248 NOTES FROM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, SYDNEY, xviii., 



triplice orcline, circiter 4 mm. longa. Antherae loculamenta paral- 

 lela. Ovulum biloculare. Fructus depresso-globosi 2-2J cm. in 

 diametro metientes et vix l^cm. alti, ccerulei. Semen solitarum. 



A middle-sized tree, with a thick stem 65 inches in circumference 

 at a height of 1 yard from the ground, according to Dr. Tomans' 

 measurements of the type-tree, and with a moderately spreading 

 much-branched crown. Bark of a brownish-white colour, rather 

 rough, easily pulling off in large pieces, leaving a smooth, light- 

 brown surface underneath. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, generally 2 to 

 2 J inches long, and 1 to 1^ inches broad, tapering into an obtuse 

 point, dark green above, paler underneath, finely and irregularly 

 penniveined and loosely reticulate, the oil-dots distinctly visible 

 when dry. Petioles short, about J inch long. Flowers numerous 

 and crowded in terminal thyrsoid panicles, usually six together, 

 shortly pedicellate on the ultimate panicle-branches. Buds clavate. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, scarcely above a line long, produced above 

 the ovulary, and with four long-persistent shallow obtuse lobes. 

 Petals four, falling off together in a small shallow calyptra. 

 Stamens numerous, in about 3 rows (154 in the flowers counted), 

 about 4 mm. long; anther-cells parallel. Ovulary 2-celled. Fruit 

 depressed-globular, 2 to 1\ cm. in diameter, and not quite l|cm. 

 high, of a lilac-pink colour, one-seeded. 



The new Eugenia belongs to the Section Syzygium, and is closely 

 allied to E. Ventenatii Benth., but the general aspect is so different, 

 that we can scarcely regard it as a form of the same species. E. Tom- 

 linsii is chiefly distinguished from E. Ventenatii by the short and 

 broad leaves, less than half as long as those of E. Ventenatii, by 

 the smaller, much more numerous and crowded flowers, and by the 

 bluish fruits. The blue fruits distinguish it from any other Aus- 

 tralian Eugenia of the Section Syzygium; the only other Aus- 

 tralian Eugenia with blue fruits, E. cyanocarpa F.v.M., belongs 

 to the Section Jambosa. 



We do not know, at present, the range of the tree. Dr. Tomlins 

 has seen only a single tree. We have not received it from any other 

 locality, and F. M. Bailey does not record a Eugenia from Queens- 

 land, answering to the above description. 



