A PRELIMINARY REVISION OF PHILIPPINE MYRTACEA3. 361 
at the base; petals and stamens unknown; staminal disk well developed; 
style slender, attaining a length of 4 cm; ovary containing 2 cells each 
with several ovules : fruit 2 cm in diameter, globose not including the 
persistent free portion of the calyx-tube or the more or less deciduous 
lobes, 2-celled with one seed in each. 
A tree 6-9 m high, its trunk 10-12.5 cm in diameter, covered with 
pinkish-gray bark, the ultimate branchlets terete, somewhat flattened at 
the enlarged nodes, the ultimate ones sometimes slightly angled, covered 
with bark varying in color from gray to brown; leaves borne on petioles 
1-4 mm long, the lamina chartaceous, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or 
elliptic-lanceolate, 10-20 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, the base cordate or 
merely obtuse, the apex acuminate, straight or subfalcate ; primary lateral 
veins on each side of the midrib 10-12, curved-ascending, at least some, 
usually about 5, of the basal veins connected with the main submarginal 
vein by slight anastomoses only but contributing to form one or more 
inconspicuous veins lying without the main submarginal vein but not 
prolonged to the apex. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Santa Cruz, Williams 27 48 (type) : District of 
Zamboanga, San Ramon, Hallier s. n. ; Saccal Island, For. Bur. 6113 Hutchinson. 
Wood utilized as material in house-building on Basilan, where it is known as 
Tamhistamhis or Gulagan. 
30. Eugenia crassipes sp. nov. 
Jamhosa vulgaris Merr. in For. Bur. Bull. (Philip.) 1 (1903) 43, non DC. Prodr. 
3 (1828) 286. 
Eugenia javanica ? Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 105, non Lam. 
Encycl. 3 (1789) 200. 
Local name, Caluhcoh, Bataan. 
Inflorescentiis terminalibus, pedunculis pedicellisque crassis, congestis 
vel subcongestis, floribus admodum magnis, tetrameris : foliis ellipticis vel 
lanceolatis, basi obtusis, hand cordatis, rarius subacutis ; venis utrinque 
10 - 12 . 
Cymes terminal, the peduncles and pedicels stout, in all less than 2 
cm long to the base of the terminal flower, 5-flowered, the pedicels 4-8 
mm long : calyx-tube turbinate, in length 1 cm or slightly more to the 
base of the lobes and there 10-13 mm in diameter; calyx-lobes 4, 3-5 
mm long, 5-8 mm wide, broadly rounded ; petals 4, white, suborbicular, 
8 mm in diameter; disk well developed; stamens very numerous, the 
filaments about 1.5 cm and the narrow anthers about 1.5 mm long; style 
3.5 cm long; ovary 2-celled. 
The type described as a small tree 3 m high with a trunk 3 cm in 
diameter, the branchlets terete or flattened toward the apex covered with 
gray or yellowish-gray bark : leaves with petioles 2-3 mm long, the lamina 
chartaceous, elliptic or lanceolate, 16 to at least 20 cm long, 6-9 cm wide, 
the base not cordate, obtuse or subacute; primary lateral veins on each 
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