Eugenia. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.  =—«-_ 485 
‘Trunk generally a little crooked. Bark whitish with 
a few cracks. Branches the larger irregular, the smaller 
depending ; the whole forming a very large; beautifal, 
shady head. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, . 
pointed, waved, smooth, shining, firm, from four to five 
inches long, and two broad. Stipules none. Panicles 
often opposite on the naked branchlets, just below the 
leaves, middle-sized, globular, cross-armed, rigid, and 
subdivided by them. _ Calyx cup-form, with the margin 
entire, permanent. Petals four, orbicular, claws very 
short, insertedinto the mouth of the corol. Anthers small. 
Germ inferior. Style rather shorter than the stamens, 
declining. Stigma acute. Berry roundish, about the. 
Size of a large cherry, succulent, smooth, when ripe. 
black. Seed one, roundish, smooth. 
The wood of this tree is hard, close grained, and dur- 
able ; it is of course used for various purposes. . 
The bark is strongly astringent, and dyes excellent dur- 
able browns of various shades according to the corrosive 
employed, or the strength of the decoction. 
The fruits are universally eaten when ripe, by man and 
birds ; they are of a subacid, astringent taste. , 
There is a variety of the fruit in the northern and 
mountainous parts of the coast of a sar ealility; and 
as large as a pigeon’s egg. 
5. C. obtusifolia. R. 
Leaves elliptic, obtuse, polished ; seaisie below. the 
leaves. Corol calyptrate. Berry oblong, one-seeded. 
Jambolifera pedunculata. Gert. sem. 1. 178. t. 36. 
Jambolana.. Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 42. 
A tree of considerable size, a native of the Moluccas. 
Inthe Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it has been — 
about twelve years, it blossoms in March, and the fruit . 5: 
ripens in June. It differs from E, Jambolana of the onti- 
