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rotundatis, brevibus; corolla calyptrata; staminibus numerosis, brevibus ; 
ovario biloculari : foliis chartaceis, obovatls vel ellipticis, apice acuminatis, 
basi acivtis; venis utrinque 12-15. 
Inflorescences axillary or in the axils of fallen leaves, pyramidal-ovate, 
3-4 cm long, 3-6 cm wide at base, usually thrice trichotomous, the 
peduncle nearly 1 cm long or wanting, the rachis and its branches about 
2 mm in diameter, with orbicular-ovate bracts about 1.5 mm long at 
some or all of the articulations; individual flowers in threes, sessile, each 
subtended by two decussate pairs of bracteoles, 2.5 mm long, 3 m m wide, 
broadly rounded, or one of these wanting between closely appressed 
flowers; calyx-tube turbinate or broadly oblanceolate, extending about 
2.5 mm beyond the ovar} r , 4-5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide at the base of 
the lobes; calyx-lobes 4, submembranaceous, 2-2.5 mm wide, about 0.5 
nun long, rounded; petals falling calyptrately, the cap about 3 mm in 
diameter, 1 mm in vertical height ; staminal disk inconspicuous ; stamens 
numerous, their filaments 3-4 mm long, the lanceolate anthers about 0.4 
mm long; style 5 mm long; ovary 2-celled, with numerous small ovules. 
A tall tree with a stem 60 cm in diameter, the terete or nearly terete 
branches covered with gray bark; leaves with caniculate petioles 7-13 
mm long, the lamina chartaceous obovate or elliptic, 12-17 cm long, 
6.5-9 cm wide, acute at the base, contracted at the apex into a short 
obtuse acumen, the margins slightly revolute; primary lateral veins on 
each side of the midrib 12-15, forming a definite submarginal vein, or 
conspicuous on the lower surface, but less so than the midvein. 
Luzon, Mindoro, Baco River, McGregor 224- 
Very closely allied to the preceding, from which fuller collections may show 
it not to be distinct. Apparently differing by the size, shape, and texture of the 
leaves. 
blanco’s species of myrtaceje. 
Nearly all of these are referred to in the proper places in the text, but a brief 
summary may be advisable. In no case, is his description satisfactory, and some 
of his species may well be mixtures, and there is reason for supposing that others 
are twice described, apart from mere changes of name. 
1. Eugenia malaccensis Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 415; ed. 2 (1845) 290. 
This has generally been reduced to E. j umbos, and there is every reason to 
believe that the reduction is correct. 
2. Myrtus mananquil 1. c. 421. 
Eugenia mananquil ed. 2 290. 
E. lobas ed. 1 857. 
E. canliflora (cauli flora) ed. 2 291. 
The second and fourth names are his changes of the first and third. These 
seem to me to be the same, at least possibly. E. mananquil has been reduced to 
E. javanica, but he very carefully specifies that the fruit is rounded and not 
depressed-hemispheric, which should exclude E. javanica. The species here con- 
nected with his names is the commonest indigenous one, to which his statements 
nearly apply. 
