A PRELIMINARY REVISION OF PHILIPPINE MY RT ACE AS. 369 
extending about 7 mm beyond the ovary the basal 2 mm forming a 
pseudostalk; lobes 4, rounded, 4-6 mm long, 8 mm wide, the inner pair 
slightly longer than the outer; petals 4, suborbicular, 5-6 mm in diam- 
eter; disk evident; stamens numerous, the filaments still only about 5 
mm long, the anthers about 1 mm long; style 6 mm long, with several 
rather conspicuous longitudinal grooves as in E. jambos and E. merritti- 
ana; ovary close beneath the base of the style, 2-celled, with several ovules. 
A tree, its dimensions not stated, the trunk with pinkish-gray bark, 
the branchlets with grayish or brownish bark : leaves with rather stout 
petioles 5-10 mm long, the lamina coriaceous, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, 
oblanceolate, or oval, the base acute and decurrent, the apex forming an 
obtuse acumen about 1.5 cm long; primary lateral veins on each side of 
the midrib 15-20, with occasional well defined secondaries, forming a 
definite submarginal vein, the venation nowhere except the midrib very 
conspicuous. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Losod, For. Bur. 15873 Bacani. 
41. Eugenia jambos Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 470. 
E. malaccensis Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 416, saltern pro parte, non Linn. Sp. PI. 
(1753) 470. 
Jamlosa vulgaris DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 286. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 181('(5, 18510 Alvarez: Province of 
Rizal, Antipolo, Merrill 1673; Manila, Merrill J/105. Negros, Province of Occi- 
dental Negros, Gimagaan River, Whitford 161(5. Panay, Cuming 1648. Samar, 
Cuming 1903. 
Local names, Tampoi, Tampui, Tampui. 
Widely cultivated in the tropics. 
42. Eugenia merrittiana sp. nov. 
Floribus terminalibus, cymosis et eorymbosis, haud pedicellatis, purpur- 
eis, speciosis, tetrameris; calycis lobis inaequalibus, deciduis; disco stam- 
ineo incrassato; staminibus numerosis, filamentis compressis; ovario 2- 
loculari: foliis breviter petiolatis vel subsessilibus, oblongis vel ellipticis, 
basi acutis decurrentibusque, apice breviter acuminatis; nervis utrinque 
18-25, apicem versus inconspicuis. 
Flowers arranged in terminal corymbs or cymes 6-8 cm long, the 
terminal flower sometimes the oldest, sometimes the youngest, the rachis 
and its branches angled or terete, 1.5-2. 5 mm in diameter, its branches 
1-3-flowered with no proper pedicels or these 1 mm long, bractlets 
wanting: calyx-tube in all 12-22 mm long, the basal 4-11 mm differen- 
tiated into a pseudostalk, the upper portion campanulate, 8-9 mm in 
diameter at the base of the lobes; calyx-lobes 4, very unequal, 2-7 mm 
long, 4-7 mm wide, broadly rounded, deciduous; petals 4, 5.5-6 mm long, 
6.5-8 mm wide, purple, rounded, conspicuously glandular; staminal disk 
moderately thick; stamens about 150, the filaments flattened, about 0.4 
mm wide, 12-26 mm long, the anthers oblong, 0.6 mm long, 0.4 mm wide; 
style 1.5 cm long; ovary 2-celled with several ovules in each cell, ovarian 
walls rather thick. 
