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Eugenia,} Lix. MYRTACEiE. (J. F. Duthie.) 471 



Sect. I. Jambosa. Infiorescence cymose. Ctdyx usually with a thick- 

 ened staminal disk and 4 conspicuous persistent lobes. Flowers showy, usually 

 4-merous. Berries large, turoinate or ovoid. Seeds large, with a thick fleshy 

 eDdocarp. (To p. 481). 



Flowers lateral y sessile or suhsessiley umialhj from lecffless axils. 



1. E. formosa, Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 6, t 108; Cat, 3609, in part-, 

 leaves large opposite or in threes nearly sessile elliptic-oblong obtusely acumi- 

 nate cordate or amplexicaul at the base, racemes lateral short few-flowered, 

 calyx-tube turbinate narrowed into a long pedicel, lobes unequal, fruit subglo- 

 bose pendulous crowned with the recurved calyx-limb. Kwz in J(mm. As, 

 ^' Beuff. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 68 ; For. FL Brit, Burin, i. 492 ; Wight III. ii. 14. 

 Jambosa formosa, Waip. Hep, Bot, ii. 191 ; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 92 ; Miq, FL 

 Ind. Bat, i. pt. i. 412. J. mappacea, Korth, in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. 200. 



Eastern Bengal and Eastern PENiNSTnc-A, Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim, 

 MoTilmein. Banks of Attra R, ^a/«cA. 



-^ lofty tree with wide-spreading branches. 5ar^soft, ash-coloured, marked with 

 tne scars of fallen leaves. Branchlets ^HqtroXqIj compressed or subtrigonous. Leaves 

 Oovded at the ends of the branchlets, 5- upwards of 16 by 4-4^ in., very coriaceous, 

 shining above, paler beneath; midrib stout; lateral nerves prominent beneath, 

 Jiiitmg within the margin. Flowers large, purple turning to red, scentless. Peduncles 

 fleshy, branches ckvate jointed near the middle; bracteoles 2, minute. Calyx'tube 

 J^^ch produced ; lobes spreading, orbicular. Petals twice as large as the calyx-lobes. 

 Bnortly clawed. StaTtmis many, very long. Ovary turbinate. Berry size of a walnut, 

 "Celled, smooth, shining, white, insipid. Seeds large, rugose, greenish. 



Var. temifolia, Boxb. Hart. Bcng. 37; Pl^ Ind. ii. 489 (sp.) ; leaves in threes. 

 ""««. Cat. 3607; Wight III ii. 14; Ic. t. 611; Blume Mus. BoL 92 {Jambosa). - 

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2. IS. amplexicaulls, Hoxh. Hort. Bern. 37; FL Ind. ii. 483; leaves 



of a smaU apple. Wiffht lU. u. 14 ; Ic. t. 0U8 ; 

 /{ ""• ^'«^- 3612 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1033 ; Kurz in Jmim. As. Soc. Beng. xlvi. 

 hri\ ^*" "• P- ^^ 5 ^'"■- ^^^- ^rit. Burm. i. 493. Jambosa amplexicaulis, 

 %r ^>'<^- iii. 287. J. alba, var. amplexicaulis, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 414 ; 

 ■o'wme Mu8. Bot. i. 06.— J. sylvestris alba, Humph. Herb. Amh. i. 127, t. 39 ? 



Chittaqonq, Roxburgh. 

 .A stately tree. Trunk tolerably straight, quickly dividing into numerous spread- 

 eafh^— ■^"'■^ °^ woody parts brown. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in. Peduiicles tnfid, 



«n division 3-flowered. Flowers large, white, scentless. Berry greenish-yellow 

 Jf°"Pe-— Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 1. c. refers to specimens in Herb. Brandis 

 fin^^T) '^ Upper Tenasserim as coming very near to this species, and only differing 

 Bum y ^^"""Sli's figure by having a terminal inflorescence. In the figure given by 

 pnius 1. c. the leaves are acute at the base. 



IftTD-^" ^' ^^-laccensls, Linn. ; Lam. Diet. iii. 196 ; leaves shortly petioled 

 latfl?^^*^ or elliptic-oblong attenuated at each end coriaceous glossy, racemes 

 lo£ ^"^ shortly peduncled, flowers red, calyx-tube turbinate narrow below, 

 c,,!:%'^°®'l"al, fruit subgloboae or depressed-turbinate crowned with the in- 

 t?« Sfly^-lobes. Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 483 ; Wall. Cat. 3611 ; Wight III. ii. 14, 

 fi 1? fto '^^ ^^- ^yl^- ^««^- Gen. ex. ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. xlvi. pt. 

 inJ' • ' ^^- Fl- Brit. Burm. i. 493. E. macrophylla, Lam. I. c. Jambosa 

 ^ccensis, DC. • Korth. in Ned. Kruidh. (1847) 200 ; Bot. Mag. 4408 ; W. 8^ 

 ifrodr.i, 332. J. purpurascens, DC. I.e. excl. syn. Roxh. J. domestica, 



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