yi8 LViii. MYRTACE^. [Decaspermum. 



Flowers "2 to '3 in. wide. Petals white hairy. Berry globose, "i in. 

 through, black. Hab. Common in woods all over the peninsula 

 from Singapore to Lankawi, in lowland districts. The plant varies 

 to some extent in form of leaves and hairiness, and is sometimes 

 unisexual, and some of these forms have received names. Distrih. 

 Burma, India, Malay Archipelago. Native names : Kelintat 

 Nyamok ; Kelintat Kring ; Kelapit Nyamok ; Empoyan Padang ; 

 Kamuning Batu. 



(2) D. montanum 7?i^/. in Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 61, p. 6. 



A shrub. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, obovate blunt, base 

 narrowed; nerves 5, inconspicuous, 2 to 3 in. long, i to 1*5 in. 

 wide ; petioles 'i in. long. Flowers 6 in axillary racemes i in. long, 

 small, white, often unisexual. Male flowers larger than female. 

 Sepals orbicular, ciliate. Petals obovate. Female flowers clove- 

 shaped with abortive stamens. Berry '13 in. long, globular. 

 Seeds 4 to 5 reniform. Hab. Mountains at 4000 ft. altitude. 

 Malacca, Mt. Ophir and Kedah Peak (Ridley). 



8. EUGENIA, Linn. 



Trees, shrubs, very rarely climbers, glabrous, rarely hairy. 

 Leaves opposite, usually coriaceous ; nerves pinnate, inarching in 

 an intramarginal vein. Inflorescence panicled or cymose, usually 

 terminal, with some panicles in the upper axils, occasionally fascicled, 

 rarely racemose, sometimes on the old wood. Bracts very small, 

 usually caducous. Flowers small or moderate, few or very many. 

 Calyx campanulate or funnel-shaped, narrowed to a pseudo-stalk ; 

 lobes 4 to 5. Petals from mouth of calyx caducous, free or joined 

 into a cap (calyptrate) . Stamens numerous, white, red or green, 

 in one or more circles ; filaments filiform ; anthers minute. Style 

 filiform. Ovary inferior. Fruit i- or 2-seeded; pericarp pulpy 

 or pithy. Species about 1000, whole of the tropics. A very 

 difficult genus to break up into sections or to give a suitable key to 

 species. 



i. Jambosa. Leaves usually large. Flowers in small fascicles usually 

 large and terminal. Calyx funnel-shaped (in i species fusiform) ; lobes 

 large, persistent. Petals free, large. Staminal disc thickened. Stamens 

 long. Fruit usually large, fleshy or pulpy. 



Trees. 



Flowers fascicled on old wood, 2 to 3 in. 



wide. 

 Flowers on branches, crimson ; fruit 



oblong large ; leaves oblong . (i) E. malaccensis 



Flowers on trunk, crimson ; fruit small ; 



leaves lanceolate . . . (2) E. trunciflora 



Flowers on ends of branches, white, i in. 

 across or more. 

 Fruit large, pear-shaped ; leaves 



narrow . . . . . (3) E. Jambos 



Fruit turbinate ; leaves broader . {4) E. aquea 



