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ROBINSON. 
beyond, the ovary, the upper portion often more or less reflexed in fruit; 
calyx-lobes 4, unequal, somewhat distant, the larger 6 mm long and 
6 mm wide, the smaller 1.5-2 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, all rounded; 
petals 4, white, orbicular- ovate, 7-8 mm long, 6-7 mm wide; staminal 
disk thick; stamens very numerous, their slender filaments 1.5-2. 5 cm 
long, their anthers 1.5 mm long; ovary 2-celled, with many ovules; style 
2-3.5 cm long. 
A small tree attaining 15 m in height, the bark of the ultimate branches 
gray : leaves with petioles 3-7 mm long, the lamina chartaeeous or sub- 
coriaceous, lanceolate, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 5-13 cm long, 2.5-5 cm 
wide, acute and slightly decurrent at the base, the apex prolonged into a 
short subacute acumen; lateral veins 8-12, always forming a definite 
submarginal vein, and on the broader leaves often a fainter outer one. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, near Lagonoy, For. Bur. 10651 Curran. Ne- 
gros, Province of Negros Occidental, Mount Silay, Whitford 11^96 Whitford & 
Everrett. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River, Williams 2110, 2189. 
Whitford 1612, from Gimagaan River, Negros, resembles this species in some 
respects, but flowers are pedicelled, their attachment unknown, and while it may 
possibly serve as a link with E. ocanthophylla, it is more probably distinct from 
both. 
46. Eugenia vidaliana Elmer Leafi. Philip. Bot. (1909) 584. 
Infiorescentiis terminalibus, fructibus subglobosis, unilocularibus, mon- 
ospermis, 2 cm diametro; calycis lobis 4, persistentibus, 2-6 mm longis, 
4^5 mm latis; disco evoluto; staminum maculis numerosis: foliis petiolis 
circiter 1 cm longis suffultis, laminis chartaceis, oblanceolatis vel ellipticis, 
7-13 cm longis, 23-45 mm latis, basi aeutis, apice breviter obtuse acumi- 
natis; venis utrinque 5-8. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 9161; Guinayangan, For. Bur. 
12806 Rosenbluth, the latter in flower. The flowers are white, fragrant, the calyx- 
tube is turbinate, or nearly funnel-form, petals 4, suborbicular, 7-8 mm in diame- 
ter; filaments 8-10 mm long; style little exceeding 1 cm: leaves slightly wider 
than in the type, the veins both on this and the cotype 10-12: the inflorescence is 
a terminal interrupted, leafy, tricliotoinous cyme, with the flowers solitary or in 
threes at the apices of its ultimate branches, on pedicels 0.5-2 mm long or rarely 
sessile. 
Local name, Macaasim. 
Endemic. 
47. Eugenia brunnea sp. nov. 
Floribus paniculatis, pedicellis 1.2-2 cm longis, calycis lobis tubum 
aequantibus vel superantibus, 4; petalis 4, separatim deciduis; staminibus 
numerosis ; ovario 2-loculari : foliis ellipticis ovatis vel ovalibus ; venis 
utrinque 9-11. 
Flowers forming terminal or lateral 3-7-flowered panicles 4-7 cm long, 
the rachis and its branches obscurely 4-angled or terete ; flowers borne on 
pedicels 1.2-2 cm long, with no pseudostalk or a very short one; tube of 
the calyx turbinate, 5 mm long, 7 mm in diameter at the base of the 
lobes; lobes 4, nearly equal, the larger 6 mm long and 8 mm wide, broadly 
