350 
ROBINSON. 
mm in diameter at the base of the lobes, projecting about 6 mm beyond 
the ovary; calyx-lobes 4, unequal, widely rounded, 1-2 mm long, 4.5-6 
mm wide; petals 4 or sometimes 5, 6-8 mm in diameter; staminal disk 
somewhat thick; stamens about 300, their filaments 6—10 mm long, their 
anthers oblong, 1 mm long, 0.6 mm wide; ovary 2-celled, with few ovules; 
style at least 1 cm long. 
A tree 9 m high, with long drooping branches, its ultimate branches 
covered by purplish bark, together with the peduncles conspicuously 
4-angled and 4-winged; leaves opposite, borne on petioles 5-6 mm long, 
the lamina coriaceous, olivaceous-brown and shining on the upper surface, 
purplish-brown beneath, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 20-32 cm long, 
3.5-6 cm wide, shallowly cordate at the base, gradually narrowed from a 
short distance above the base to the usually falcate apex; veins on each 
side of the midrib 50-60, not very close, intervening veins sometimes 
nearly as prominent as the primary, suhmarginal vein distinct, leaving 
a leaf-border 1-1.5 mm wide with inconspicuous veins only. 
Palawan, Iwaliig River, Merrill 760. 
11. Eugenia gigantifolia Merrill sp. nov. 
Floribus cymosis, pedicellatis, articulatis, caulinis, tetrameris; foliis 
subsessilibus, oblanceolatis, permagnis, basi leviter c-ordatis, apice rotun- 
datis. 
Flowers cymose, borne on small tubercles on the stem or older branches, 
1-9' flowers in each fascicle, the pedicels 7—13 mm long, articulated with 
the flowers, when solitary themselves also articulated, terete or quadran- 
gular, not or only slightly swollen at their apices, bracteoles paired, very 
short and inconspicuous but comparatively wide at their bases : calyx 
turbinate, in all 2. 2-2. 5 cm long, at anthesis about 1.3 cm in diameter 
at the apex of the tube, at the base more or less differentiated into a 
pseudostalk about 5 mm long, at the apex forming 4 unequal lobes, the 
larger pair 6-7.5 mm long, 11-12 mm wide, the smaller 4-5 mm long, 
8-10 mm wide, all rounded at the apex ; petals 4, orbicular but truncate 
at the base, 12 mm in diameter; staminal disk thick, conspicuous; 
stamens 400-500, the filaments 2-3 cm long, the anthers 1.5-1. 8 mm 
long; ovary 2-celled, with numerous ovules; style slender, tapering, 
1.8-2 cm long, in fruit attaining a length of 4.5 cm: fruit urceolate, 
13 mm long, 17 mm wide, the calyx-tube forming a rim for about 4 mm, 
the calyx-lobes more or less persistent; 2-celled, its walls 1.5 mm in 
thickness, each cell containing one seed ; seeds compressed, orbicular- 
ovate in outline, 1 cm in diameter, their testa probably brownish. 
A tree 12-20 m high, with a trunk 20^10 cm in diameter, the leaf- 
bearing branches 3- or 4-angled, the bark yellowish to reddish-brown; 
leaves opposite or in whorls of 3 or 4, subsessile, the petioles only 1-2 
mm long, but 6-9 mm width, becoming stout midribs projecting strongly 
from the under surface of the lamina ; the lamina coriaceous, oblanceolate, 
