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surface olivaceous the lower pale-brown : main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 

 slightly curved upwards, interarching to form a marginal nerve '1 in. to 

 •15 in. from the edge ; length 6 to 11 in. ; breadth 1-75 to 3 in. ; petiole 

 "3 to 5 in. Flowers 1 to 1*5 in. in diameter, in sessile or shortly peduncu- 

 late fascicles of three from the branches below the leaves. Calyx-tube 

 obconic about '5 in. long, tapering into the quarter inch long ebracteo- 

 late pedicel ; calyx-lobes 4, broadly rounded, coriaceous, not reflexed. 

 Fetals orbicular, with a broad claw, the edges thin, about '4 in. in diam. 

 (when dry). Fruit about the size of a hen's eg^y obovate, turbinate to 

 elliptic-ovoid, smooth and glossy, from pale-rose-coloured to dark-pur- 

 ple, crowned by the inflexed calyx-lobes, edible. Seed usually solitary. 

 Duthie in Hook. fil. El. Brit. India. II, 471 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 483 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 3611; Wight 111. II, 14, t. 98; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLVI, Pt. 2, 68 ; For. Fl. Brit. Burm. I, 493. F. macrophylla, 

 Lam. Encyc. III. 196. Jamhosa malaccensis, DO. Prod. Ill, 286 ; Korth. 

 in Ned. Kruidk. (1847), 200 ; Bot. Mag. 4408 ; W. & A. Prodr. I, 332. 

 J. purptirascens, DC. l.c, excl. syn. Roxb. /. domestica, Rumph. Herb. 

 Amb. I, 121, t. 37 (not good) and 38, f. i ; DC. I.e. 288 ; Blume Mus. 

 Bot. I, 91 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 411. Myrtus macrophylla, 

 Spreng. ; Blume Bijdr. 1084. M. malaccensis, Spreng. ; Blume l.c. 1083. 

 —Burm. Fl. Ind. 114; Rheede Hort. Mai. I, 29, t. 18. 



Doubtfully wild in any of the Provinces, but frequently cultivated 

 as it also is in Burma, the Malayan Islands and British India. 



The variety with very dark purple ovoid-elliptic fruit was described 

 as a species by Roxburgh and has the following synonymy : — Fugenia 

 ptrpwrea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37 ; Fl. Ind. II, 483; Wight 111. II, 14; 

 Ic. II, 549. Jamhosa purpurea. Wall. Cat. 3610. /. domestica, var. 

 pur'purea, ^Xvixne Mus. Bot. I, 92; Miq. l.c. — /. nigra, Rumph. Amb. 

 125, t. 38, fig. 1 ? 



6. Eugenia pseudo-pormosa, King n. sp. A glabrous shrub; 

 young branches slender, sub-terete, compressed near the nodes, pale. 

 Leaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, acuminate, slightly 

 narrowed to the rounded base; upper surface olivaceous-brown when 

 dry, the lower pale yellowish-brown; main-nerves 14 to 20 pairs, 

 curving upwards, interarching "15 to *25 in. from the margin ; length 7 

 to 12 in. ; breadth 3 to 5 in. ; petiole *! or '2 in. long, or absent. Flowers 

 white tinged with red, sessile in densely crowded fascicles or very 

 condensed cymes at the apices of the branches, '6 in. in diam., the buds 

 globular. Galyx '4 in. long ; the tube cylindric-campanulate, the 

 mouth with 4 broad blunt lobes becoming hardly triangular. Petals 

 orbicular. Style 1*5 in. long. Stamens and /rm'^ unknown. 



Perak: Wray 1809, 3581; King's Collector 3401, 5389, 6254; 

 Scortechini. Singapore : Bidlei/ 9520. 



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