298 55. mybtace^; : myete^e. 



Kwangtung {Millett ! Livingstone !) ; Hongkong {Champion !). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



"Widely spread in India and Malaya. 



13. Eugenia sinensis, Hemsl. 



Syzygium buxifolium, Hook, et Am. Hot. Beech. Voy. p. 187 ; Walp. 

 Ann. ii. p. 180; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 118. 



Syllysium buxifolium, Meyen et Schauer in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. 

 Suppl. i. p. 334. 



Eugenia Grijsii, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1871, p. 5, et l879, p. 10. 



Eugenia pyxophylla, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1871, p. 6. 



Eugenia microphylla, Abel, Narr. Journ. in China, pp. 181 et 364 ; F. 

 B. Forbes in Journ. Hot. 1884, p. 124 ? 



Eugenia, sp., S. Moore in Journ. Hot. 1875, p. 227- 



South China : without locality {Beechey ! Seemann !) ; 

 Kiangsi : Kiukiang {Shearer !) ; Fokien : Amoy {Fortune, 93 !), 

 Pagoda Island, south of Eoochow {Carles I)', Hupeh : Ichang 

 {A. Henry !) ; Kwangtung : Swatow {Perry !) ; Hongkong 

 {Championl Wright\ Urquhartl WiJfordl). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. 

 Kew. 



This species, as understood by Hooker and Arnott, is an 

 exceedingly variable one, but it is possible that we have referred 

 some forms here that should rank as independent species, though 

 we have failed to find characteristics by which to distinguish 

 them. Some of the original specimens of Syzygium buxifolium 

 have the flowers in terminal cymes, while in others they are 

 solitary and axillary and much smaller. The leaves also are very 

 variable in size and shape ; and they are opposite and ternately 

 verticillate on the same branch. We have not succeeded in 

 finding the original of Abel's Eugenia microphylla. 



14. Eugenia tephrodes, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1885, p. 7. 

 Hainan: near Kachik {B. C. Henry, hb. Hance, 22250!). 



Mus. Brit. 



There are Chinese specimens of two species of Eugenia, col- 

 lected by Macartney, in the British Museum, which we have not 

 identified. 



56. MELASTOMACE^. 

 1. Osbeckia chinensis, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 345 ; DC. Prodr. 

 hi. p. 141; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 228; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 

 p. 115 ; Clarke in Hooh.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 515; Franchet, 

 PI. David, p. 132 ; Bot. Beg. t. 542 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4026. 



