Eugenia, ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 487 
cles diverging from the naked branchlets below the leaves, 
cross-armed, rigid. Flowers numerous, small. Calyx 
cup-shaped, obscurely four-toothed. Corol, petals four 
or five, orbicular, concave, sessile, they seldom or never 
expand, but are pushed off by the stamens in one cup- 
shaped body like the calyptra in mosses. Stamens nu- 
merous. Berry round, but in general disfigured, by de- 
pressions or pits, size of a large pea, when ripe black. 
_ Observation. This tree comes exceedingly near my 
Eugenia Jambolana, but when found growing together, 
it is evidently different. I considered them as one, or at 
‘Most as varieties of one species, until I met with them 
both together in this garden, and, have now raised 
plants from the seeds of each, and they continue distinct. 
The best distinguishing marks are stated in the defini- 
tion ; besides, the /eaves and fruit of Jambolana are much 
larger in the same soil ; particularly the fruit, and also 
uniformly of an oblong shape. 
Perin Njara. Rheed. Mal. vol. 5, t. 29. is evidently the 
last mentioned. 
‘The wood is whitish, very strong, close grained, hard and 
durable. The fruit scarcely eatable, whereas many reckon 
that of Jambolana good, particularly if soaked in a lit- 
tle salt and water for about an hour, which removes a 
great part of their superabundant astringency. 
8, E. fruticosa, R. 
Shrubby. Leaves from broad-oblong to oval, finely 
veined. Panicles lateral. Flowers numerous. Calyx en- 
tire. Peduncles and pedicells square. Corol four-petiol- 
ed, but generally deciduous, in form ofa lid. 
Hind. and Beng, Bun-Jamb. 
A large shrub or small tree, a native of Chittagong, It 
flowers during the hot season, and its very small 
seeded berries ripen early in the rainy igre ' {ode 
