44 MYRTACEM. [ 1. Eogbhia. 



A small tree with bright green lanceolate or lanceolate- 

 ovate acuminate leaves 3-5 by 1-1 f". Calyx-tube I" 

 truncate, Connective of anther gland-tipped. Berry pisi- 

 form. 



Avery common hill form and perhaps as distinct a species as £. 

 Heyneana. 



Singbhum, Palamau, Manbhuro. Fls., Fr. with the others. 



The fruit is eaten and is said to be useful in dysentery. 



2. E. Heyneana, Wall. Gara-Kuda, K. ; Chuduk' 

 Cud, or Kod^S. ; Kat-jaman, Kharw. 



A shrab or small bushy tree 8-20 ft. high with narrowly- 

 oblong-elliptic or lanceolate acuminate leaves 3-5" by 

 \-l" and lateral cymes of capitate white flowers from the 

 old leaf scars. 



Along streams. Common in Singbhum, common about Dumri 

 (Hazaribagh) ; Manbhum ; Palamau ; and probably other districts not 

 specifically noted. Fl. May-June. Fr. July-Aug. 



L. with the glands more numerous and pellucid than in Jambolana 

 and usually longer-peduncled cymes 2-3'' with braohiate branches. Fls. 

 sub-sessile, usually several in a head, calyx-lobes small, petals oalyptrat* 

 as in 1. Berry £-$'' oblong, crowned by the cup of the hypantiiium. 



The fruit is eaten. 



3. E. Operculata, Moxb. Topa, K. ; Totonopak', 8, ; 

 Paiman, H. 



A low tree with broadly elliptic or ovate leaves 5-7 by 

 3— 8|" and sessile flowers 'in threes in brachiate paaicles 3-6" 

 long mostly from old leaf scars. Berry globose £-±". 



Forests in Singbhum but not as common as the next. Usually in grassy 

 glades ; Hazaribagh (along Konor nadi) ; S. P. (Silingij. Fls. April-May. 

 Fr. June. The leaves turn red before falling. 



Twigs usually quadrangular. L. obtuse or shortly bluntly acuminate 

 base acute or sub-obtuse, sec. n. 8-12 prs. arcuate, tetiole H'' '• Calyx 

 oboonic about &' long and broad. Sepals 4 transversely oblong ■&'' 

 broad glandular. A large gland also On the tip of the connective. 



Var. obovata, Kurs. 



Very different in general appearance and perhaps a 

 distinct species. L. oblanceolate or obovate about 7" by l|-2.* 



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