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branchlets very slender, the ultimate ones about 1 mm in diam- 
eter, pale or straw-colored, usually terete, sometimes slightly 
compressed. Leaves opposite, pale when dry, of the same color 
and somewhat shining on both surfaces, oblong-elliptic, 6 to 
10 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute 
base and to the rather slenderly and sharply acuminate apex, 
minutely glandular-puncticulate on both surfaces; primary lat- 
eral nerves about 25 on each side of the midrib, slender, not 
prominent, scarcely more distinct than are the secondary nerves 
and reticulations, densely arranged; petioles about 1 cm long. 
Inflorescence cymose, lateral, from the branches of the second 
year’s growth below the leaves, shortly peduncled, about 5 cm 
long, one or two at a node, the cymes few, branches usually 
three, the two lateral ones more or less spreading. Flowers 
white, two or three sessile at the apex of each branchlet. Calyx 
funnel-shaped, about 7 cm long, mouth truncate, about 4 mm 
in diameter, with four, broad, short, obscure lobes, the lobes 
2.5 to 3 mm wide, less than 0.5 mm long. Calyptra about 5 
mm in diameter. Style 1 cm long. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga (Olutanga Island), For. Bur. 13670 
Foxivorthy, Demesa, & Villamil, May 20, 1912 (type), in forests at the 
edge of the mangrove, the roots apparently extending into salt water. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, Pasacao, For. Bur. 10^86 Curran, May, 1908 
(sterile), on hills near the sea. 
A species belonging in the group with Eugenia perpallida Merr. and 
E. parva Merr., but distinguished from both, among other characters, by 
its lateral inflorescences. 
EUGENIA NITIDISSIMA sp. nov. § Syzygium. 
Arbor glabra circiter 10 m alta, ramis teretibus, brunneis, 
ramulis tenuibus, acute 4-angulatis; foliis lanceolatis, coriaceis, 
eglandulosis, usque ad 5 cm longis, basi acutis, apice tenuiter 
longe caudato-acuminatis, in siccitate pallidis vel brunneis, utrin- 
que valde nitidis, nervis lateralibus tenuissimis, obscuris; cymis 
terminalibus et in axillis superioribus, usque ad 3 cm longis; 
calycibus in siccitate glaucescentibus, 4 ad 5 mm longis, verru- 
culosis, breviter 5-lobatis. 
A glabrous tree about 10 m high, the branches slender, terete, 
reddish brown, the branchlets reddish-brown, rather sharply 
4-angled, very slender, mostly 1 mm in diameter or less. Leaves 
opposite, lanceolate, coriaceous, 3 to 5 cm long, 1 to 1.7 cm wide, 
usually rather pale when dry or the upper surface brownish, 
both surfaces strongly shining, very smooth, eglandular, base 
acute, apex long and slenderly caudate-acuminate, the acumen 
straight or slightly falcate, blunt; lateral nerves very slender, 
