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the Upper side ; nerves about 1/5 inch apart (the alternate 

 stronger), prominent on the under side, and meeting in 

 an arched, irregular, marginal vein, often over ^ inch 

 from the edge. Flowers in dense cymose corymbs, on 

 stout stalks in the axils of the uppermost leaves and leaf- 

 like bracts J^ to % inch long, forming dense panicles : 

 cyme branches all very stout, angled. Sepals four obtuse. 

 Petals four united and falling as one piece. Fruit purple, 

 crowned by the sepals, t. 111. Wight Ic. t. 1060. 



Nilgiris : near Ootacamund and below to Pykara and 

 Coonoor common. Young leaves in December, flowers soon 

 after. Fyson 2726, 2016. 



Eugenia calophyllifolia Wight ; Herb. Prop. ! ; F.B.J. 

 ii 494, Vni 86 ; distinguished among our Eugenias by 

 its almost round, closely set and stiffly-erect, leaves. 



A tree flowering when only 10 feet high, but becoming 

 eventually one of the largest, 40 to 60 feet and overtop- 

 ping all others in the shola. Branches with brown bark, 

 when young square; often arising three or four together 

 and almost umbelled as in Pittosporum. Leaf-stalks J^ 

 inch, blade broadly elliptic or obovate, obtuse or retuse 

 at apex, acute at the base, very leathery, I by % inch, or 

 a little larger ; with numerous nerves, more or less parallel 

 but also reticulate below, ending in a hardly distinct 

 marginal nerve ; without pellucid dots ; very hard and 

 firm. Flowers in terminal cymose corymbs : peduncles 

 5^ to % inch, green, rough but glabrous. Calyx conical, 

 1/12 inch, with four short erect sepals- Petals round 

 united and falling as one hemispherical piece, white. 

 Stamens 16 inches curled up in bud, white. Style J4 

 inch. Fruit erect, dark purple, /^ to M inch by ^ to J^ 

 inch, juicy and edible. Seed one, cotyledons very thick. 

 t. 112. Wight Ic. t. 1000. 



Nilgiris : Snowdon, Ganapakkam above Pykara at 7,800 feet 

 and similar spots, also river bank at Pykara 7,600 feet, flowering 



