Eugenia andapae N. Snow

Shrubs or trees 4–12 m tall; bark of main bole unknown. Vegetative and reproductive parts mostly glabrous except as noted. Branchlets laterally compressed, the terminal internode sometimes with a distal sulcus but becoming rounded, smooth, minutely and sparsely short-sericeous but soon glabrous, oil glands faint and moderately common but soon fading; emerging (youngest) internodes sometimes bearing 1–2 pairs of opposite to broadly ovate bracts 1.5–4.0 mm long. Leaves opposite, thinly coriaceous (dried material cracking with only moderate pressure), discolorous, matte above and below, venation brochidodromous. Axillary colleters absent. Petioles 3–4 mm long, slightly striate below, flattened above, epunctate. Leaf blades (15–)18.5–25 × (7–)13.5–14 cm, broadly elliptic to broadly obovate, base cordate and somewhat clasping (or rounded), surface and margin flat, apex obtuse to broadly acute, tip acuminate (or rarely retuse), secondary veins more or less straight, 11–15 per side protruding prominently below and arising at 25–55° angles and connected by slightly arching (but also prominent) inner marginal veins, tertiary veins relatively well-spaced but projecting only slightly (dried material); adaxial surface glabrous, oil glands faint (use magnification), sparse to common, more or less flush and darkish (dried), midvein sulcate; abaxial surface glabrous, midvein projecting prominently throughout and punctate (especially proximally) or epunctate, secondary veins projecting prominently, straight or only curving slightly towards margin, the secondaries connected at their ends by moderately arching connecting veins, tertiary veins projecting but less so than secondaries, intramarginal vein of same thickness as tertiaries, 1.5–5 mm from margin at midpoint of blade. Inflorescence (material scant) a monad; flowers cauliflorous, arising from short brachyblasts (< 3 mm long) above nodes on naked branches. Pedicels 8–32 mm long (possibly elongating after fertilization), 0.7–2.0 mm wide, somewhat compressed laterally, longitudinally striate, somewhat flexuous (bending with light touch), habit unknown, moderately glandular (glands faint), anthopodium and metaxyphylls absent. Bracteoles narrowly to broadly ovate, 1.5–2.5 × 0.5–1 mm, minutely and sparsely hairy dorsally and apically (hairs clear or whitish with some reddish). Hypanthium campanulate, 3.0–3.3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide at base of calyx lobes, densely but very shortly sericeous in proximal half (hairs reddish-brown) but glabrous distally; ovary apex glabrous. Calyx lobes 4 and often tearing irregularly towards hypanthium, up to 3.5 mm long × 4.5 mm broad (at base), irregularly hemispherical, glabrous on both faces apart from occasional minute hairs, evidently reflexed irregularly in anthesis. Petals 4 (material scant), 5.5–19.0 × ca. 10 mm, narrowly to broadly obovate, glabrous, epunctate, rose to violet. Staminal ring 3.5–4.0 mm in diameter (rounded or somewhat squarish), sparsely short hairy (hairs whitish). Stamens ca. 140 (estimated from scars on ring), multiseriate; filaments up to 10 mm long; anthers globular, ca. 0.8 mm long. Fruit 23–35 × 21–50 mm, depressed globular to globose, glabrous, base and apex rounded or apex crowned by calyx lobes, pinkish-reddish.

Known in northeast Madagascar in and around the Anjarahabe-Sud and Marojejy protected areas (Figure 7).