402 LVT. MYETACE.t:. 



0. Eugenia utilis, Talbot, in Journ. Bomh. Nat. Hist. Soc. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 23-3. A large quite glabrous tree ; bark grey, scaly ; branches 

 terete. Leaves coriaceous, 2-3 by l-l^ in-, elliptic, abruptly and shortly 

 acuminate, conspicuously gland-dotted, base acute ; main nerves 

 numerous, fine, close, uniting at the margin into an inconspicuous 

 nerve ; petioles ^-g in. long. Flowers small, in axillary and terminal 

 corymbose panicled cymes which are shorter than the leaves, 2-3 flowers 

 together on the ends of tbe slender angular branches of tbe cyme ; buds 

 globose or pear-sliaped ; bracteoles lanceolate. Calyx y^ in. long, 

 turbinate, rugulose externally, truncate or very indistinctly 4-lobed. 

 Petals calyptrate. Fruit small, blade, succulent, crowned with the 

 persistent cal\ x-lobes. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. IGi). — Flowers : 

 May-June. 



Common in evergreen or on tbe borders of evergreen forests in the southern parts 

 of N. Kanara, Talbof. 



'J'be wood is moderately lieavy and tou;;b, of a reddisb-brown color and is greatly in 

 demand in tlie Sirsi subdivision of N. Ivauara for building purposes, Talbot. — Distrib. 

 Ap])arently endemic. 



10. Eugenia Gardneri, DatUe, in Hool: f. Fh B. I. v. 2 (1878) 

 p. 489. A large glabrous tree ; bark smooth, pale-grey ; branchlets 

 terete, or sometimes somewhat comjn'essed, white. Leaves 2:j-3j by 

 ^-1| in., elliptic-oblong, usually caudate-acuminate, minutely pellucid- 

 dotted, base acute ; main nerves conspicuous, very numerous, parallel, 

 close, uniting in an intramarginal nerve ; petioles |-| in. long. Flowers 

 white, \-^ in. across, numerous, sessile or nearly so, usually in threes at 

 the extremities of the branches of copious axillary and terminal cymes 

 which are shorter than the leaves ; buds globose. Calyx ^-^ in. long, 

 campanulate, rugulose outside, truncate, with obscure segments. Petals 

 calyptrate. Fruit spherical, |-| in. in diani., not crowned with the 

 calyx-segments. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 174. Si/zi/gixin Gardneri, 

 Thwaites, Eimm. p. 117. Ewjenia Jcanarensis, Talb. in Joiu-n. Bomb. 

 Nat. Hist. «oc. v. 11 (1897) p. 236, t. 4 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 160. 



Kanara: Gairsoppa Gliat above Mulamani (N. Kanara), 2000 ft., Talbof, 3552!— 

 Distrib. India (Ghats of tbe W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



11. Eugenia Jambolana, Lamk. Enci/c. Mcthod.y. 3 (1789) p. 198. 

 A large tree ; bark light-colored, thick, rough, exfoliating ; branches 

 terete, very pale when dry. Leaves coriaceous, variable, 2|-4| by 

 14-2| in., lanceolate, elliptic-oblong or broadly ovate-elliptic, acute, 

 subobtuse or shortly acuminate, smooth and shining, pellucid-dotted, 

 slightly narro\^ed at the base ; main nerves very many, slender, 

 prominent on the lower surface, uniting into an intramarginal nerve, 

 reticulations numerous between the main nerves; petioles .5-I in. long. 

 Flowers dirty-uhite, fragrant, about fV-fV in. across, sessile or shortly 

 pedicelled, crowded in heads on the ends of laxly panicled cymes rising 

 from the branches below the leaves (rarely axillary or t(n'minal). Calyx 

 ■^ in. long, rugulose externally, shortly turbinate ; limb cup-shaped, 

 yellow inside, truncate or with 4 very obscure segments. Petals calyp- 

 trate. Fruit the shape of an olive, or subglobose, varying in size from a 

 pea to a pigeon's egg, dark-purple, smooth, juic}', crowned with the 

 tnuicate calyx-limb, l-sceded. Fl. B. 1. v. 2, p. 499; Wight, Icon. 



