1^2 MYRTACE.^. 



apex ; with strong midrib and very close lateral nerves 

 meeting in a marginal one very close to the edge ; finely 

 dotted both sides, hard and shining, coriaceous. Flow- 

 ers nearly sessile, in terminal umbel-like cymes, with 

 square branches I inch long : bracts soon falling. Calyx 

 broad above, lobes four. Petals distinct, cream-coloured, 

 in bud crimson. Stamens white, spreading stiffly. Berry 

 % inch by ^ inch rather long-egg or urn-shaped, 

 crowned by the sepals, purple when ripe, juicy but quite 

 inedible, t. 109&110. Wight Ic. t. 999- 



Nilgiri, Pulney and Anamalai hills ; at higher elevations, one 

 of the very commonest trees by the wayside or in sholas where it 

 overtops most others. Pulneys : down to 5,500 feet. Not on the 

 Bombay Ghats, nor elsewhere in India. Flowers in the winter 

 months to April, in fruit during the summer. Fpon 641, 1815, 

 1816, 2215, 2216, 2637. Bourne 1092. 



In the shola this tree has usually a reddish look at the top from either 

 the numerous bunches of berries or the flush of young leaves ; and the 

 leaves always droop. 



Eugenia montana Wight ; F.B.I. ii 488, VIII 57 ; 

 a large tree, distinguished from all other of our Euge- 

 nias by the wings on the four edges of the youngest 

 branches, especially in the flowering part ; the branch- 

 lets also very {Ye inch) thick, and the leaves larger than in 

 other of our species, with stronger, not closely set veins. 

 The foliage is distinctly lumpy. 



One of the very largest of shola and way-side trees, 

 the main trunk short, but thick : the branches spreading 

 widely, very bent and crooked, with dull red-brown 

 bark cracked like that of the Scotch Pine. Branchlets, 

 smooth green, four-angled and winged. Leaves opposite 

 or occasionally alternate, obovate or oblong-obovate, up to 

 6 by 354 inches, on short stout stalks of J4 to ^ inch 

 channelled on the upper side ; when mature dark dull 

 green, dotted below, spreading flat ; when young only 

 slightly purplish coloured, erect : midrib channelled on 



