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icosANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Eugenia. 



flowers they call Lal-phool-jamb. Their leaves are 

 amongst the largest of the genus being from six to fifteen 

 inches long, aad from three to six broad. 



15. E. angustifolia. R. 



Leaves tern, linear-lauceolar. Peduncles lateral, from 

 three to four-flowered. Corol many petalled. 



A small tree, a native of Chittagong, where it flowers 

 in March and April. The fruit ripens in June and July. 



It is readily known by its many-petalled corol, having 

 from twelve to sixteen petals, and by its three- fold leaves. 



16. E Zeylanica. Willd 2. 963. 



Arboreous. Leaves short petioled, oblong, obtusely 

 acuminate, lucid, veinless, when young villous. Pedun- 

 cles axillary, generally solitary, or crowded on little co- 

 mose racemes. 



A native of the Silbet District, where it is called Na- 

 gasun Jamb, and grows to be a tree of a middling size, 

 flowering in April. 



17. E. myrtifolia. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves lanceolate, taper, obtusely pointed, 

 lucid. Peduncles axillary, compound, many-flowered. 

 Berries spherical. 



A beautiful small tree or large shrub, a native of Su- 

 matra, from whence it was sent by Dr. C. Campbell to 

 the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where in nine years the 

 plants from seed had attained the height of six or seven 

 feet, when they began to blossom in March and April, 

 and the seed ripened in May and June. 



18. E. bracteata. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves oblong, ventricose, obtuse, lucid. 

 Peduncles axillary, one, rarely two or three, one flower- 

 ed. Involucre two-leaved. Berries spherical, smooth. 



