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Eugenia.'} Lix. myrtace^. (J. F. Duthie.) 493 



Maxacca, Mawgay, 753-2. 



Brancklets terete, polished. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1^ in., chocolate-coloured andsliining 

 above, rusty-red beneath when dry; petiole ^ in. Calyx-lobes distant. Style long, 

 persistent. — Allied to E, oblata, but with smoother branchlets and narrower more 

 contracted inflorescence. 



79. E. sylvestris, Moon in Wight III ii. 15 ; Ic. t 532; leaves glabrous 

 from lanceolate with an obtuse point to obovate or spathulate obtuse coiiaceous, 

 cymes corymbose crowded ternamal or from the extreme axils on long peduncles, 

 flowers small, calyx /^ in., fruit spherical black-purple. Bedd. FL Sylv. Anal. 

 G^w. cvii. Syzygium sylvestre, Thwaites Enum, 116. Oalyptranthes Jambo- 

 lana, Moon Cat p. 39. 



Ceyxon; common up to an elevation of 3000 ft., Walker, Thwaites. 

 ' A very large tree ; branchlets terete. Leaves about 4 by 1^-2^ in., shining above, 

 rusty-coloured beneath, and minutely and densely punctate, closely nerved, the 

 lateral nerves horizontal and uniting close within the margin, margins somewhat 

 revolute ; petiole |-| in. — In Wight's figure the leaves are drawn too acute. 



80. E. assimilis, Thiuaites Enum, IIQ - {Syzyyimn) \ leaves petioled 

 ovate-lanceolate or obovate more or less abruptly acuminate narrow at the base 

 rarely rounded, cymes crowded at the ends of the branchlets half as long as 

 tlie leaves, hemes spherical. Bedd. FL Sylv. Anal. Gen. cvii. 



Ceylon ; up to alt. 5000 ft., Thwaites. 



A moderate-sized tree. Leaves 2-5 by 1^-2 in. ; petiole ^-nearly \ in. Peduncles 

 oi'tusely 4-sided. Flowers rather large, about ^ in. in diam. Petals falling in one 

 ^*^^®: — -differs from E. Ariiottiana in the larger leaves and flowers, the united petals, 

 ^nd in the shape of the fruit; the nervation of the leaves is less close, and the 

 "^rginal nerve is more distant from the edge. — A variety of this ^-ith larger leaves 

 Hnd flowers is also found in Ceylon. 



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81. S. Neesiana, Wight III, ii. 15 ; Ic. t. 533 ; leaves nearly sessile 

 ong-lauceolate obtusely acuminate subcoriaceous pellucid-punctate, cymes 



pf^^^^ and from the upper axils laxly corymbose, berry subglobose. Bedd. 



^ I" Sylv. Anal. Gen. cvii. Syzygium Neesianum, Am. in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 



Xvui. 355 (183G) ; Thtmites Enum. 117. Calyptranthes cordifolia. Moon Cat. 



Ceylon ; up to 3000 ft. alt., Thwaites, Gardner. 

 , A good-sized tree. Branchlets terete. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1^ in. Pedicels half the 

 ^.iigth of the shortly turbinate calyx. Flowers small. Petals free or falling in one 

 ll^^' ^^'VJ % in., crowned with the circular calyx-throat and the incurved acute 



82. E. microcaljrx, Duthie \ leaves nearly sessile ovate or elliptic-ol>- 

 ^vate obtuse or shortly acuminate polished above nerves faintly impressed above 



T ^ycuctttu, cymes terminal ana axmary uiLt'ii e-vct-cuiug the leaves, 



^j^cts small acute persistent, flowei-s very small, calyx-tube short subcyliudrical 

 10^. or less lobes 4 distant subacute nearly equal, petals united. 



^-AccA, Griffith, Maingay, 727 & 731.— Di^^TRin. Borneo?. 



^^ranchlets subtorete. Leaves 2-4| by 1^-2^ in., dark above when dried, reddish 



"^^'ith ; lateral nerves uniting some way within the margin. Bracts often in threes. 



^/^ Maingay^s No. 727 the leaves are less distinctly nerved, the lateral nerves 



amtly unite close within the margin, and the flowers are rather smaller. No. 3354 



* -Deccari's Borneo may perhaps be referred to this species. Habit of £". oUvifolia. 



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