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slightly clecurrent acuminate, rather pale when dry, shining, with numerous 
scattered small dark colored glands on the lower surface, the veins very numerous, 
obscure, obscurely anastomosing; petioles about 4 mm. long. Panicles terminal and 
in the upper axils, 3 to 7 cm. long, the Ijranches spreading-ascending, the flowers 
umbellately disposed at the ends of the short branchlets. Buds elavate. Flowers 
slender, nearly 1 cm. long, sessile in umbellate fascicles of 2 to 3 or more flowers 
each, the ealj^x pi'oper subglobose, 2 mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter, truncate or 
very obscurely 4-lobed, abruptly contracted below to the C mm. long psendostalk, 
glabrous. Petals 4, pink or white, suborbicular, about 2 mm. in diameter, free. 
Stamens indefinite; filaments 2 to 2.5 mm. long, thickened below; anthers less 
than 0.5 mm. long. 
(2747 Borden) March, 1905; (2821 Mei/er) Mai'ch, 1905. In forests 500 
to (100 m. 
8. E. congesta Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 35 (1900) 49, § Byzygium. 
(150, 448 Whitford) May, July; (6890 Elmer) November. On exposed ridges 
in the mossy forest above 1,200 m. Endemic. 
9. Eugenia densinervia Merrill, sp. nov. § Hyzygium. 
A tree reaching a height of 25 m. Branches glabrous, light brown or grayish, 
terete, the ultimate branchlets strongly 4-angled. Leaves oblong elliptical to 
obovate elliptical, the apex broad, rarely obscurely acute, ^usually more or less 
narrowed to the acute or cuneate base, coriaceous, glabrous, pale wdien dry, 
shining above, 11 to 18 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, the nerves numerous, close, 
not distinct, parallel, anastomosing and forming a faint intramarginal nerve, the 
low'er surface with numerous scattered obscure glands; petioles stout, 1.5 to 2 cm. 
long. Inflorescence a terminal cymose panicle 7 cm. long or less, the rhachis and 
branches stout, somewdiat angled, the latter often 5 cm. long, ascending, flow^er 
bearing above only, the ultimate branchlets short, stout, each with about 3 flowers. 
Flowers white, about 1 cm. long. Caly.x funnel-shaped, sessile or nearly so, 
about 6 mm. long, glabrous, obscurely 4-lobed, subtended by 2 or 3 small 
bracteoles. Corolla ealyptrately deciduous, the petals eonnivent into a circular 
calyptra 5 to 6 mm. in diameter. Stamens indefinite; filaments 5 to 0 mm. long; 
anthers nearly 1 mm. long. Staminal disc nearly 1 mm. thick. Fruit sub- 
globose to ovoid, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, erowmed by the calyx rim. 
(1249 Whitford) May, 1905; (719, 813, 1178, 1815, 2921 Borden) May, 1904, 
to March, 1905. In forests 200 to 000 m. 
10. E. glaucicalyx Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 35 (1900) 50. § Byzygium. 
(3949 Merrill) March; (817, 820, 1250, 2748 Borden) June, March. In forests 
at about 000 m. Endemic. 
11. E. javanica Lam. (?) Duthie 1. c. 474. § Jamhosa. 
(193 Barnes) January. In forests at 350 m., material in poor condition for 
identification. 
12. E. jambolana Lam.; Duthie 1. e. 499. § Byzygium. 
{Whitford) . In thickets below' 100 m., common wild and cultivated through- 
out the Philippines. Tropical Asia to Malaya and Australia. T., Dnhat, Lumhoy. 
13. E. leptantha Wight; Duthie 1. c. 484. § Byzygium. 
(2640, 2800 Meyer) February, March; (803, 827 Borden) May, June; (294 
Whitford) May. In forests 600 to 800 m. Widely distributed in British India, 
Malaya, and Australia. T., Carra. 
14. E. luzonensis comb. nov. Jamhosa^ luzonensis Meir. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17 
(1904) 37. § Jamhosa. 
(83 Barnes) November; (107, 357 Whitford) Ajull, June; (172 MerriU) 
Decades Phil. Forest FI., coll. Barnes, April; ((i081 Elmer) November; (019, 
058, 1197 Borden) April, August. In fore.sts along the river 100 to 200 m. 
Endemic. T., Malariihat, Malarnhat nw, pula. 
