Eugenia. icosandrta 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, beautiful, 

 shady head. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, 

 pointed, waved, smooth, shining, firm, from four to live 

 inches long, and two broad. Stipules none. Panicles 

 often opposite on the naked hranchlets, 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, inserted into 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 

 mount?iinous parts of the coast of a superior quality, and 

 as lar^e as a pigeon's egg. 



5. C. ohtusifolia. R. 



Leaves elliptic, obtuse, polished ; panicles below the 

 leaves. Corol calyptrate. Berry oblong, one-seeded. 



Jambolifera pedunculata. Gcert. sem. 1. 178. t. 36. 



Jambolana. Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 42. 



A tree of considerable size, a native of the Moluccas. 

 In the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it has been 

 about twelve years, it blossoms in March, and the fruit 

 ripens in June. It differs from E. Jambolana of the conti- 



