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EuGENIA JAMBOS. NARROW-LEAVED 
EuGENIA. 
WHE EH eR EE RE 
Clafs and Order. 
IcosaAnpDRIA MonocynlaA. 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Cal, 4-partitus, fuperus. Petala4. Bacca 1-locularis, 1- 
fperma. 
Specifie Character and Synonyms. 
EUGENIA Fambos ; foliis integerrimis lanceolatis, pedunculis 
fubquadrifloris terminalibus, Willd.-Sp. Pl. 2. p. 959. Hort. 
Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 186. 
EUGENIA ambos ; foliis integerrimis, pedunculis ramofis 
terminalibus. Sp. Pj. 672. Willd. 2. p. 959. Hort. Kew. 
ed. alt. 3. p. 186. Pl. Zeyl. 188. Lour. Fl. Cochin. 807. Mart. 
Mill. Dié. n. 2. 
JAMBOSA fylveftris alba. Rumpf Amb. 1. p. 127. t. 39. 
MALACCA-SCHAMBU. Hort. Malab. 1. p. 27. t. 17. 
PRUNUS malabarica fru€&u umbilicato pyriformi ambos difta 
minor. Raj. Hif. 1478. n. 1. 
In reading over the defcriptions of the authors above quoted, 
there appears to be confiderable contradiftion exifting in their 
accounts, which may be owing perhaps occafionally to the con- 
founding this {pecies with E. malaccenfis ; or there may be dif- 
ferent varieties or fpecies. Rumpr defcribes our plant as one 
of the wild forts of Jamsosa, diftinguifhing it from the do- 
meftic, or Evcenra malaccenfis of liecti by its {fmaller 
fize, crooked growth of the ftem, and auftere, round-comprefled 
fruit, which he fays is feldom eaten in Amboyna, being lefs 
juicy, more infipid, and leaving a bitterifh tafte on the palate. 
From the crooked growth, the wood is chiefly ufed for the 
ribs of fhips. , 
‘In the Hortus Malabaricus, the flowers are defcribed as at 
firft white and fcentlefs, afterwards turning yellow and ac- 
quiring an acid or vinous fmell; and the fruit is faid to be fweet 
and ul, witha very pleafant rofe-like fcent. By Lourziro 
the f are defcribed to be red, the fruit fweetifh acid, 
without fmell. 
Communicated by —— Barrett, Efq. of Ewel, at the 
latter-end of June. Flowers from February to July. Native of 
the Eaft-Indies, Requires to be kept conftantly in the bark ftove. 
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