



.P^ 





f ' 



' ^ 



J - 



.- 1. 



--: ^ 



-i^-^^ 



-f 



502 



1 



LIX. MTRTACE^. (J. F. Duthie.) 



[^Eugenia. 



i 114. S. calcadenBlS, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. 35, t. 162 ; Fl Sylv. Afwj. 

 Gen. ex 



f d suT)o'bovate 



the channelled midrib, peduncles axillary solitary ahout equal to the ptioles 2* 

 rarely 1-flowered, flowers showy white, ovary 2-celled with numerous ovules. -^ 



. ; youu"^ parts rusty-puhescent, leaves opposite or suhalternate elliptic; 

 X)vate obtuse very rugose on the upper surlace but glabrous in age except 



Calcad Hills in S. Tinnevblly, up to 2000 ft., Beddome. ^ _ .. ' ^ 



A small tree. Leaves 2^3 by 1-1| in., coriaceous, not dotted ; nerves inconspicuous 

 above slightly prominent beneath, the primary ones joining within the margin ; pe- 

 tiole \-^ in. Pedicels 1-1^ in., with a subulate bract at the base of each. Flowers, 

 \'\\ in. in diam., with 2 small linear bracts at the base. Calyx-lohes rounded. Petals 

 oblong ciliate ^-§ in. long. Disk suborbicular, densely woolly, covering the whole of 

 the top of the ovary at the apex of the calyx-tube. Stamens inserted all over tn& 

 disk. ■-. ■ ■ r. -: '^ 



, ^. 



t ^ 



r,s 



H - if 



tt Staminal disk not enlarged. 



A 



§ Floivers pediceUed. 





:^ 



^ - 



' t ■_ ' 



f- 



,-r- 



,lf>S 



f - 



115. B. bracteata, Boxb. Hort. Bmg. 37 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 490 ; young parts 

 and inflorescence rusty-pubescent, leaves shortly petioled ovate-oblong tapenug 

 or cuneate at the base obtxisely acuminate glabrous when old coriaceous shining 

 pellucid-dotted, peduncles axillary short 1-flowered solitary or 2-3 together or. 

 in fascicles with 2 small bracteoles under each flower, berry globose 1-2-seeaea., 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 264: W. ^ A. Prodr. i. 331 ; Wiffht HI. t. 13; Thwaites Emm.. 

 114 ; Blu7ne Mm. Bot. i. 87 (in part) ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. ex. Myrtus. 

 bracteata, Wttld. Sp. PL ii. 969. M. coromandeliana, Kon. MSS. M. rusa-. 

 fo]ia, mild. I. c. 970 ; DC. I. c. 241 ; Sjn-encf. I. c. 482. M. latifolia, Heimtn 

 Both. nov. sp. p. 232 (not of Aubl.). M. Heynei, Uprenff. I. c, 482 ; DC. l.c. i*!- 



i - ^ ~ 



SirHET and Plains of S. India, especially near the sea ; Madbas, G. Thovmn^ 

 Wight, Hunter; Anamailay Mts., up to 3000 ft. alt., Beddome; Ceyxon. Jattna^ 

 Gardner. ' ^ ■ ^ 



A' shrub or small tree. Leaves 1^-2 by about | in. Calyx-lohes broad, unemial. re- 

 flexed after flowering. Petals ovate-oblong, twice as long as the calyx-lobes, puhescen^ 

 at the back, margins ciliate. ^^ 



Var. Boxburghii; leaves broader, petioles longer, flowers larger. E. Koxbu^gml^ 

 DC. Pro((r. iii. 271 ; Wall. Cat. 3621 {in part) ; Hook. Journ. Bot. l 66, t. cxsn^r 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 441 {in part); Blume Mm. Bot. l 87 {in part), ^..^er 



. Beng, 92 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 490 excl. syn. Willd. ; W. # A. Prodr. i. ^^^* 

 Am. in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xviii. 336 (1836). E. Willdenowii, Wight IIL n. ^o, 

 Ic. t. 645 ; not of DC. ; Thwaites Enum, 114 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal Gm. ex. : i^oij 

 Wall. Cat. 3623. Myrtus littoralis, Roxb. in E. L C. Mas. t. 151. M. spicata, nain. 

 —Plains of S. India and in Ceylon. p i^q 



Rottlor's specimens in the Kew Herbarium, and those of Amott from l^J 

 named E. zeylanica have the leaves upwards of 4 J in. long. In Wight s tgure ^^ 

 peduncles are incorrectly represented as 2-flowered. , -t^r 



Var. fasciculata; leaves 2^-3 in., flowers fascicled more erect peduncles snw r 



E. fasciculata. Wall. Cat. 3622; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 87.-Silhbt, Walltch. 



ianica, Roxb. Hort 



116. 



Ztottleriana, W. & A. Prodr 



petal 



peduncles and calyx covered with rusty-silky toraentuni, i ^ 

 narrow lanceolate tapering at both ends obtuse glabrous on ^^^^ . ^^i^s^ 

 pt when young pellucid-dotted, peduncles axillary or somewhat lateral 

 ;her or sometimes solitary filiform scarcely one-fourth the lengtn oi 

 "• bracteoles 2 under the calyx, calyx-segments 4 triangulM ov^e odi r 

 i much longer than the calvx villous on the marein. WiaM 



100 ; Bedd. Fl. Svlv. Anal 



\ 1 _ 



A - F "^ 



\- 



-**- 





-^r 



■^- 



r 



J '-.' 



-b - 



/ . 



V ^ 



'?^ 



., * 



' X- 



■ ^^i.; 



- ^t^ 1-. 





i 



