82 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Malacca : Griffith 2352, Maingay 748, Hervey. Singapore : Bidley 

 89:^1. Andaman and IS'icobar islands (very common). Distrib. — Java, 

 Zollinger, 2nd Journey 808, etc. ; Timor Lanfc, Forhes 334 ; New Guinea 

 and many of the other islands of the Archipelago. 



Distinguished in the group by its shortly petiolate leaves and pedunculate lax 

 racemes which are often terminal. 



VAR. Boxhurghiana, Duthie in Fl. Br. Ind. II, 475 ; leaves almost 

 sessile, cordate and amplexicaul at the base, the apex rounded. F. decora, 

 Wall. Cat. 3608. 



4. Eugenia Jambos, Linn. Sp. PL 47. A shrub or small glabrous 

 tree : young branches more or less four-angled, pale-brown, rather slender. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, tapering to each end, the 

 apex acuminate (sometimes almost caudate) the base more abruptly 

 narrowed to the petiole ; both surfaces pale-olivaceous when dry ; the 

 main-nerves distinct on the lower, 10 to 14 pairs, slightly curved, 

 ascending, interarching in a rather faint nerve -1 in. inside tbe edge, 

 the secondary nerves rather distinct, one (sometimes two) between 

 each pair of primaries ; length 4 to 7 in. ; breadth 1 to 1-6 in. ; petiole '25 

 in. Flowers 2-5 to 3 in. in diam., in few-flowered terminal racemes shorter 

 than the leaves, the pedicels "3 to *4 in. long. Galyx-tuhe turbinate, 

 •5 in. long, the lobes 4, broad, short, reflexed. Petals much larger than 

 the calyx-lobes, obovate-rotand, about '5 in. long ; filaments 1-5 to 2 in. 

 long, shorter than the style. Fruit ovoid or globular, 1-5 to 2 in. long, 

 dull-yellow tinged with pink, smooth, endocarp fleshy and edible, 



crowned by the inflexed caljx-lobes. Seeds one or two. Roxb. Hort. 



Beng. 37; Fl. Ind. II, 49*4; Wall. Cat. 3615; Wight 111. II, 14; 

 Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 474. Brandis For. Fl. 233 ; Kurz 



in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. (1877) Pt. 2, 69; For. Fl. Brit. 



Burm. 1, 495. Jamhosa vulgaris, DC, ; Blume Mus. Bot. I, 93 ; W. 



& A. Prodr. I, 332 ; Bot. Mag. 3356; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 425 ; 



Wight Ic. 435. Myrtus Jamhos, Kunth ; Koith. in Ned. Kruidk. 



Arch. I, (1846), 200 ; Blume Bijdr. 1085.— Rumph. Herb. Amb. I, 123 ; 



Rheede Hort. Mai. I, 27, f. 17. 



Cultivated in most of the provinces : perhapr wild in Perak; Scorte- 



chini; Maingay 735. Cultivated also in British India. 



Readily distinguished in this section by its narrow leaves attenuated to each 



end and few-flowered terminal racemes, 



5. Eugenia malaccensls, Linn. Sp. Plantar. 470. A glabrous tree, 30 



to 40 feet high ; young branches almost terete (slightly compressed) with 



pale bark. Leaves coriaceous, with short but distinct petioles, narrowly 



elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, the apex more or less suddenly 



acute, the base much tapered to the petiole : when dry the upper 

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