20$ ALABASTRA BORNEENSIA. 



pedicellatis, ad apices ramulorum densissime confertis; petalis 

 concavis, orbicularibus, exterioribus 2 mm. diametro, interiori- 

 bus minoribus, liberis, ealyptratim deciduis. 



A glabrous tree, the branches and brahchlets terete, the 

 former dark-brown, somewhat wrinkled, the latter brown, 

 striate or wrinkled, the ultimate ones 2 to 3 mm. in diameter. 

 Leaves opposite, coriaceous, elliptic, 10 to 12 cm. long, 5 to 

 6.5 cm. wide, the apex rather prominently obtuse-acuminate, 

 the base acute or decurrent-acuminate, margins recurved, when 

 dry pale or pale-greenish, somewhat shining, the upper sur- 

 face distinctly pitted, the lower glandular; primary lateral 

 nerves slender, indistinct, about 20 on each side of the midrib, 

 spreading, straight, scarcely more prominent than are the 

 secondary ones and the reticulations, about equally distinct on 

 both surfaces, anastomosing with the slender marginal nerves 

 about 2 mm. from the edge of the leaf; petioles about 5 mm, 

 long. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose, branched from the 

 base, the branches normally trichotomo.us, the axis, branches, 

 and branchlets brown or somewhat reddish-brown, peculiarly 

 rugose and coral-like. Flowers very numerous, densely crowd- 

 ed at the tips of the ultimate branches forming subcapitate 

 glomeri 8 to 10 mm. in diameter, the buds obovoid, 2.5 mm. 

 long, the pedicels about 1 mm. long, the bracteoles obsolete or 

 nearly so. Calyx tube 2 mm. long, narrowed below, black when 

 dry, terete, shining, the teeth 5, about 1 mm. wide and 0.3 

 mm. long, obtuse. Petals calyptrate but not connate, the 

 outer one concave, orbicular, 2 mm. in diameter, the other 

 four closely imbricate within it, smaller, easily separable, 1 to 

 1.5 mm. in diameter. Stamens numerous, inflexed in bud. 



Sarawak, Native collector 1S69 (Bur. ScL). 



In leaf-form and texture, but not in color, this species 

 resembles Eugenia capitata, Merr., but is entirely different in 

 its inflorescence and in its smaller flowers. It is well charac- 

 terized by the rugose, brown or reddish-brown coral-like axis 

 branches and branchlets of its inflorescence and its densely 

 disposed flowers. 



Eugenia capitata, sp. nov. § Jambosa. 



Arbor glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis oppositis, 

 ellipticis ad ovato-ellipticis, coriaceis, usque ad 11 cm. longis, 

 perspicue obtuseque acuminatis, basi rotundatis ad subacutis, 

 supra nitidis, castaneis, dense puncticulatis, subtus brunneis, 

 gland ulosis, nervis utrinque numerosis, densis, tenuibus, indis- 

 tinctis; inflorescentiis terminalibus et in axillis superioribus, 

 densissime multifloris ; floribus omnibus sessilibus in capitulis 

 1.5 ad 3 cm. diametro dispositis, 5-meris ; alahastro oblongo- 

 obovoideo, 5 ad 6 mm. longo, calycis dentibus brevibus, latis, 

 rotundatis; petalis 5, valde imbricatis, exterioribus majoribus, 

 2 ad 3 mm. diametro, baud connatis sed calyptratim deciduis. 



; Jour. Straits Branch 



