ALABASTBA BOENEENSIA. 213 



A tree, glabrous except the distinctly and rather densely 

 eastaneous-puberulent-papillose branchlets and inflorescences. 

 Brandies terete, reddish-brown or castaneous, slender, the bark 

 separating in elongated flakes, the branclilets usually 4-angled, 

 smooth, castaneous. Leaves opposite, subcoriaceous, oblong to 

 oblong-elliptic, 6 to 14 cm. long, 3 to 6 cm. wide, castaneous 

 and shining on both surfaces or the upper surface atro-casta- 

 neous, not punctate, the apex with a prominent obtuse acumen 

 about 1 cm. long, base acute ; primary lateral nerves about 25 

 on each side of the midrib, distinct as are the secondary ones 

 and the reticulations, spreading, anastomosing with the mar- 

 ginal veins about 2 mm. from the edge of the leaf; petioles 

 dark-brown or nearly black, 2 to 3 mm. long. Panicles corym- 

 bose, mostly terminal, usually about T cm. long, peduncled or 

 branched from the base, uniformly and minutely puberulent- 

 papillose, the branches mostly trichotomous, the flowers all 

 sessile in triads on the ultimate branclilets. Flowers white, 

 5-merous. the calyx, including the pseudo-stalk, about 6 mm. 

 long, glabrous or nearly so, terete, dark-brown when dry, 2 to 

 3 nun. wide at the throat, much narrowed below, the limb with 

 5 very shallow, rounded lobes, the subtending bracteoles oblong, 

 less than 1 mm. long. Petals imbricate in a calyptra, concave, 

 free, 3 to 4 mm. in diameter. Stamens indefinite, 6 to 8 mm. 

 long. 



Sarawak, Baram District, Baram, Hose 359 (type), 

 Xovember 18, 1894: Miri, Hose 675 April 20, 1895; Mount 

 Poe, Foxivortliy 223, May 24, 1908. 



I am inclined to refer here also Native collector 815, 1170, 

 2178 (Bur. Sri.), these specimens differing from the type 

 chiefly if not only in having the ultimate branchlets terete in- 

 stead of 4-angied. 



Eugenia castanea is well characterized by the flaky bark 

 on the branches, its short-petioled, castaneous, densely nerved, 

 eglandular leaves which are abruptly and obtusely acuminate, 

 and its puberulent-papillose branchlets and inflorescences. 



Eugenia kuchingensis, sp. nov. § Jambosa. 



Arbor glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis coriaceis, 

 in siccitate bruneis, ellipticis ad late oblongo-elliptieis, usque ad 

 20 cm. longis, obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis vel leviter acu- 

 minatis, eglandulosis, nervis utrinque circiter 15, tenuibus, 

 rectis, patulis, cum venis sub margine anastomosantibus, reti- 

 eulis obscuris vel saltern in pagina superiore obsoletis; paniculis 

 subcorymbosis, terminal ibus, usque ad 10 cm. longis; fforibus 

 circiter 1.5 cm. longis, in ramulis ultimis subcapitatis dis- 

 positis; calycis tubo turbinato 8 mm. longo, lobis inaequalibus. 



A glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets terete, usual- 

 ly. A. Soc, No. 77, 1917. 



