A PRELIMINARY REVISION OF PHILIPPINE MYRTACEMD. 373 
rounded; petals 4, suborbicular, 8 mm in diameter; staminal disk thick- 
ened; stamens very numerous, their filaments slender, 1-1.5 cm long, 
their anthers oblong, 0.7 mm long; style about 2.5 cm long; ovary 2-celled, 
its lumen very short, and only one-third of the total width of the ovary : 
fruit globose, 2 cm in diameter, crowned by the persistent erect or in- 
curved calyx-lobes and the base of the style, its surface marked by many 
obscure longitudinal lines. 
A tree of unknown size, the bark of the ultimate branches gray, or on 
innovations darker; leaves borne on petioles 5-11 mm long, the lamina 
coriaceous or subcoriaceous, when dry brown or olivaceous, oval, elliptic, 
or ovate, 5.5-12 cm long, 2. 7-6. 3 cm wide, gradually or abruptly acute 
.at the base, decurrent on the petiole, acuminate at the apex; primary 
lateral veins on each side of the midrib 9-11, irregular near the margins, 
forming a definite submarginal vein at least beyond the middle of the 
leaf, or through incomplete anastomosis two or three submarginal veins. 
Luzon, Province of Principe, Baler, Merrill 1069 his (type), 1088. 
Local names, Malaruhat, Malabayabas. 
48. Eugenia squamifera sp. nov. 
Cymis terminalibus vel lateralibus, 1-7-floris, floribus mediocriter 
pedicellatis, magnis, tetrameris : foliis lanceolatis vel oblongis, basi acutis, 
apice breviter obtuseque acuminatis ; venis utrinque 9-12 : nodis saepe 
squamiferis. 
Cymes terminal or lateral, 4-5 cm long, 1-7-flowered, the peduncles and 
pedicels terete, the latter 5-12 mm long, with a pair of small bracteoles 
at the articulation with the pseudostalk, and several purplish linear- 
lanceolate acute scales 3-5.5 mm long at the base of the peduncle or 
sometimes at the insertion of the pedicels or at the forks of the branchlets 
or in the axils of the leaves : calyx-tube turbinate, at the base narrowed 
into a pseudostalk 2 mm long, in all 1.5-2 cm long and about 1.5 cm in 
diameter at the base of the lobes; calyx-lobes 4, unequal, the larger 4-6 
mm long, 7-8 mm wide, the smaller 2-3 mm long, 6 mm wide; petals 
4, white, obovate-orbicular, 9 mm in diameter, acuminate at the apex or 
irregular in shape and smaller; staminal disk thick; stamens about 600, 
their filaments 14-21 mm long, their anthers 1.4 mm long; style 2.5 cm 
long; ovary thick-walled, 2-celled, with few ovules. 
A tree 4 m high, its trunk-diameter 10 cm, branches covered with gray 
or purplish-brown bark, that of the ultimate ones smooth and shining : 
leaves with stout purplish petioles 3-6 mm long, the lamina coriaceous, 
olivaceous on the upper surface, pale-green beneath, lanceolate to oblong 
or elliptic, 9-18 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, very shortly acuminate and de- 
current at the base, the apex shortly and obtusely acuminate; primary 
lateral veins on each side of the midrib 9-12, widely separated, in the 
middle of the leaf 2 cm apart or even more. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Mount Balingbuaya, For. Bur. 8243 Curran cC- 
Merritt. 
