (1909) Bot. 348. 



