264 MYRTACEAE. 



oval or obovate, short-petioled, rather thick leaves about 2' long, and small, 

 white flowers in cymes. [Myrtus fragrans S\v.] 



Jambos Jambos (L.) Millsp., ROSE-APPLE, East Indian, but widely 

 naturalized in the West Indies, is a tree up to 40 high, with firm glabrous 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, short-petioled leaves 5'-8' long, about 

 1' wide or less, and terminal corymbs of few large white flowers, with many 

 stamens l'-li' long, much surpassing the petals; its subglobose fruits are about 

 V long. This tree is occasional in gardens; the fine specimen at Par-la- Ville 

 flowered in 1914. [Eugenia jambos L. ; Jambosa vulgaris DC.] 



Jambos malacensis (L.) DC., MALAY APPLE, also East Indian, recorded 

 by Lefroy as fruiting at Par-la- Ville in 1878, has broader leaves and lateral 

 corymbs of smaller purple flowers, the top-shaped, red fruit about 4' long. 

 [Eugenia malacensis L.] 



Syzygium jambolanum (Lam.) DC., JAVA PLUM, JAMBOLAN, of south- 

 eastern Asia, a tree up to 50 high, with evergreen firm closely-veined, oval 

 slender-petioled leaves 3'-6' long, not glandular-dotted, the small white flowers 

 in terminal panicled cymes, the 4 or 5 petals cohering in a cap, the edible 

 berries J'-jr' long, is not uncommonly planted. Large trees were seen at 

 Montrose and at Bellevue in 1914. [Eugenia jambolana Lam.] 



Eucalyptus globulus Labill., AUSTRALIAN BLUE GUM, Australian, com- 

 monly planted, is a tall, nearly smooth-barked tree, attaining 200 or more in 

 its native forests. Like some other species of the genus the leaves of shoots 

 are quite different from the mature foliage; in this, the shoot-leaves are oppo- 

 site, thin, ovate, cordate-clasping or connate at the base, whitish-waxy beneath, 

 3 '-6' long; the later leaves are alternate, thick, petioled, narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate and somewhat curved; the flowers are axillary, the obconic calyx- 

 tube and its lid verrueose, waxy. 



Eucalyptus robusta Smith, SWAMP-MAHOGANY GUM, Australian, occa- 

 sionally planted, is a tree, becoming up to 100 high, with roughish bark, its 

 mature leaves broadly lanceolate, thick, long-acuminate, finely pinnately-veined, 

 5'-7' long, their stout petioles about A' long; its clustered large white flowers 

 are axillary, the calyx-lid with a conic tip. 



Eucalyptus resinifera Smith, KING EUCALYPTUS, EED AUSTRALIAN GUM, 

 also planted, is tall, roughish-barked, with slender-petioled lanceolate curved 

 acuminate leaves 4'-6' long, small flowers and fruits, the calyx-lid conic, longer 

 than the calyx-tube. Lefroy notes that this species resisted the wind. 



Eucalyptus coriacea Cunn., AUSTRALIAN WHITE GUM, mentioned by Le- 

 froy as making poor growth, does not appear to exist here at the present time. 



Eucalyptus polyanthemos Schauer, EED BOX-TREE, Australian, a tree which 

 becomes 150 high with a roughish brown bark, and has orbicular or broadly 

 ovate, slender-petioled mature leaves l'-2i' broad, its small white flowers 

 panicled, the calyx-lid short, was grown from seed at the Agricultural Station, 

 where a quantity of young plants, about 3 high, were seen in 1913. 



Eucalyptus saligna Smith, NARROW-LEAVED AUSTRALIAN GUM, seen at the 

 Agricultural Station in 1913, has linear-lanceolate leaves with spreading veins, 

 small, capitate flowers, the bluntly conic lid longer than the calyx-tube, the 

 fruit about 4" in diameter. 



Eucalyptus rostrata Schlecht., EED AUSTRALIAN GUM, also seen at the 

 Agricultural Station, reaches a height of 200 in Australia, has narrowly 

 lanceolate, more or less curved leaves 5 '-7' long, with ascending veins, umbel- 

 late flowers, the usually beaked lid as long as the calyx-tube or longer, the 

 globose fruit 2i" 3" in diameter. 



Callistemon lanceolatus (Smith) DC., BOTTLE BRUSH, Australian, also in 

 the collection at the Agricultural Station in 1913, is a shrub or small tree with 

 thick lanceolate acute leaves l'-3' long, the showy flowers in cylindric spikes 

 about 4' long, the numerous red long-exserted stamens about V long. 



