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ROBINSON. 
2.5-4 mm wide at the apex, extending 2.5-3 mm beyond the ovary, the 
4 rounded lobes inconspicuous, unequal, all less than 0.5 mm long, a con- 
spicuous rib running from the apex of each lobe downward to the base of 
the flower and often continued upward upon the corolla; corolla white, 
calyptrate, about 1 mm in vertical height; staminal disk usually very 
thin; stamens numerous, the filaments 4-6 mm long, the anthers 0.3 mm 
long; styles 2-3.5 mm long, acicular, hidden by the stamens and rarely 
reaching the level of the margin of the calyx;, ovary 2-celled, with 
numerous small ovules; fruit brown, ellipsoid, the largest about 2 cm 
long and 1 cm in diameter, round in transverse section but conspicuously 
4- angled, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
A tree 8-22 m high, its trunk 24—75 cm in diameter, the terete 
branchlets covered with grayish or cinnamon-gray bark : leaves with 
petioles 3-6 mm long, the chartaceous lamina elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 
5- 14.5 cm long, 2. 8-5. 5 cm wide, the base acute and decurrent, the apex 
contracted into an obtuse acumen ranging in length from 5 to 30 mm 
both surfaces brown but the under the paler; primary lateral veins on 
each side of the midrib 8-12, quite distinct but not prominent, sometimes 
rather more numerous by the development of other veins; the main 
submarginal vein usually originating from the third lowest of the lateral 
veins and in the middle of the leaf about 2.5-5 mm from the margin, the 
second lowest lateral vein originating a less distinct vein nearer the 
margin, the lowest very faint; secondary veins frequent and frequently 
anastomosing. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Antipolo, For. Bur. J/12 Ahern’s collector (type) ; 
Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2150 Ahern’s collector: Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, 
Lamao River, For. Bur. 811/, 1188 Borden, Whitford 344 : Province of Tayabas, 
Atimonan, Whitford 673. Only the first of these numbers bears flowers, the 
others with one exception are in fruit, but match well. Other very similar fruit- 
ing material for the same localities has no ribs upon the fruit. Further, the 
leaves of this species are an excellent match for those of the type of E. cin- 
namomea, but the flowers are very different. 
86. Eugenia benthamii A. Gray Bot. Wilkes IT. S. Expl. Exped. (1854) 520, 
non E. benthamii Berg in Linnaea 27 (1856) 164. 
Syzygium nitidum Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2 (1843) 221, nec Eugenia 
nitida Veil. FI. Flum. (1790) 208, nec Benth., nec Cambess., nec Duthie. 
Luzon, Province of Bulacan, Angat, For. Bur. 7440 Curran: Province of Rizal, 
Antipolo, For. Bur. 433 Ahern’s collector: Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, 
For. Bur. 2803 Meyer: Province of Tayabas, Pagbilao, Merrill 1981: Province of 
Camarines, Libmanan, For. Bur. 895 VanWickle; Pasacao, For. Bur. 703 Van- 
Wickle, For. Bur. 15792 Rosenhluth. Mindoro, Abonabon, Merrill 2185; Pola, 
Merrill 2237. Mangsi Islands, Wilkes Expl. Exped. s. n. Two collections, in 
fruit, undoubtedly cospecific with one another (Elmer 6130, Sablan, Benguet, 
and For. Bur. 4%3 Ahern’s collector, Antipolo, Rizal), may possibly belong here, 
but have a much more definite submarginal vein. 
A note on the nomenclature is necessary. E. benthamii was based by Gray 
on Bentham’s species, with the citation of the Philippine specimen, and other 
notes. A fragment of the Mangsi specimen is in this herbarium, and so far as 
