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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1916 
ad 8 cm longis, paniculatis; fructibus globosis, albidis, edulis, 
in siccitate circiter 6 mm diametro. 
A tall glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets slender, 
terete, brownish, rather smooth. Leaves coriaceous, oblong- 
obovate to broadly oblong-oblanceolate, 4 to 5.5 cm long, 1.5 to 
2.5 cm wide, the apex abruptly and shortly acuminate, gradually 
narrowed in the lower two-thirds to the acute or cuneate base, 
the upper surface olivaceous when dry, shining, the lower paler 
and distinctly glandular-punticulate with numerous dark-purplish 
glands ; lateral nerves very numerous, slender, indistinct, densely 
arranged; petioles about 5 mm long. Panicles terminal, 6 to 8 
cm long, the branches few, the lower ones up to 5 cm long, 
spreading-ascending, each bearing three secondary branches 
above the middle. Calyx immediately following anthesis some- 
what urceolate, truncate, about 3 mm long. Fruit white, fleshy, 
edible, when dry rather hard, pale, globose, about 6 mm in 
diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Bulusan, Bur. Sci. 23672 Ramos, 
September 4, 1915, in damp forests. 
A characteristic species in the group with small flowers, terminal in- 
florescence, and densely nerved leaves. It does not appear, however, to 
be especially closely allied to any of the previously described Philippine 
forms. 
EUGENIA DURA sp. nov. § Syzygium. 
Arbor alta glabra ramis ramulisque teretibus vel ramulis 
leviter compressis ; foliis oppositis, coriaceis, ellipticis ad oblongo- 
ellipticis, usque ad 9 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, 
apice breviter subcaudato-acuminatis, basi acutis, nitidis, in 
siccitate olivaceo-brunneis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis primariis 
utrinque circiter 15, tenuibus, margine revolutis; inflorescentiis 
terminalibus, corymbosis, floribus ut videtur in triadibus dis- 
positis ; fructibus in siccitate valde induratis, oblongo-ellipsoideis 
vel junioribus cylindraceis, usque ad 2.5 cm longis, brunneo- 
purpureis. 
A tall glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets terete, 
brownish, smooth, or the slender branchlets somewhat com- 
pressed. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 
7 to 9 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the 
acute base and to the rather slender and short subcaudate- 
acuminate apex, the acumen up to 1 cm long, blunt, when dry 
the upper surface strongly shining, very smooth, olivaceous- 
brownish, the lower surface much paler, not punctate; lateral 
nerves indistinct, the primary ones about 15 on each side of 
