476 Lix. MYRTACE^. (J. F. Duthie.) [Eugenia. 



roTinded at the apex narrowed or rounded at the hase, nerves prominent heneath 

 or on both surfaces, panicles terminal and axillary not exceeding the leaves, 

 flowers large, calyx-tube tuibinate attenuated below, petals free and expanding, 

 berry globose or somewhat pyriform crowned with the large spreading cup-like 

 calyx-limb. Bedd. FL Sylv. Anal Gen. cvii. ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 xlvi. (1877) pt. ii. p. 67; For. FL Brit. Burnt, i. 489. E. firma, Wall. Cat. 

 3603; not of DC. Jambosa grandis, Bluyne Mus. Bot. i. 108. J. firma, Blume 

 I.e. J. urceolata, Korth. in Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 418 in part. Syzygium 

 grande, Walp. Bepert. ii. 180; not of Wall. Cat. 3554. E. cymosa, Boxh. 

 Hart. Beng. 37 ; FL Ind. ii. 492 ; m>t of Lam. S. firmum, Thwaites Enum. 417. 

 S. montanum, Thwaites L c. 116. 



SiLHET, Wallich; Pegu, ]VIartaban, and Tenasseeim, Brandis; Movlmbin and 

 Meegtji, Griffith ; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay ; Sincapoke, Walker ; Ceylon, 

 Thwaites, ascending to 4000 ft. — Distrib. Borneo, &c. 



being impressed on the upper surface, and by the more unequal calyx-lobes. The 

 Ceylon specimens have the leaves very much polished, the lateral nerves more numer- 

 ous and uniting closer to the margin, the cymes more lax and fewer- flowered. A 

 plant from Amherst named E. ficifolia, MSS. in Herb. Wallich 3603 B, has the 

 leaves very large and more rounded at the base. . 



15. E. leBidocarpa. Wall. Cat. 3618 in narti leaves "broadly ovate or 



emptic-oblong abruptly acuminate or rounded at the apex shining above, nervec 

 prominent on both surfaces, interspaces finely reticulate, panicles terminal few- 

 flowered, flowers sessile, calyx \ in. campanulate spreading above, petals free and 

 spreading. Kurz in Jaum. As. Soc. Beng. xlvi. pt. ii, p. 08. E. grandis, v^^ 

 lepidocarpa. For. FL Brit. Burm. i. 490. Syzygium palembanicum, Miq^ Fl 

 Ind. Bat. SuppL i. 313. 



Distrib. Sumatra. 



Griffith, Maingay 



Branchkts greyish, more or less compressed at the nodes. Leaves thick, coria- 

 ceous, smaller than those of E. grandis ; midrib furrowed above, stout beneath ; petiole 

 about i in. Panicle branches angular, much compressed below the nodes. Calyx 

 pedicel-like below ; lobes rather unequal, rounded, with membranous edges. Berries 

 about ^ in., subglobose, crowned with the cup-like calyx-limb, often prominentiy 

 ribbed longitudinally. 



Var. miTwr ; leaves and flowers smaller, panicles axillary and terminal, A^^®^® 

 crowded in umbel-like heads.— The leaves resemble those ot E. ma7igifolia and tne 

 inflorescence has more the habit oiE. Wallichii.—MAi^YA, Griffith (2416). 



15*. E. Beddomei. Duthie 



attenuate below very coriaceous polished above, midrib and stout lateral nerves 



^ ^ uniting 



distance from it, inflorescence elongate, branches acutely 4-gonou9, petals free. 



TiNNKVELLY Hills ; alt. 5000 ft., Beddome. . . le 



A large tree. Leaves 4A by 3 in., rounded or emarginate at the apex ; pei^i 

 i in. or less, stout ; midrib channelled above. Flowers like those of E. grandis. 



16. E. tetraedra, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 310 (Jambosa ?) ; Jranch- 

 lets compressed acutely 4-gonou8 or the older ones subterete, leaves broamj 

 elliptic often folded very coriaceous shining above rusty coloured beuea^j 

 nerves prominent on both surfaces, cvmes terminal and axillary with divanca 



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