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ROBINSON. 
terminal. The common name given by Blanco Malaruhat na pula, is often used 
for E. luzonensis, and it is by no means unlikely that be confused the two closely 
allied species. 
The synonym E. cymosa is merely based upon Vi Haas's identification with it of 
Blanco’s species, to which it has no close alliance. E. cymosa Lam. has not been 
found in the Philippines. 
Endemic. 
24. Eugenia rubropurpurea sp. nov. 
Inflorescentiis cymosis, caulifloris; floribus breviter pedicellatis, tetra- 
meris, mediocris, rubropurpureis : foliis anguste ellipticis, basi acutis, 
apice breviter obtuseque acuminatis, venis utrinque 25—30. 
Flowers borne on very short tubercles on the older parts of the branches 
below the leaves, the cymes fascicled, usually 3-flowered, either distinct 
as far as the tubercle or united with other cymes, the flowers articulated 
with the pedicels and the latter once or twice articulated, the ultimate 
pedicels 1.5-2 mm long, the entire fascicle not exceeding 3 cm in length, 
but of greater diameter: calyx nearly campanulate, 1—1.2 cm long, 
including a pseudostalk 2-3 mm long, the apex of the tube at anthesis 
about 7 mm in diameter, bearing 4 broadly ovate rounded lobes 3-4 
mm long; petals 4, orbicular or orbicular-ovate, 7.5 mm long, 6.5-8 
mm wide, rounded at the apex, usually with many veins and several large 
but not very conspicuous glands; staminal disk conspicuous; stamens 
nearly 200, their filaments 1.5— 1.7 cm long, their anthers versatile, 
yellowish, lanceolate, 0. 7-0.8 mm long: ovary inferior, 2-celled, or when 
young with 2 false partitions at the base, each cell containing several 
ovules; style 2.2 cm long or slightly longer in fruit, terete, slender. 
A small tree about 5 mm high, its trunk 8 cm in diameter, the bark 
of the younger branches gray to grayish-brown, smooth or only slightly 
striate; leaves with petioles 1-2 cm long and 2-5 mm in diameter, often 
conspicuously annular-rugose when old, the lamina coriaceous, narrowly 
elliptic to elliptic, 25-33 cm long, 5.2-10.5 cm wide, acute and somewhat 
decurrent at the base, at the apex shortly and obtusely acuminate ; 
primary lateral veins on each side of the midrib 25-30, with some of the 
intervening veins almost equally prominent, the anastomoses fairly 
numerous, forming a vein about 1.5 mm from the margin, and a less 
conspicuous vein about 0.5 mm from the margin, the lower surface 
m i nutely glandular-lepi dote. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9386 (type), 92S0, 
9398, 9J/65 Whitford & Hutchinson. Bastlan, Isabela, For. Bur. 4-830 Hutchinson. 
25. Eugenia rubrovenia sp. nov. 
Inflorescentiis terminalibus, axillaribus, vel in ramis subtus foliis, 
brevibus, paucifloris; floribus parvis, sessilibus: calycis tubo turbinato, 
lobis 4; petalis liberis: foliis breviter petiolatis vel subsessilibus, charta- 
ceis, ellipticis vel elliptieo-oblanceolatis, basi acutis, apice acuminatis; 
venis utrinque 11—15. 
