478 - I'lX- MYRTACE^. (J. F. Dathie.) [Eugenia. 



fragrant. Fruit size of small apple, not eaten. — Col. Beddonie believes it to be closely 

 allied to E. hemispherica, I have not seen specimens. 



ttt Ccdyx-tvbe slender j conical or clavate, 

 § Flowers on long slender pedicels. 



21. B. bifaria. Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 47, t. 161, not of Wall 



3606; leaves very shortly petioled crowded oblong acuminate rounded at the 

 "base shining and convex above, lateral nerves uniting at some distance from the 

 margin in two conspicuous ones, corymbs axillary solitary branched few- 

 flowered, calyx-tube clavate narrowed into a slender pedicel^ lobes 4 roundish 

 imequal, berry oval about 1 in. long crowned with the incurved calyx-lobes. 

 Wight HI ii. 14 ; Ic. t. 609. E. kurifolia, Roxh. Sort Bmg. 92 ; Fl Ind. u. 

 489 ; Wall Cat. 3605. Jambosa bifaria^ Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 422. J. 

 laurifolia, DC. Prodr. iu. 287. 



SiLHET Mrs., Wallich. 



A tree, quite glabrous ; branches terete or alternately compressed, or the ultimate 

 ones obscurely 4-gonous, swollen at the nodes, ashy-coloured. Leaves about 5 in.» 

 twice or three times longer than the internodes; nerves prominent beneath nearij 

 transverse; petiole terete, \ in. Corymbs rather lax, two or three times shorter 

 than the leaves, shortly peduncled. Flowers large, white, on slender pedicels. P^^w 

 orbicular, shortly clawed, twice as large as the cal3rx-lobes, minutely crenulate. »^a- 

 Tnens numerous, long, spreading. Berry pendulous, 1^ in. long, yellow. — In some 

 of Wallich's specimens named E. laurifolia the corymbs appear to be terminal. 



22. E. filiformls, Wall. MSS.; leaves petioled rather small nearly 

 ovate with a broad obtuse acumen coriaceous pellucidly dotted, cymes laxly 

 racemose terminal or lateral, flowers solitary on long slender pedicels, ^^vT" 

 tube turbinate or subcylindrical, lobes nearly equal, berries ovoid or roundisn 

 crowned with the 4 renexed calyx-lobes 2--seeded. Syzygium filiforme, Wall* 

 Cat. 3580. S. canillare. Wall. Cat. 3578. 



Griffith 



Berries 



cylindrical calyx-tube. Wallich's E. {Sys.) capillaris seems to be only a state 

 JUiformis with thinner narrower leaves, shorter pedicels, and smaller flowers. 



Kurzii. Duthie 



.68; 



Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Bnrm. i. 491 ; leaves more or less broadly lanceoiaw^ 

 acute or attenuate at the base obtusely acuminate coriaceous pale henes, ; 

 flowers rather small white peduncled arranged in short axillary racemes or 

 the axils of fallen leaves, calyx-tube clavate-turbinate spreading above, ^^^^^ 

 rounded persistent, petals free, berry globose size of pea. E. cerasiflora, A^ 



Leaves 



Joum. As. Soc. Beng, xlii. (1873) 233 ; not of Miguel 



SiKKiM, alt, 1-5000 ft., J. D. H. ; Assam, Jen. 

 Griffith ; Cachar, Keenan ; Pegu and Mabtaban, .^^^^ 



A large tree 90-100 ft. Branchlets white, compressed or subtetragonous. f^^^ . 

 4-7 in., shining a little on the upper surface; lateral nerves slonder but P^^J"^".joii' 

 petiole 1-^ in. Cymes about 5-flowered. Calyx-tube ^-J in., the prodnced por 

 t in. ; lobes ^ in., reflexed after flowering. Petals ^ in. Filaments slender, ^y ^ 

 persistent. Berry i-a in., l-2.seeded. smooth, crowned with the spreading ca j 



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