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ROBINSON. 
5 cm long, the rachis and its branches purplish, subterete, bearing very 
short wide braeteoles at its forks, pedicels 2.5-4 mm long: calyx-tube 
6-8 mm long, 2.5 mm wide at the base of the lobes, thence uniformly 
narrowed to its base; calyx-lobes 4, unequal, the larger 3.5 mm long, 5.5 
mm wide, the smaller 3 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, rounded or barely and 
very obtusely acuminate at the apex; petals 4, white, 8 mm long, 6 ram 
wide; staminal disk thick; stamens about 100, the filaments 14-20 mm 
long, anthers 0.8 mm long; ovary 2-eelled, the lumen forming slightly 
more than half the diameter of the ovary, each cell containing many 
ovules : fruit including the persistent Calyx-lobes nearly 3 cm long, ovoid, 
thin-walled, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
A tree, 12-15 m high, its trunk 12.5-20 cm in diameter, the branches 
covered with reddish or blackish bark, which cracks when dry, that of the 
ultimate branches grayish or brownish, together with the petioles and the 
inflorescence more or less densely covered with brown or purplish glandular 
hairs: leaves with petioles 6-9 mm long, the lamina subcoriaceous, upper 
surface shining, olivaceous, under surface reddish or brown and dull, 
oblong, narrowly oblong, or elliptic, 7-13 cm long, 2. 5-6. 5 cm wide, acute 
or very shortly acuminate and decurrent at the base, the apex usually 
prolonged into a subacute acumen about 1 cm long ; primary lateral veins 
on each side of the midrib 9-12, submarginal vein indefinite. 
Mindanao. District of Zamboanga, Sax River, Williams 2128. Basilan, Bi- 
nuagan, For. Bur. 6119 Hutchinson. 
Closely allied to E. cinnamomea Vidal, differing not only by its acute leaf-tips, 
but by the smaller flowers, and less distinct venation. 
Local name, Malatambis, Basilan. 
37. Eugenia longiflora F.-Vill. Noviss. App. (1880) 86. 
Syzygium longiflorum Presl Bot. Bemerk. (1844) 70. 
Eugenia marivelesensis Merr. in Philip. Jour. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 106. 
Jambosa lineata Merr. in For. Bur. Bull. (Philip.) 1 (1903) 43, pro parte, non 
DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 287. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Cuming 1296 : Province of Principe, Baler, Merrill 
1069: Province of Isabela, Cauayan, Bur. Sci. 7978 Ramos: Province of Rizal, 
San Mateo, For. Bur. 1133 Ahern’s collector; Tanay, Merrill 231/2: Province of 
Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Lamao River, For. Bur. 618, 1522, 2922 Borden, For. 
Bur. 2597 Meyer: Province of Tayabas, Piapi, For. Bur. 10129 Curran; Lucban, 
Elmer 821/1, 9089; Gumaca, For. Bur. 6073 Kobbe. Palawan, Dawara trail. For. 
Bur. 71/31 Manalo ; Iwahig River, Merrill 757 neither quite typical. Mindanao, 
Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens 912: District of Zamboanga, Tetuan, 
Ahern 593. Negkos, Mount Silay, For. Bur. 7266 Everett. 
The identification of Presl’s and Merrill’s species is made by description, added 
to the fact that the type of the former was collected by Cuming. In all floral 
characters it belongs to Jambosa, but the leaf -venation is close, as is more usual 
in Syzygium. Cuming 1296 is listed by Vidal as a Syzygium , and the descrip- 
tion agrees exactly with that number and with no other species of Eugenia 
collected by Cuming. 
This species is almost identical vegetatively with E. lineata (Blume) Duthie, 
