LVI. MYRTACEyE. VJli 



Elowers : Mar.-May. Veen. Jdmhhal. 



Tliroiigliout the Presidency (except Sincl) botli wild and cultivatod. Konkax : very 

 common at IMatlieniu, Coolcel, Woodrow] Decc.w : Alaliableslnvar, the coimiiuiiest 

 tree on the hill, Co<)k-e\ Gujarat: Dangs, Wuodroiv. Kanaka: common in the moist 

 forests of N. Kaiiara, Talbot. — Distuib. Tiiroughont India; Ceylon; Malaya, 

 Australia. 



The cnltivaled fruit is often as large as a pigeon's egg and is eaten largely by the 

 natives. The flavor is subacid and rather astringent. For other uses of the products 

 of tlic tree, see Walt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



12. Eugenia Heyneana, Datlde, in Hooh. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2 (1878) 

 p. 500. A shrill), scarcely a small tree, 12-15 ft. high, growing in the 

 beds or on the banks of streams and rivers. Leaves 3-4 by ^-1 in., 

 oblong-kuceolate, subobtuse, glabrous and shining, pellucid-dotted, base 

 tapering ; main nerves very numerous, fine, uniting in an intramarginal 

 nerve; petiole ^-f in. long. Flowers j in. across, white, sessile or 

 shortly pedicelled, in small heads at the ends of the branches of cymes 

 \\ hich are lateral from the scars of fallen leaAes, rarely axillary. Calyx 

 ■i— yV ill. long, externally rugulose, funnel-shaped. Petals calyptrate. 

 Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, | in. long, crowned with the cup-shaped c^alj-x- 

 limb. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 170 ; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1898) p. 037; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 284. Ewjenia 

 saliclfoJia, AVight, 111. v. 2 (1850) p. 16 ; Icon. t. 539 ; Bedd. For. Man. 

 in Fior. Sylvat. p. cix (not E. saHcifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 3 (1828) p. 278, 

 nor of Berg, in JMart. Fl. Bras. v. 14, part 1, p. 312). Sijzijijivm 

 Ilei/ueamim, Wall. Cat. 3599. Si/zi/(/lum saiicifolium, Grab. Cat. (1839) 

 p. 73; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 94 (7wt AVall. Cat. 3597).— Flowers: Mar.-May. 

 Veun. Pdn-Jdmhlial ; Bedas. 



Koxkan: StocJcsl Deccan : Rotunda Gh;it, Mahableshwar, also in the bed of the 

 Koina river above Par bridge, Graham ; below Mahableshvvar, Wuudmtv ! ; Koina 

 valley, H. M. B'trdwood. Kanaka : common througliout N. Kanara in the beds of 

 streams and rivers, Talbot, Woodrow ; Chandvar, IlUchie, 1753 ! — Distuib. India 

 (\V. Peuinsida, Berar, and Central Provinces). 



Vab. aliernans, Duthie, in Ilook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 500. Cymes 

 from the axils of the upper leaves. >S. alternaus (sp.), Miq. in Herb, 

 llohenhacker. 



Ko.nkan and Kanaka : Sfocks !, Huhrnhackcr. 



13. Eugenia macrosepala, Duthie, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2 

 (1878) p. 501. A spreading bushy shrub; bark brownish; upper 

 branches stout. Leaves 2|— 1| by 1^-1 :j in., elliptic-oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, base usually acute ; main nerves sleudez", 

 about 10-15 pairs, indistinct above, conspicuous beneath, uniting some- 

 what obscurely within the margin ; petioles | in. long. Flowers sessile, 

 lateral from the leafless axils, solitary or in pairs; bracteoles 2 beneath 

 the calyx, lineai', pilose. Calyx \ in. long, clothed outside with long 

 spreading white hairs ; tube very short ; lobes 4, lanceolate, acute, 

 ciliate, usnally exceeding the petals. Petals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 ciliolate. Fruit not seen. There is no fruit on any of the specimens in 



