A PRELIMINARY REVISION OF PHILIPPINE MYRTACEzE. 381 
more arising from the same axil, paniculately branched, the branchlets 
terete or subterete, the individual flowers in triads, sessile, with a pair of 
deciduous ovate or lanceolate bracteoles at the base of each flower, and 
showing either similar ones or their scars at lower forks: buds 3.5 mm 
long, ellipsoid to obovoid, strongly apiculate, at first green, later becoming 
purple from the apex downward, the apical 1.5 mm falling calyptrately 
leaving a truncate margin; in anthesis the flower including the stamens 
7-8 mm long; the remaining portion of the calyx nearly campanulate, 
elongated to about 3 mm and 3 mm in diameter at the apex, extending 
1.5 mm beyond the ovary; petals 4, white, free but falling with the calyx; 
stamina! disk thin; stamens numerous, the filaments 2-3.5 mm long, the 
anthers 0.4 mm long, the apical gland not very conspicuous ; style 4 mm 
long; ovary 2-celled, many-seeded, the wall showing 'in section a definite 
ring of glands. 
A tree 15-20 m high, its trunk about 25 cm in diameter, covered with 
the branches by gray bark, the branchlets green, the nodes somewhat 
swollen; leaves with petioles 12-20 mm long, the lamina chartaceous, 
elliptic, oblong, elliptic-oblanceolate, oval or obovate-orbicular, 6.5-14.5 
cm long, 3-7.8 cm wide, the base acutely acuminate and decurrent, the 
apex narrowed into a short obtuse acumen ; primary lateral veins on each 
side of the midrib 12-20, slender, not crowded, easily distinguishable from 
the rather conspicuous reticulated secondary venation, their apices forming 
a distinct vein 2. 5-3. 5 mm from the margin, with a fainter external one; 
upper surface of the leaves dark-green, under surface paler, both shining, 
glandular-punctate. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Sur, Dolores, For. Bur. 1123 Klemme: Province of 
Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 6160 Robinson (type), Merrill 2806 ; Antipolo, For. Bur. 
410 Ahern’s collector. Negros, Province of Negros Occidental, Inanayan, For. 
Bur. 11191 Everett. Mindoro, Amnay River, For. Bur. 11448 Merritt. (See 
E. similis.) 
As shown by the remarkable nature of the calyx, this species closely approaches 
E. operculata Roxb., and especially var. densiflora Koord. & Yal., of neither which 
nor of the other varieties have I seen any material; As contrasted with the 
descriptions by Koorders & Valeton, Wight, and Duthie, it seems to differ by 
having much smaller inflorescences, smaller flowers, shorter stamens, and the 
leaf-venation appears to be different. 
Except by the young flowers it is almost impossible to distinguish this from 
E. similis Merr. ; but the latter has definite calyx-lobes, which often persist 
beyond the flowering stage, but are more often lost at that time. I know no 
character to differentiate sterile material of the two species. The name “mala- 
ruhat na puti,” applied to this at Bosoboso, is given to E. similis at Lamao. 
62. Eugenia glaucicalyx Merr. in Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 
(1906) 50. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Merrill 3949, For. Bur. 811, 826, 
1250, 2148 Borden, For. Bur. 6241, 1359 Curran. Culion, Halsey Harbor, 
Merrill 510, 626. Palawan, Dawara trail, For. Bur. 1438 Manalo. 
