x, c, 3 Merrill: New Species of Eugenia 221 
inflorescentiis e ramis vetustioribus, brevibus, paucifloris; caly- 
cis tubo circiter 1 cm longo, ore 1 cm diametro, inaequaliter 
4-lobato. 
A glabrous tree about 10 m high, the branches and branchlets 
terete, brownish, the latter smooth, very slender, the ultimate 
ones 1 to 2 mm in diameter. Leaves opposite, subcoriaceous, ob- 
long to oblong-elliptic, 7 to 13 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, sub- 
equally narrowed to the acute base and to the acuminate apex, 
the upper surface brown when dry, somewhat shining, the lower 
much paler; lateral nerves usually 8 or 9 on each side of the 
midrib, impressed on the upper surface, very prominent on the 
lower surface, distant, curved, anastomosing 3 to 6 mm from 
the margin, the marginal nerves as prominent as the lateral ones, 
somewhat arched, the primary reticulations lax, prominent, the 
secondary ones obsolete; petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers in 
very short, widely scattered, few-flowered inflorescences on the 
older branches, the rachis and branches less than 1 cm long, ap- 
parently 3 to 5 flowers in each inflorescence. Calyx-tube brown, 
narrowly funnel-shaped, about 1 cm long, 1 cm in diameter at the 
mouth, narrowed below to the acute base, the lobes 4, unequal, 
two ovate or suborbicular and 6 to 7 mm long, two subreniform, 
about 5 mm wide and 2 to 3 mm long. Style 3 cm long. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 17910 Barros, November, 1912, 
in dense forests, altitude about 20 meters, the fruits edible. Local name 
lobaggan. 
A species well characterized by its prominently nerved leaves and its 
very short, few-flowered inflorescences which are widely scattered on the 
older branches. It falls in the group with Eugenia squamifera and E. 
xanthophylla in Robinson’s arrangement of the Philippine species, but is 
entirely different from these and the other forms placed here. 
EUGENIA Ml RAN DAE sp. nov. § Jambosa. 
Arbor circiter 5 m alta, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 
sessilibus, ellipticis vel orbiculari-ellipticis, crassissime coriaceis, 
brunneis, nitidis, usque ad 7 cm longis, apice rotundatis ad ob- 
tusis, basi rotundatis ad distincte cordatis, nervis primariis utrin- 
que circiter 14, tenuibus, quam secundariis reticulisque vix magis 
distinctis; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 5 ad 8 cm longis, pauci- 
floris, cymosis; floribus in triadibus dispositis, calycibus infun- 
dibuliformibus, circiter 4 mm longis, distincte 4-lobatis. 
A tree about 5 m high, glabrous, the branches and branchlets 
terete, smooth, the ultimate branchlets 3 to 4 mm in diameter. 
Leaves very thickly coriaceous, sessile, brown and shining when 
dry, brittle, orbicular-elliptic, 5 to 7 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, 
