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face castaneous, shining, the lower paler, obscurely glandular- 
punctate; lateral nerves 20 to 25 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, anastomosing with the equally distinct marginal 
nerves about 5 mm from the edge of the leaf, the reticulations 
not prominent; petiole very stout, 4 mm long or less. Flowers 
fascicled at the nodes below the branches, the calyx-tube 
broadly funnel-shaped, wrinkled when dry, about 6 mm long, 
the throat about 7 mm wide, shallowly 4-lobed, the lobes spread- 
ing, 2 mm long or less. Fruits rather large, ovoid, fleshy, 
when dry grayish and about 2.5 cm in diameter, crowned by 
the persistent calyx-tube and lobes. 
Leyte, Tacloban, Wenzel 1U8U, April 5, 1915, in forests, prob- 
ably at low or medium altitudes near Tigbao. 
This characteristic species does not appear to be closely allied 
to any previously described form. It is readily distinguishable 
by its vegetative characters; its 4-angled branchlets; and its 
shortly pedicelled flowers being fascicled at the nodes below the 
leaves. 
EUGENIA SESSILILIMBA sp. mw. § Jambosa. 
Arbor parva, glabra, ramis teretibus, ramulis acute 4-an- 
gulatis, internodiis sursum incrassatis, 3 ad 5 mm diametro; 
foliis sessilibus vel brevissime petiolatis, crassissime, coriaceis, 
oblongis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, basi late rotundatis, cordatis, apice 
acutis vel acuminatis; nervis utrinque 18 ad 20, patulis, per- 
spicuis; floribus terminalibus, solitariis, tenuiter pedicellatis, 5 
cm diametro. 
A glabrous tree, about 6 m high, the older branches terete, 
the younger ones and the branchlets very sharply 4-angled, the 
ultimate internodes thickened upward and 3 to 5 mm in diame- 
ter. Leaves sessile or subsessile, opposite, very thickly coria- 
ceous, oblong, 8 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, base broadly 
rounded and distinctly cordate, narrowed upward to the acute or 
somewhat acuminate apex, the margins often prominently revo- 
lute; midrib somewhat impressed on the upper surface, very 
stout and prominent on the lower surface; lateral nerves spead- 
ing at right angles, 18 to 20 on each side of the midrib, promi- 
nent, straight, anastomosing with the equally prominent mar- 
ginal nerve about 3 mm from the edge of the leaf. Flowers 
terminal, solitary, white, about 5 cm in diameter, the calyx-tube 
obconic, about 1 cm long; lobes broadly ovate, rounded, about 7 
mm long and wide; pedicels slender, jointed, with the base of 
the calyx-tube about 2.5 cm long. 
