Eugenia richardii (Blume) N. Snow, Callm. & Phillipson

Shrubs 2–4 m tall; ca. 4 cm dbh; bark of main bole rough, grayish-brown. Branchlets terete, lightish gray-brown (dried); internodes short, (0.5–)1.5–2.3 cm; epidermis smooth but becoming fissured and flaking on older internodes, indumentum moderately dense of minutely dibrachiate trichomes; oil glands common, and somewhat prominent, and protruding above surface. Leaves mostly evenly distributed along branchlets, coriaceous, slightly discolorous, surfaces matte. Axillary colleters absent. Petioles 1–2 mm, slightly sulcate but mostly flush adaxially, glabrous. Leaf blades 2.5–4.5 × 1.6–2.5 cm, elliptic; base rounded to somewhat cuneate; apex broadly obtuse to rounded; margins slightly revolute; adaxial surface glabrous, oil glands dense upon emergence but fading as blade thickens, midvein broadly but slightly sulcate proximally; abaxial surface resembling adaxial, secondary veins indistinct or not visible, intramarginal vein 1.0–1.5 mm from margin at midpoint of blade. Inflorescence a monad arising in terminal leaf axils. Anthopodia (short internode between base of hypanthium and subtending bracteoles) present, 1–2 mm. Pedicels 1.0–1.4 mm, firm but slightly bowed, glabrous. Bracteoles 2, 0.8–1.0 × ca. 1.0 mm, ovate, minutely hairy on margins near apex. Hypanthium 4–5 mm, cupuliform to obconic, glabrous but evidently exuding salt, oil glands common to dense; ovary apex densely short-hairy. Calyx lobes 4, ca. 4 × 4 mm (material limited), oblong, apex obtuse, glabrous, greenish. Petals 9–10 × 6–9 mm, widely elliptic to widely obovate, sparsely short-ciliate on margins, thin (nearly transluscent), pinkish, oil glands sparse to common but prominent. Stamens ca. 70–100, multiseriate; anthers ellipsoid, 0.6–0.8 mm, sub-basifixed, connective with a single apical gland. Filaments 3–9 mm, white; ovary apex densely short-hairy. Styles 9–10 mm, glabrous; stigma narrow. Berries unknown.

Known from the north-eastern coastal region of Madagascar in Antsiranana Province, from Orangéa to about 140 km along the coast near Vohemar (Fig. 2).