MYRTACE^. 151 



EUGENIA. F.B.I. 59 VIII. 



A very large genus of over 700 species, divided in 

 Gen. Plant, into three sub-genera, considered by some 

 distinct genera, Jambosa Syzygium and Eu-eugenia. All 

 our wild species belong to the second, and the descrip- 

 tion which follows belongs more especially to it. 



Large trees or shrubs, with opposite, simple and entire 

 slightly scented leaves. Flowers in terminal cymose 

 panicles, with short pedicels, small. Calyx-tube egg- 

 shaped, the ovary quite immersed in it : sepals four or five 

 short. Petals as many, round without any stalk; some- 

 times connected together and falling off as a whole. 

 Stamens many in several series : filaments slender, curled 

 down in bud : anthers versatile, small. Fruit a globular 

 or oblong berry, with two seeds. 



Species in this sub-genus about 100, most of them belonging 

 to India and Malaya. The F.B.I, gives 76 for India alone. 



Several species are cultivated for their fruits, buds, etc. as Clove, Rose 

 Apple, Malabar Plum, Jambalam ; Fr. Jambosier ; Ger. Kirschniyrtlie. 



Leaves 2^^ by ij^ inches elliptic acuminate, drooping. . . 



Umbrella-tree E. arnottiana. 



Leaves 4 by 2 inches elliptic obtuse, thick, stiff ; twigs thick 



four-angled . . . , E. montana. 



Leaves i by ^ inch nearly round, close set, stiff 



E. calophylli folia. 



Eugenia arnottiana Wight, Herb. Prop. ! ; F.B.I, ii 

 483, VIII 41 ; Umbrella tree of Ootacamund ; distin- 

 guished among our species by its spreading habit, its 

 bunches of red flower-buds or berries, and its limply 

 drooping leaves. 



Bark grey, smooth, usually well-covered with lichens ; 

 main branches spreading, crooked and bent. Leaves 

 opposite or nearly so, when freshly opened pinkish-red 

 and erect, but soon drooping ; elliptic narrowed at the 

 base to the J^ inch stalk, and acute or acuminate at the 



