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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1916 
brownish. Leaves numerous, coriaceous, crowded, oblong-ellip- 
tic, olivaceous when dry, the lower surface greenish, not punctate, 
4 to 6 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the 
acute base and to the slenderly subcaudate-acuminate apex, the 
acumen blunt, about 1 cm long; lateral nerves slender, crowded, 
about 30 on each side of the midrib, the primary ones scarcely 
distinguishable from the secondary ones, anastomosing with a 
distinct submarginal nerve, the margins cartilaginous and dis- 
tinctly revolute; petioles 3 to 4 mm long, slender. Inflorescence 
terminal, 2 cm long or less, with few branches and few flowers, 
the flowers sessile, mostly in triads on the very short ultimate 
branchlets. Calyx ellipsoid, not funnel-shaped, about 5 mm long. 
Young fruit subglobose, about 1 cm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Kililibong, Bur. Sci. 28324 Ramos, 
August 18, 1915, in forests near the summit of the mountain, apparently 
at an altitude of about 1,000 meters. 
Manifestly very closely allied to Eugenia paucipunctata Merr., its leaves 
in size, shape, texture, and venation being almost identical with those of 
that species; they are not glandular-punctate however. The inflorescence 
is quite different, being shorter, with but very few, larger flowers, the 
calyx-tube ellipsoid, not funnel-shaped. 
EUGENIA SORSOGONENSIS sp. nov. § Jambosa. 
Arbor alta, glabra ramis ramulisque teretibus ; foliis oppositis, 
oblongis ad oblongo-obovatis, subcoriaceis, in siccitate suboliva- 
ceis, nitidis, haud puncticulatis, usque ad 11 cm longis, apice 
acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, distinctis, 
laxis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, e basi ramosis, subcorymbosis, 
circiter 7 cm longis, floribus in triadibus dispositis, numerosis, 
in alasbastro circiter 1 cm longo. 
A tall glabrous tree, the branches and branchlets terete, rather 
smooth, pale-brownish. Leaves opposite, oblong to oblong-obo- 
vate, subcoriaceous, 8 to 11 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, the apex 
rather prominently but shortly acuminate, base acute, the upper 
surface olivaceous or brownish-olivaceous, smooth and shining 
when dry, the lower surface much paler, not glandular-punctate ; 
lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, pro- 
minent, somewhat brownish, lax, curved, anastomosing, the re- 
ticulations lax ; petioles 5 to 8 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, 
corymbose, branched from the base, up to 7 cm long and at 
least as wide, rather many flowered. Flowers white, in triads 
at the tips of the ultimate branchlets, shortly pedicelled, the 
calyx-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, about 7 mm long, the lobes 
4, short, rounded. Petals 4, free. Stamens very numerous, 
elongated, slender. 
