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EUGENIA MALACCENSIS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 470. 
Caryophyllus malaccensis W. F. Wight ex Safford in Contr. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 9 (1905) 217. 
Recorded by Safford, but it is suspected that the identification is erro- 
neous, and that the plants he referred to Eugenia ( Caryophyllus ) malac- 
censis are E. javanica. Mr. Safford cites the native name macupa for his 
plant. India to Malaya and Polynesia, in cultivation. 
EUGENIA THOMPSON 1 1 sp. nov. § Jambosa. 
Ut videtur arbor alta, glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus; 
foliis brevissime petiolatis, coriaceis, usque al 18 cm longis, ni- 
tidis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, basi late rotundatis 
cordatisque, sursum angustatis, apice acutis vel obtusis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 10 ; inflorescentiis paniculatis, fasciculatis, cauli- 
floris, 12 ad 20 cm longis; floribus plerumque in triadibus dis- 
positis, calycibus infundibuliformibus, 8 ad 10 mm longis. 
Apparently a tall tree, quite glabrous. Branches and branch- 
lets terete, reddish-brown or sometimes grayish-red, mostly 
smooth. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, oblong-ovate to oblong- 
lanceolate, 10 to 18 cm long, 3 to 6.5 cm wide, the base rather 
abruptly and broadly rounded, distinctly cordate, narrowed above 
to the acute or obtuse apex, the margins somewhat recurved, 
upper surface brownish-olivaceous, shining, the lower somewhat 
paler, dull or but slightly shining; lateral nerves about 10 on 
each side of the midrib, distant, anastomosing, the reticulations 
lax ; petioles stout, 3 mm long or less. Flowers in panicles which 
are fascicled on the trunk, the panicles 10 to 20 cm long, narrowly 
pyramidal, the lower branches 5 to 7 cm long, the upper shorter, 
all opposite, 3 or 4 pairs to each panicle, mostly spreading. 
Flowers for the most part in threes at the ends of the ultimate 
branchlets, their pedicels short, 1 to 3 mm long. Calyx funnel- 
shaped, 8 to 10 mm long, the lobes 4, very broad and short, 
not prominent. Petals 4, free, orbicular-reniform, rounded, 6 
to 7 mm in diameter, prominently glandular. Stamens indefi- 
nite; filaments 6 to 8 mm long; anthers 1 mm long. Fruit 
when dry about 1.5 cm long, 1 cm in diameter, truncate, black, 
base rounded, ovoid-ellipsoid. 
Guam Experiment Station i69, no data recorded. 
A striking species on account of its fascicled, rather ample, cauline 
panicles, and its very shortly petioled leaves which are broadly rounded 
and distinctly cordate at the base, and gradually narrowed upward to the 
acute or obtuse apex. 
EUGENIA DECIDUA sp. nov. § Eueugenia. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, glabra vel subglabra; foliis deciduis, 
ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, chartaceis, usque ad 4 cm longis, obtuse 
