396 
ROBINSON. 
ovary 2-celled, with several ovules: fruit brown, clepressed-globose, 15 
mm long, 17-18 mm wide, crowned by the truncate neck-like free part 
of the calyx, 1-celled, rarely 2-celled. each cell containing a single seed 
1 cm in diameter. 
A tree attaining at least a height of 8 m and a trunk-diameter of 30 
cm, the bark scaly, yellowish, that of the terete or nearly terete ultimate 
branches gray or somewhat pinkish-gray : leaves with petioles 6-14 mm 
long, the lamina hardly more than chartaceous though by the eye alone 
it would be considered coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, 6.5-13 
cm long, 3-5.5 cm wide, the base acuminate and decurrent on the petiole, 
the apex contracted into an obtuse acumen 5-10 mm long, the upper 
surface of the lamina olivaceous and shining, the lower surface paler and 
duller; primary lateral veins on each side of the midrib 20-25, usually 
difficult to count accurately owing to intervening veins of nearly equal 
prominence and to irregular anastomoses, all of the veins thin and of 
nearly equal prominence on both surfaces, forming a definite vein about 
2 mm from the margin. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, San Vicente, Fot. Bur. 4290 Klemme: Province 
of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2862 (type), 3254 Ahern’s collector, Merrill 1821. 
Git i mat; as, Nagaba, For. Bur. 303 Gammill. Tinago, Ahern 1/29, 443. Mindanao, 
District Province of Surigao, Surigao, Ahern 516. 
A species apparently very closely related to Eugenia jamboloides Koord. & Val., 
differing most notably in the venation of the leaves. 
Local names, Bansalaguin, Eizal; Butadtad, Guimaras; Lagilagi, Dinagat and 
Surigao; Cauomay, Tinago. 
88. Eugenia mimica Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 212. 
Two rather dissimilar series are represented by the plants here considered to 
belong to this species. That agreeing with the nomenclatorial type has leaves 
usually more than four times as long as wide, 23-85 mm long, 7-22 mm wide, 
and their apex is comparatively broadly acuminate or merely obtuse; the other 
series has thinner, larger, comparatively wider leaves, 7-14 cm long, 2-6.5 cm 
wide. In spite of this great range in leaf-outline, which is from linear-oblan- 
ceolate to suborbicular, the transition from the one extreme to the other passes 
through such gradual stages that it seems obligatory to include them all within 
the limits of the one species. It is not unlikely that these forms represent ecologic 
types, the first inhabiting river margins, the latter growing on ridges, cliffs, or 
in open forest. 
Form 1. Leaves narrow. E. mimica proper. 
Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, Cum ing 958 : Province of Bulacan, Angat, 
For. Bur. 1 / 144: 11158 Aguilar ; Norzagaray, Yoder 199, For. Bur. 7168 Curran: 
Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 3431 Ahern’s collector ; Montalban, Merrill 5034; 
Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 1438 Bamos. Mindoro, Iriron, For. Bur. 8849 Merritt. 
Form 2. Leaves wider. 
Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Linga River, For. Bur. 5781 Curran : Province of 
Zambales, Bagaac, For. Bur. 386 Maule: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Williams 
381: Province of Bulacan, Angat, For. Bur. 11256 Klemme: Province of Rizal, 
Antipolo, For. Bur. 410 Ahern's collector: Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 10331 
Curran: Province of Camarines, Pasaeao, Ahern 56, 77. Mindoro, Cuming 1498; 
