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A species resembling E. formosa in its shrnbby habit and its leaves ; the latter 

 are however thinner in texture and they have more numerous nerves. The flowers 

 of this are however sessile fasciculate and much smaller in size. Wray 3688 and 

 Ridley 9628, which has its clavate flower buds in very short racemes, is probably a 

 form of this species. E, samarangensis DC. much resembles this but has its flowers 

 in small racemes or panicles. 



7. Eugenia papillosa, Dufchie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 495. 

 A tree 40 to 50 feet high : young branches stout about as thick as a 

 goose-quill, terete, brown, those of the inflorescence 4-angled. Leaves 

 coriaceous, somewhat amplexicaul, oblong-elliptic sometimes obovate- 

 elliptic or lanceolate, subacute or blunt, narrowed to the cordate auricu- 

 lafce sub-amplexicaul base ; upper surface smooth, shining, dark-olivace- 

 ous or blackish-brown ; under surface reddish-brown ; main-nerves 16 

 to 20 pairs, curving slightly upwards and interarching '1 to "2 in. from 

 the edge, very prominent on the lower surface like the mid-rib, in- 

 conspicuous or depressed on the upper ; length 8 to 12 in.; breadth 3 

 to 6 in. ; petiole less than '1, very thick. Panicles pedunculate, crowded 

 at the apices of the youngest shoots or axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves : the branches mostly short, divaricate, scurfy like the branch- 

 lets. Flowers (the stamens included) '6 in. long, sessile and collected in 

 globose-clavate bracteate heads of 5 to 8 at the apices of the branchlets ; 

 the bracts oblong, blunt, deciduous. Calyx '35 in. long, funnel-shaped, 

 narrowed above the middle to a pseudo-stalk : the limb wide and 

 with 4 broadly triangular, unequal, reflexed, blunt lobes. Petals orbicular, 

 three times as long as the calyx-lobes, not much shorter than the 

 stamens. Fruit unknown. F. anacardifolia. King MSS. 



Malacca ; Manigay (K.D.) 737 ; Holmherg 873. Singapore : Bidley 

 3829. Perak: Scortechini; King's Collector 2813, 5869, 8475. 



8. EoGENiA DENSiFLORA, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 473. 

 Shrubby, occasionally arboreous, glabrous : young branches compressed, 

 pale-brown. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic -oblong, acuminate, 

 the base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous, shining, finely reticulate, the 

 upper olivaceous (when dry) the lower pale-brown ; main-nerves 12 to 

 20 pairs, slender but distinct on both surfaces (when dry), ascending 

 slightly, curved and interarching "3 to "4 in. from the edge, a second 

 series of short arches being interposed between these and the margin ; 

 length 5 to 8 in. ; breadth 175 to 25 in. ; petiole '35 to '5 in. Panicles 

 terminal, many-flowered, compact ; the branchlets numerous and few- 

 flowered. Flower-huds clavate, about '5 in, long just before expansion. 

 Flowers about "75 in. across, white, much tinged with red. Calyx-tube 

 funnel-shaped, -3 to '4 in. long, jointed to a stout pedicel shorter than 

 itself ; the 4 lobes, '15 in. long, unequal, broad, rounded. Petals much 

 larger than the calyx-lobes, sub -orbicular, much shorter than the 



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