Eugenia.] lviii. myrtace^. 755 



minute, acute. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped with 4 very short lobes. 

 Hub. Lankawi, Kesap (Haniff). Disirib. India, Burma. 



This -species is very common in India, and variable, and I believe the 

 plant described above is a variety of it, but the flowers are only in young 

 bud. They show distinct traces of lobes in the calyx which I do not see in 

 E. balsamea type. 



(120) E. setosa King, I.e. 120. 



A shrub or creeper 40 to 60 ft. long. Branches covered with 

 short black bristles. Leaves oblong-lanceolate long-cuspidate, 

 glabrous except base of midrib below, base round, 1-35 to 275 in. 

 long, -4 to -85 in. wide ; petioles very short. Panicles hairy, 

 axillary and terminal, 2 in. long and wide. Flowers small, glabrous 

 •4 in. long, greenish yellow. Fruit turbinate, glandular -35 in. 

 long and wide. Hab. Chmbing on trees, forests. Perak, Larut 

 (Kunstler). 



Excluded Species 



E. SWETTENHAMIANA King, l.C. I26. 



The specimens so named by King in the Kew Herbarium, and 

 quoted as types in the original description, are of two ver}' 

 distinct plants, one E. cordifoUaia Ridl., the other, a totally 

 different plant collected by Scortechini, does not appear to be 

 a myrtaceous plant at all. The description is a combination 

 of characters from the two specimens. 



9. PSEUDO-EUGENIA, Scort. 



Small trees. Leaves opposite. Panicles small, axillary, few- 

 flowered. Calyx turbinate 4-lobed. Petals 4, orbicular, clawed. 

 Stamens 8, in two rows on an annular disc. Ovary 2-celled. Drupe 

 I- to 2-seeded. Species 2, Malayan. 



Leaves 4 to 5 in. long, i in. wide; flowers 3 to 4 on 



short peduncles . . . . . . (i) P. perakiana 



Leaves 2 in. long, '6 in. wide; panicles peduncled, 



branched, i in. long-. . . . . • (2) P. singaporensis 



(i) P. perakiana Scortechini, Journ. Bot. 1885, p. 153 ; King, 

 I.e. 133. Eugenia skiophila Duthie, I.e. ii. 486. 



Tree 15 (to 40 ft. fide Scortechini) ft. tall. Leaves thinly cori- 

 aceous elliptic-lanceolate, base narrower, apex caudate-acuminate ; 

 nerves very fine and close, 4 to 6 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. wide ; petioles 

 •I in. long. Flowers 3 to 4 on a short -05 in. long axillary peduncle, 

 white. Calyx -i in. long. Drupe -25 in. long, oblong, globose, 

 bright red. Hcib. In thick forests. Perak, source of Larut River 

 (Scortechini). Penang, Richmond Pool; Telok Bahang (Curtis). 

 Distrib. Sumatra. 



(2) P. singaporensis King, I.e. 133. Myrtus caudata Wall. 

 Cat. 3631. 



Tree 30 to 40 ft. tall with slender branches. Leaves thin cori- 



