Eugenia. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 491 
Myrtus Coromandeliana. Kon. Mss. 
Myrtus bracteata. Willd. 2. 969. 
Teling. Gorag-moodee. 
Hind. and Beng. Hijulee Mendee. 
It grows in great abundance on the sand hills near to 
the sea on the coast of Coromandel. 
19. E. polygama. R. 
Polygamous. Leaves short-petioled, elliptic, cuspi- 
date. Panicles axillary on some trees, and not on others, 
villous, Stigma capitate. . 
A native of the Malay Archipelago. I have not seen. 
the pericarp, its genus is therefore uncertain, particalar- 
ly as it has a capitate stigma. 
20. E. venusta. R. 
Arboreous, with numerous drooping branchlets. Leaves : 
broad-lanceolar, obtusely acuminate. Panicles axillary 
and terminal, brachiate, shorter than the leaves, ultimate 
divisions three-flowered. . 
From Tippera, where this elegant tree is indigenous, the 
seeds were received into this garden, where in six years 
the largest of the young trees was about twelve feet high, 
clothed with innumerable slender, drooping branches 
down to the ground. Bark of the woody parts dark 
brown and smooth, of the tender shoots green and smooth. 
Leaves opposite, short petioled, from lanceolar to ob- 
long ; when the plants were younger they were much 
narrower in proportion to their length, entire, firm, highly 
Polished, obtusely acuminate; from three to four inches 
long, and one and a half broad. Panicles axillary, more 
rarely terminal, shorter than the leaves, composed of 
brachiate pairs of branches with their ultimate divisions 
_ three-flowered, all round and smooth. Flowers like 
those of the common myrtle, and about the - ‘same size. 
Jalyx four-toothed. Corol of four short-clawed, orbicu- 
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