60 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
bracteoles at the apex: calyx and outer surface of the petals tomentose, calyx lobes suborbicular quincunxly 
embracating on the margins : petals subelliptic, redish within, clothed exteriorly with white adpressed pube- 
scence: stamens very numerous, filaments slender purplish, anthers small : style as long as the stamens, tapering 
upwards : stigma capitate : berry globose, tomentose, soft succulent and yellowish when ripe, crowned with the 
persistent lobes of the calyx. 
As already stated, this genus occupies a place intermediate between Psidium (Guava,) and Myrtus ; it has 
much of the habit of the former, but differs widely in its ovary. In habit it is widely distinct from Myrtus 
communis, the only genuine species I know, and also in its ovary the cells, having invariably 2 rows of colla- 
teral ovules, while in Myrtus there are four. In the form of the seed they also differ, in this they are always 
compressed and horizontal ; in that thick approaching to globose on the back, very few (at least in this coun- 
try) coming to maturity, while in this nearly all do so. 
Ruopomyrtus Tomentosas (R. W.) Myrtus fruit, and when ripe is very palatable. The jelly ob- 
tomentosa, Aiton Hort, Kew and others. Myrtus tained from them is much used, as it much resembles 
(Rhodomyrtus) tomentosa.—DC. Prod. 3, p. 240. apple jelly both in taste and appearance. 
Very common on every part of the Hills, where it The plant equally abounds in some parts of Cey- 
is generally known as the “ Hill gooseberry,” a name_ lon, or one very like, in Malacca, China, &c., in all of 
far from inappropriate, as it a good deal resembles that which places the fruit eat. 
EUGENIA. 
Calyx tube short, nearly globose, or variously elongated ; limb 4 or 5 cleft. Petals 4 or some multiple 
of that number, 8-12—rarely five. Stamens numerous, distinct. Ovary 2-celled, with numerous ovules at- 
tached to axillary placente. Berry crowned by the segments of the ealyx, one, or rarely two-celled. Seeds 
one or two large : cotyledons thick and fleshy, partially or completely combined into one mass with the radicle : 
radicle very short scarcely distinguishable. 
Trees or shrubs with opposite, entire, pellucid-dotted leaves and axillary or terminal, solitary or aggre- 
gated peduncles either simple and one-flowered, or racemose, cymose, or panicled. Flowers small and very 
numerous, or large conspicuous and comparatively few, usually white but sometimes coloured. Fruit a suc- 
culent few seeded berry, white, pale redish, or deep purple coloured, usually sweetish, sometimes combined 
with a peculiar rose flavour, (as the rose apple,) at others rough and astringent. ? 
This is a very extensive and complex genus, but at the same time, when properly understood a very dis- 
tinct and natural one, essentially resting on points of structure not liable to change, the number, namely, of 
cells, of the ovary and peculiar formation of seed. 
When DeCandolle undertock its elaboration for the third volume of his Prodromus, he seems to have 
felt the task a difficult one, owing to the ever varying forms its numerous species present. Here we find 
almost side by side, small shrubs and large trees inflorescence of nearly every imaginable form, flowers the 
most minute and clustered on one species, on another large, showy and distinct, usually white, but as in 
the case Eug. (Jambosa) Malaccenses, deep crimson. On more closely analysing the parts of the flower, we 
find some with the calyx tube very short, almost inconspicuous, in others forming a little ball under the flower, 
and in others lengthened out. into a long cylinder like tube exceeding an inch in length. The limb in like 
manner is either deeply lobed, merely toothed, or cup-shaped, and quite entire on the margin. The petals for 
the most part expand in the usual form, but in the subgenera Syzygium and Caryophyllus, they are, in the 
flower-bud, usually so closely adpressed to each other that they never open, but are forced off all in one, like a 
lid, by the progressive enlargement of the enclosed stamens. | 
To several of these secondary variations, notwithstanding the uniformity of the more essential organi- 
zation, he attached generic value, and divided the genus into four or five genera, Eugenia had the limb of the 
calyx cleft down to the ovary. Jambosa had a turbinate calyx tube attenuated at the base, and the limb 4-cleft. 
Acmena,'a turbinate calyx tube, and the limb entire. Caryophyllus, a cylindrical calyx tube, 4-parted limb, 
and four cohering petals ; and lastly, Syzygium had an obovate calyx tube, subentire limb and concrete petals 
separating like a lid, 
