Syzverum. MYRTACER. 329° 
VI. SYZYGIUM.  Gertn. fr. 1. t. 33. 
Calyx-tube obovate: limb nearly entire or repand-lobed. Petals 4-5, 
roundish, in sestivation forming a calyptra or lid, and falling off either in that 
state from the calyx, or immediately after expansion. Stamens numerous, 
distinct. Ovary 2-celled, with several ovules in each cell. Style 1. Stigma 
simple. Berry 1-celled, 1- or few-seeded. Seed globose. Cotyledons large, 
fleshy, nearly hemispherical: radicle small, inserted between the cotyledons 
below their middle, and concealed by them.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves op- 
posite, quite entire, glabrous. Pedunoeles axillary or terminal, cymose or 
corymbose. 
1015. (1) S. Jambolanum (DC.:) arborescent: leaves oval or oblong, more 
9r less acuminated or obtuse, feather-nerved, coriaceous : cymes panicled, lax, 
usually lateral on the former year's- branches, occasionally axillary or termi- 
nal: calyx shortly turbinate, truncated: berry olive-shaped, often oblique.— 
DC. prod. 3. p. 259 ; Wall. L. n. 8560; Wight! cat. n. 1069.—S. caryophylli- 
folium, DC. prod. 3. p. 260; Wall.! L.n. 3562.—Eugenia Jambolana, Lam. 
ene. meth. 3. p. 198 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 484 ; Ham. in Wern. soc. trans. 5. p. 
342.— E. Jambolifera, Roab. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 156.—E. obtusifolia, Roxb. 
A. Ind. 2. p. 485.—E. caryophyllifolia, Lam. l. c.—Calyptranthes Jambolana, 
Willd. sp. 2. p. 975; Spr. syst. 2. p. 500 (char. bad).—C. caryophyllifolia, 
Willd l. c. (excl. syn. Rumph. and Burm.) ; Spr. l. c.—Myrtus Cumini, Linn. 
8p. p. 674 de syn.); Burm. Ind. p. 115 (excl. syn. Rumph. and Burm.) 
—Madan, Burm. Zeyl. p. 197.—Pluk. t. 274. f. 2; Rheed. Mal. 5. t. 29; 
Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 42. Travancore. Malabar. Coromandel. : 
Dr Hamilton has some valuable observations on the synonyms of this 
plant, in which we entirely coincide. We have not deemed it necessary 
to split the species into varieties taken from the shape of the leaves, as they 
vary exceedingly, probably from being very much cultivated: we have some 
fore us oblong-lanceolate, and attenuated at the base, some ovate-acu- 
minated and rounded at the base, others elliptical with either a very short 
sudden blunt acumination or none at all: the last mentioned is the type of 
Eug. Jambolana, Lam. ; the first, of his E. caryophyllifolia ; but we have 
many intermediate gradations. We have not seen the fruit of E. caryophylli- 
folia, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 486 (E. calyptrata, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 
1142); it is described and figured as much smaller and globular: but the spe- 
«mens from Roxburgh which we possess shew no difference whatever. 
1016. (2) S. densiflorum (Wall. :) leaves elliptic oblong, acuminated, fold- 
» coriaceous, dotted: cyme dense, corymbose ; peduncles lateral, general. 
and partial stout, the partial ones short and bearing at the apex an umbel of 
8-12 almost sessile flowers subtended by oblong-linear caducous bracteas : 
calyx shortly turbinate ; limb cup-shaped, shortly and bluntly 4-toothed or 
: petals expanded before falling off—Wall.! L. n. 3601 ; Wight ! cat. 
n. 1070.— —Neelgherries. A 2 
This is very closely allied to S. inophyllum, DC., the flowers being of the 
oi Sane and similar in appearance. We have only seen specimens with- 
it. ^ : sacs 
. 3017. (3) S. caryophylleum (Geertn.:) leaves obovate, obtuse or with a 
Very short dich ira iiti. tapering towards the base, rcm] 
coriaceous, inconspicuously dotted ; the upper side becoming black x Á dry- 
ing: cymes corymbose, trichotomous, terminal, lax: calyx shortly turbinate, 
inconspicuously repand or 4-toothed : fruit globose, 1-seeded.—Gertn. fr. 1. 
- 83; DC. prod. 3. p. 260 ; Wall.! L. n. 3563; Wight! cat. n. 1071.—Calyp- 
tranthes carvophyllata, Pers.—Myrtus caryophyllata, Linn. ; Spr. syst. 2. 
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