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Leaves large, rigidly coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, slightly narrowed at the base ; both surfaces, but 

 especially the upper, dark when dry, the upper shining with the nerves 

 impressed, the lower somewhat paler, dull and the nerves prominent ; 

 main-nerves 20 to 26 pairs, slightly curved upwards and interarching 

 •1 to '2 in. from the edge : length 6 to 9 in. ; breadth 3 to 35 in. ; petiole 

 •3 to '35 in. stout. Panicles mostly on long 4-angled striate peduncles, 

 terminal, shorter than the leaves, crowded in groups of 6 to 8 at the 

 apices of the twigs ; branches few, a long one often from the very base, 

 the remaining short (mostly under one inch), all compressed, and each 

 bearing at its apex a dense capitule of sessile flowers "3 or '4 in. across. 

 Calyx -15 in. long, campanulate, contracted and ribbed at the base but 

 not forming a pseudo-stalk ; the mouth with 4 broad, rounded, concave 

 teeth, i^rm^ (unripe) globular with numerous bold vertical ribs, the 

 apex crowned by the calyx-lobes. 



Perak: Wray 1803; King's Collector 6114, 8697. 



The species nearest to this is E. pergamentacea which however has larger leaves, 

 fewer panicles and considerably larger flowers. 



17. Eugenia pachyphylla, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLII, 

 Pt. 2, 332. A glabrous tree : the young branches slender, terete, pale- 

 yellow when dry. Leaves coriaceous, obovate to obovate-oblong, the apex 

 abruptly and broadly apiculate, the base cuneate ; upper surface oliva- 

 ceous-brown when dry, the lower pale-brown: main-nerves 12 to 15 

 pairs, slender but distinct on the lower surface, spreading, slightly 

 curved and interarching about '1 in. from the margin, length 35 to 5 

 in. ; breadth 2 to 2*25 in.; petiole '2 to '3 in. Flowers S in. in diam. 

 in pedunculate few-flowered corymbose racemes or panicles axillary or 

 clustered at the apices of the branches, the common peduncles 1 to 1*5 

 in. long, those of the branchlets (in the panicles) half as long, all 

 4-angled, the flowers themselves sessile at the apices, the buds globose- 

 clavate. Calyx in the expanded flower '4 in. long, widely funnel- 

 shaped, suddenly contracted into a cylindric tube, the 4 lobes of the 

 mouth about "2 in. long, broad, rounded. Petals sub-orbicular, laro-er 

 than the calyx-lobes. Stamens '4i in. long. Fruit unknown. Kurz For. 

 Fl. Br. Burma I, 490 ; Dutl.ie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 477. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2371/1 : Maingay (K.D.) 742. Uistrib.— 

 Burma, Brandis 1337. 



A species poorly represented at Kew and Calcutta: recognised by its obovate 

 leaves, pale yellow branches, and few-flowered, pedunculate, corymbose racemes or 

 panicles. 



18. Eugenia lepfdocarpa. Wall. Cat. 3618. A glabrous tree, 40 

 to 50 feet high: young branches greyish, terete, ieares coriaceous, 



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