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possible agrees with the specimens here cited, and is noted by Merrill 11 as also 
agreeing with Bentham’s type from Tobie Island. For some reason, E. benthamii 
A. Gray is not listed in the Kew Index, but a species of that name is credited 
to Berg as in Linnaea 27 (1854) 164, and other species of that author in the 
same paper are uniformly so dated. No direct evidence is available here to 
determine the question, but the indirect evidence seems to indicate that Gray’s 
name has priority by at least 18 months. In Hooker’s Journal of Botany & Kew 
Garden Miscellany 6 (1854) 285-287, there is a review of Gray’s publication. A 
simple calculation shows that this was the September number. From the tone 
of the article, it is probable that the volume was reviewed promptly upon receipt; 
from the statements that “the plates are not yet published,” and “some of the 
unpublished plates are in our possession,” it is probable that no other delays than 
those of transit retarded its receipt: further, the reference to the death of Wallich 
in the June number, page 185, “The pages of our Journal were already printed, 
last month, when we received the melancholy tidings of the death [in London] 
* * * on the 28th of April” would indicate that the numbers were appearing 
promptly, whether this refers to the number for April or for May. This, more 
definitely than any other information we have yet received, would indicate that 
Gray’s volume appeared about July, 1854. On the other hand, a review of the 
various articles in Linnaea, in the Botanisclie Zeitung 15 (9 Ja 1857) 27, places 
volume 27 of that magazine, with Berg’s article specifically mentioned, in the 
year 1856. In the Botanische Zeitung 13 (7 D 1855) 869—871, a review of the 
26th volume of Linnaea appears, written like the other by von Sehleclitendal, 
editor of Linnaea and eoeditor of the Botanische Zetiung. In this, it is stated 
that the first part of volume 27 had already appeared, and that it would at once 
be followed by the others, the latter to contain Berg’s article on the Myrtaceae 
of South America, Brazil excepted. 
Local names, Anubing, Tayabas; Arahan, Macaasim, Malaruhat, Camarines, 
the last also in Mindoro. 
87. Eugenia grisea sp. nov. 
Jambosa lineata Merr. in For. Bur. Bull. (Philip.) 1 (1903) 43, pro parte, non 
aliorum. 
Inflorescentiis cymosis, terminalibus vel subterminalibus; floribus 
parvis, calycis tubo subturbinato, basi producto, apice brevissime lobato, 
corolla ealyptrata, staminibus numerosis; baccis depresso-globosis : foliis 
ellipticis vel elliptico-oblanceolatis, utrinque acuminatis, nitidis, sub- 
coriaceis; venis ntrinque 20-25, teneris. 
Inflorescences terminal or in the axils of the upper leaves, 4-7 cm 
long, usually trichotomously forked, the flowers mostly densely crowded 
at or near the apices of the branches, the terminal clusters 3-9-flowered, 
bracteoles very small or wanting: individual flowers in all about 5 mm 
long, the basal 1-2 mm of which forms a pseudostalk; calyx in all about 
4 mm long, about 2.5 mm in diameter at the apex, extending 1.5 mm 
beyond the ovary; calyx-lobes not attaining 0.5 mm, rounded, inconspic- 
uous; corolla calyptrate, about 2 mm in diameter at the base, with a 
vertical height of about 0.5 mm ; staminal disk present but small; stamens 
numerous, the filaments mostly 2-2.5 mm long, the anthers about 0.5 
mm long, comparatively large; style about 3 mm long; the thin-walled 
11 This Journal 3 (1908) Bot.. 83. 
