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An entirely glabrous tree, 4 to 5 m high, the branches and 
branchlets terete, the latter about 2 mm in diameter, grayish 
or somewhat reddish-brown. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to 
oblong-ovate, sessile or very shortly petioled, 8 to 11 cm long, 3 
to 6.5 cm wide, acuminate, base rounded and conspicuously cor- 
date, the upper surface olivaceous, slightly shining, the nerves 
slightly impressed, the lower surface paler than the upper; 
lateral nerves 8 or 9 on each side of the midrib, very prominent, 
distant, spreading, curved-anastomosing with the equally prom- 
inent, slightly arched, marginal nerves about 5 mm from the edge 
of the leaf, the reticulations lax, distinct; petioles none or very 
stout and up to 4 mm in length. Flowers white, solitary, 4 to 
5 cm in diameter, terminal and lateral, erect, short-pedicelled. 
Calyx turbinate, about 1.7 cm in diameter, narrowed below, 
the pedicels jointed, 5 mm long or less, the lobes broadly reni- 
form. Petals reniform, about 12 mm wide, stamens very 
numerous. Fruits globose, urceolate, about 2.5 cm long, 2 cm 
in diameter, crowned by the persistent calyx rim and lobes. 
Panay, Antique Province, Culasi, Bur. Sci. 324-70 McGregor 
(type), and two specimens without number, May 24, 1918, in 
the mossy forest, altitude 1,000 meters. 
This species is manifestly allied to Eugenia speciosissima 
C. B. Rob., of northern Luzon, from which it is distinguished 
by its very shortly pedicelled white flowers and fewer lateral 
nerves. 
EUGENIA PEfiASlI sp. nov. § Jambosa. 
Arbor glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis subcoria- 
ceis, oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-obovatis, usque ad 10 cm 
longis, apice breviter obtuseque acuminatis, basi acuminatis, 
in siccitate olivaceis, supra perspicue nitidis, subtus paullo 
pallidioribus et distincte punctato-glandulosis, nervis primariis 
utrinque circiter 15, tenuibus, quam secondariis reticulisque vix 
magis distinctioribus ; inflorescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque, 
circiter 6 cm longis, racemoso-paniculatis ; floribus numerosis, 
confertis, plerumque in triadibus dispositis, sessilibus vel sub- 
sessilibus, calycis tubo circiter 12 mm longo, cylindrico, 6 mm 
diametro, deorsum angustato; petalis calyptratim connatis. 
A glabrous tree, about 18 m high, the branches and branchlets 
terete, brownish, the latter 3 to 4 mm in diameter. Leaves op- 
posite, subcoriaceous, prominently shining, oblong-elliptic to 
oblong-obovate, 6 to 10 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, the apex shortly 
and obtusely acuminate, base decurrent-acuminate, olivaceous 
