484 ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eugenia. 
long, and from three to four broad. | Peduncles lateral, 
short, three-flowered, trifid ; each division three-flowered. 
Flowers large, white, inodorous. Calyx four-parted; 
the opposite segments unequal. Petals four, nearly 
round. Stamina numerous, &c. as in the genus. Germ 
turbinate, two-celled, with several ovula attached to the 
thickened middle of the partition. Style about as long as 
the stamina. Stigmaacute. Berry round, the size ofa’ 
_ small apple, greenish yellow when ripe. Pulp of a soft, 
rather spongy texture, and sweet insipid taste, rarely 
more than one-celled, containing one or two large, 
oval, more or less compressed seeds, covered witha soft’ 
_ white integument, the abortive cell, and its contents are~ 
very evident in the ripe fruit of this species. Perisperm 
none. _ Embryo conform to the seed. | Cotyledons of a 
thick, firm, fleshy texture, and nearly equal. Ca 
generally near the middle of the cotyledons. i 
The cultivation of this species cannot well be recom 
mended, on account of its fruit ; but the tree is one of -_ 
most handsome of the genus. peach 
4, E. Jambolana. Lamarck. Encycl. 3. 150. . 
Leaves oblong, entire, sub-acuminate. Panicles below 
the leaves. Calyx entire. Berry oblong, and often heer 
liquely so. ” 
Calyptranthes Jambolana. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 2 z 
975. . 
Perin-njara. Rheed. 5. t. 29. 
Jumboo, Jumboo, Sanscrit names. 
Beng. Kalla-jam. 
‘Telling. Nasedoo. — 
This grows to be a large tree, is common every’ where, 
both in its wild and cultivated states; every soil and ay j 
tuation suiting it equally well, Flowering time the be- 
ginning of the hot Season, The fruit ripens in Jalyand | 
August. 
