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equally narrowed to the acute base and to the obtuse apex, the 
margins slightly recurved, when dry pale, dull or very slightly 
shining, uniformly colored on both surfaces, the lower surface 
puncticulate with minute scattered glands ; petioles slender, 3 mm 
long or less; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, 
very slender, obscure, obscurely anastomosing, reticulations very 
lax, indistinct. Flowers axillary, solitary, their pedicels stout, 
about 2 mm in diameter. Calyx-tube broadly funnel-shaped, 
pubescent externally, short, the lobes 4, broadly ovate, rounded, 
chartaceous, 3 to 3.5 mm long, 3 mm wide, prominently gland- 
ular, margins, below, slightly pubescent. Stamens indefinite; 
filaments 2 to 3 mm long ; anthers 0.7 mm long. Petals not seen. 
H. L. W. Costenoble 1173 collected at Tumbun, August, 1906, locally 
known as agatelang, sheet No. 653738 U. S. National Herbarium. 
A species well characterized by its small, axillary, solitary, very shortly 
pedicelled flowers. It is dedicated to the Reverend Jose Palomo, for many 
years a resident of Guam, who supplied Mr. Safford with much information 
regarding the island, as well as some botanical material. 
EUGENIA COSTENOBLEI sp. nov. § Eueugenia. 
Arbor parva (vel frutex) partibus junioribus floribusque ex- 
ceptis glabra; ramis ramulisque tenuibus, teretibus, pallidis; 
foliis coriaceis, late ellipticis ad elongato-ellipticis, usque ad 9 cm 
longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice acu- 
minatis, in siccitate nitidis, supra pallide olivaceis, subtus palli- 
dioribus, haud vel obscurissime glandulosis, nervis utrinque 7 vel 
8, non prominentibus ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, longissime 
pedicellatis, pedicellis 2.5 ad 4.5 cm longis, apice 2-bracteolatis ; 
floribus sub anthesin circiter 2.5 vel 3 cm diametro, calycibus 
tubo utrinque tomentoso. 
A shrub or small tree, the young branchlets, young leaves 
and the flowers more or less pubescent. Branches and branch- 
lets slender, terete, pale, the latter sometimes slightly com- 
pressed, usually appressed-pubescent. Leaves elliptic to elon- 
gate-elliptic, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, the younger ones softly 
pubescent, the adult ones entirely glabrous, 6 to 9 cm long, 3 
to 4.5 cm wide, about equally narrowed at both ends, the base 
acute, the apex rather prominently but bluntly acuminate, the 
upper surface shining, pale-olivaceous, the lower much paler, 
dull, npt glandular; lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side of the 
midrib, not prominent, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, ob- 
scure; petioles 4 mm long or less. Flowers axillary, solitary, 
long-pedicelled, the pedicels usually somewhat pubescent, in age 
glabrous, each with a pair of lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent 
