492 Lix. MYETACEiE. (J. F. Duthie.) [Eugenia. 



coriaceous midrib keeled "beneatli lateral nerves indistinct, cymes terminal 

 corymbose branches stout angled compressed and flattened upwards, flowers 

 crowded; calyx-tube shortly obconic obscurely 5-lobed, petals calyptrate. 



Singapore, in Yei7 dense ^voods, Wallich; Government Hill, Penang, Maingay, 

 740. , _ 



A tree, about 15 ft. high (Mdngay). Branchlets terete-compressed. Learn 

 2i-4 by 1-1| in., smooth and polished above ; lateral nerves slender beneath, uniting 

 close to the margin, interspaces laxly reticulate. Flowers red and white (Maingay). 

 Calyx-tube about ^ in., squurrose. Bracts triangular. Fmit size of a small cherry. 



75. E. colorata, Duthie ; leaves very shortly petioled elliptic or oblon^- 

 obovate rounded or subcordate at the base rather acutely acuminate very thick 

 and c.Driaceous, cymes terminal, branches stout alternately compressed shorter 

 than the leaves, flowers crowded in compact corymbs, petals united, calyx abou 



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^ in. with 5 shallow lobes. 



Malacca, Ma big ay, 749. -i, i ri 



Branchlets terete, reddish-bro^vn. Leaves 4-6^ by 1^ to 2iin.; midrib angiea 



beneath, tinged with red; nerves indistinct above, slender beneath, uniting clos 



within the margin, interspaces reticulate. 



76. E. revoluta, Wight III ii. 17 ; Ic. t. 534 ; leaves lanceolate with a 

 small obtuse point to ovate or broadly oboTate and obtuse coriaceous ^|^^c^^^ 

 often revoluto, cymes terminal longish peduucled, flowers sessile congest^ a . 

 the ends of the branchlets, fruit spherical reddish size of a small cherry. i^^^«*- 

 FL^Sglv. Anal Gen. cvii. ; not of Berg. Syzygium revolutum, Thwaites J^num. 

 117. 



NiLGHiRi Mrs., Hh, Hohenacker. Ceylon, in the Central Provinces, alt. 3-6000 

 ft. (Adam's Peak J, Walker, Thwaites, &c. , ] tlv 



A moderate-sized tree ; branchlets terete or obscurely 4-gonous. Leaves ^^i^r ^^j^ 

 petioled, variable in size, polished above, dull and glaucous beneath. Calyx ^ ' ' - 

 toothed. Petals free, or cohering and faUing off as a lid.— The Nilghiri specimen^ - 

 have the leaves smoother above and more conspicuously dotted, the nervation is no 

 prominent beneath. There is a small-leaved form of this in Wight's Herbarm 

 collected in Ceylon by Col. Walker, and called var, ^yarvifolia ; the leaves are about 

 by i in. 



77. Z:. oblata, lioxL JIorL Beng, 37 ; FL Incl ii. 493 ; leaves ^^^9^^^^^ 

 broadly lanceolate acuminate finely nerved, panicles terminal and axillary s 



"S. pul 



alypt 

 size ot a cheiTy. Wight III ii. 15 ; Ic. t. 622 ; Kurz in Jc 

 vol. xlvi. pt. ii. p. G7; For. FL i. 488. S. oblatum, Wall .- , -n , \ xsi 



chellum, Wall Cat. 35G6 in part. Jaoibosa pulchella, Miq. Fl Ind- ^«J- ^' ^ ' 

 i. 422. E. comosa, Wall Cat. 35G6 D • Ic. 3G00 C (under E. viophylUt). 



Assam, Je7ikins\ Khasia Mts., Silhet, Chittaoong, Pegu, and MaktabAN 

 Tenasskbtm; Penaxg and Singapore, TF"a«^Wi.— Distrib. Yunan. j^^jg 



A tree; branchlets terete, reddish-brown. Leaves 3-4 in., ^ftf " ^l; , ' ^ tri- 

 slender point, shining above, turning dark when dried ; petiole i-| m. ^iP j^^^ 

 chotomous, on long peduncles. Flowers rather large, sessile. Calyx-ttibe ^^^ ^^^g, 

 gradually tapering to the base ; lobes 4 or 5, unequal, persistent. Stamens num 

 long; anthers with an apiculate connective. .,,, 



7ft. E- ii»v4^o»i4a T\..*T.:^, !««„«« ^^«^r._im-./»oAlpfA acuminate n 



close uniting very near the edge, cymes terminal and axillary short con 

 branches ascending, calyx-tube about J in. tm-binate lobes 5, fruit rouna 

 flattened at both ends size of a cherry. 



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