Eugenia, icosandria monogvnia. 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 of never 

 expand, but arc pushed off by the stamens in one cup- 

 shaped body like the calyptra in mosses. Stamens nu- 

 merous. Berrij 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 leaves ■a.n(\ fruit oi' Jambolana are much 

 larger in the same soil ; particularly the fruit, and also 

 uniformly of an oblong shape. 



Perin Njara. Rheecl. 3Ial 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 oi 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. Flowtrs numerous. Calyx en- 

 tire. Peduncles and pedicells square. Corol four-petiol- 

 ed, but generally deciduous, 'u\ form of a lid. 



Hind, iind Beng. Bun-Jamb. 



A large shrub or small tree, a native of Chittagong. It 

 flowers during the hot season, and its very small one- 

 seeded berries ripen early in the rainy season. 



