220 ALABASTRA EORNEENSIA. 



usque ad 4 cm. loiigis; fforibus circiter 8.5 mm. longis ad 

 apicem ramulorum confertis sessilibus, bracteis bracteoKsque 

 hivoluerantibus ; calyci deorsum angustato, rugoso, glauces- 

 cente, lobis 5, rariter 4> bvatis rotundatis, 2 ad 2.5 mm. longis. 



A small straggling tree 3 to 4 m. high, entirely glabrous, 

 the branches terete, 2 to 3 mm. in diameter, purplish-brown, 

 smooth, shining, the younger ones with the remains of the 

 flaky or stringy cortex of the branchlets, the branchlets dis- 

 tinctly thicker than the ultimate branches, pale-brownish, pro- 

 minently 4-angled, the internodes thickened upward and dis- 

 tinctly 4-winged, the wings ending at the nodes in rounded 

 auricles. Leaves opposite, thickly coriaceous, ovate to oblong- 

 ovate, 9 to 11 em. long, 4 to 5.5 cm. wide, brownish or pale- 

 brownish when dry, sometimes slightly glaucous, the lower 

 surface paler than the upper, obscurely glandular beneath, 

 apex blunt-acuminate, base broadly rounded and distinctly 

 cordate, margins recurved ; lateral nerves about 15 on each side 

 of the midrib, usually obscure, faintly anastomosing; petioles 

 stout, 3 mm, long or less, reddish-brown, rugose, distinctly 

 undulate-winged. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, 

 cymose up to 4 cm. in length, the axis and branches pro- 

 minently 4-angled, pale-brownish, the flowers all sessile, 

 crowded at the apices of the branchlets, 5 to 7 on each branch- 

 let, subtended by a prominent involucre of pale-brownish 

 bracts and bracteoles, the bracts broadly ovate, obtusely acu- 

 minate, about 6 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, the bracteoles 

 narrowly oblong, 6 mm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide. Flowers 8 

 to 9 mm. long, the calyx-tube narrowed below, rugose when 

 dry, not .at all tuberculate, above about 3 mm. in diameter, 

 the lobes 5, broadly ovate, rounded, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, two 

 usually distinctly shorter than the other three. Petals orbi- 

 cular, 3 mm. in diameter. Filaments 6 to 7 mm. long. 



Sarawak, Mount Santubong, Native collector 2240 (Bur. 

 ' Sci.) (type), June, 1914; Foxworthij 4-4-^ June 7, 1908, on 

 the forested summit of a small peak, altitude about 300 meters, 

 known to the Malays as pala musu. 



A very characteristic species belonging in the group with 

 Eugenia zeijlanica, Wight, from which it is distinguished by 

 its larger leaves and flowers, very prominet bracts and bract- 

 eoles, non-tuberculate calyces, and other characters. It is 

 equally distinct from the other described forms in this small 

 group. 



Eugenia perparvifolia, sp. nov. § Jamoosa (Leptomyrtus, Mi- 

 quel). 



Arbor parva, 3 ad 6 m, alta, glabra, ramis ramulisque 

 tenuibus rubro-castaneis, ramis teretibus, ramulis distincte 4- 

 angulatis ; foliis ovatis ad ovato-lanceolatis, usque ad 1.4 cm. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



