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472 wx. MYRTACEiE. (J. F, Duthie.) [Eugeniar 



Rumph. Herb. Amh. i. 121, t. 37 {not good) and 38, f. i. ; DC. I. c. 288 ; Blume 

 Mm. Bat. i. 91 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 411; Berg in FL Brazil xiv. 

 pt. i. 376 . Myrtus macrophylla, Spreng. ; Blume Bijdr. 1084. M. malaccensis, 

 ^eng ; Blume I. c. 1083.— Bur?n. Fl. Ind. 114 ; Bfieede Hart. Mai. i. 29, t. 18. 



Malaya, Maingay, Griffith. Chittagong (cult. ?) J. D. H. & T, T. Tenasserim.— 

 DiSTRiB. Malayan Islands. — Many varieties are cultivated in different parts of 

 the world. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft. high, with terete-compressed branchlets. Leaves 9-12 by 3^ in., 

 glossy on both surfaces ; dots inconspicuous ; nerves indistinct above, the priniary ones 

 few prominent beneath and uniting more or less distinctly within the margin, some- 

 times in double loopings ; petiole stout, channelled above, J-^ in. Flowers large 

 and handsome. Calyx-tube \ in. ; lobes unequal, rounded, with membranous edges, 

 the larger pair | in. long. Petals large, suborbicular, glandular. Stamens numerous, 

 about 1 in. in length. Style long, persistent, nearly equalling the stamens. Fruit 

 large and juicy, very generally eaten, but insipid (Roxburgh). — In a cultivated ^e- 

 cimen from Chittagong the leaves are distinctly pellucid-punctate with large glands. 



Var. purpurea ; fruit ovoid dark purple. E, purpurea, Roxb. Hort. Be7iy. 37 ; ^^• 

 Ind. ii. 483 ; Wight III. ii. U ; 7c. ii. 549. J. purpurea, Wall. Cat. 3610. J. 

 domestica, var. purpurea, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 92 ; Miq. I. c. — J. nigra, Rumph. Amo. 

 125, t. 38, fig. 1? 



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Wight lU. ii. 14; Ic. t, 610; leaves temate Ii 

 il 3-4-flowered. corolla manv-Detalled. W(tll 



lanceolate, peduncles lateral 3-4-flowered, corolla many-petalled. Wdl tau 

 3616 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 69 ; For. Fl Brtt 

 Bunn. i. 493. E. salicifolia, Bu^h. Cat 37. E. angustifolia, Roxh. Fl In<l* 

 490. 



SlUIET 



A small tree. Leaves 4-6 in. by nearly an inch in width, midrib and lateral nerves 

 prominent beneath, uniting close within the margin. Flowers smaller than those oi 

 E. diospyrifolia. Calyx-tube broad, and rather more than | in. long when in flower. 

 —Roxburgh says (1. c.) that this flowers in March and April, and the fruit ripens m 

 June and July; it is readily known by its many (12-16) petals and the ternate 

 leaves. Allied to Jamhosa (emula, Blume, and J. media, Korth, 



•* Flowers te7*jninal and axillary. 

 t Calyx-tube broadly turbinate, 



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§ Calyx ^ in, o?- more in length. 



5. E. diospyrifolia, Wall Cat. 3617 ; leaves long and narrow ovate- 

 lanceolate or oblong acutely acuminate cordate at the base and nearly sessue, 

 flowers terminal few, calyx-tube about | in. long produced beyond the ovary, 

 lobes very broad. 



SiLUET, Wallich; Khasta, Griffith. Air*^to 



Leaves 6-7 by l| in. pale coloured and with a yellowish tinge beneath.— AUieu 

 E. Munronii, but the lateral nerves of the leaf are much less prominent beneatn a 

 do not form by their union such a distinct intramarginal one; the flowers are tew 

 on shorter peduncles, and the calyx-tube is broader above and not so attenuate 

 below. 



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corxaceous, nerves prominent beneath .uniting in a thick waving xntramargii* 

 one, cymes terminal, flowers lar^e reddish or white, calvx-tube attenuaieu 





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