92 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Pt. 1, 418 in part. Syzygium grande, Walp. Repert. II, 180; not of 

 Wall. Cat. 3554. S. firmum, Thwaites Enum. 417. S- montanum, 

 Thwaites l.c, 116. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2368, 2369, 2370, 2371; Maingay 730, 

 723. Singapore : Ridley 4633 ; Rullet. Langkawi : Curtis. Penang : 

 Curtis 7515. DiSTRiB. — British India in Burma, Cliittagong, Sylhet and 

 Assam. 



A species easily recognised by its thick glossy reticulate leaves, large (mostly) 

 terminal panicles with large flower-buds and ovoid-cylindric smooth fruit crowned 

 by the cup-shaped calyx-lobes. 



Included under this both by Duthie in the Flora of British India and by Trimen 

 in his Flora of Ceylon, is a Ceylon plant (Thwaites C.P. 2694 which he named 

 8, insigne). This plant has quite the leaves of E. grandis, but the flower buds are 

 much larger and if flowers and fruit were available it would probably turn out to be 

 specifically distinct. E. grandis, Wight, is allied closely to E. lepidocarpa, Wall. 



22. Eugenia Thumra, Roxb. var. penangiana, King. A medium- 

 sized tree ; young branches somewhat thinner tlian a goose-quill ; the 

 bark rough, brown. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceo- 

 late, sub-acute or bluntly and very shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 both surfaces dull ; the upper dark leaden-brown, the nerves and midrib 

 impressed ; lower surface dark-brown, the nerves and midrib promi- 

 nent ; main-nerves 15 to 20 pairs, curving upwards, interarching *! in. 

 from the edge ; length 4 to 5 in. ; breadth 1*8 to 2 in. ; petiole '3 to "5 

 in. Panicles nearly as long as the leaves, terminal and axillary, pedun- 

 culate, lax ; the branches numerous, spreading, 4-angled like the pedun- 

 cle, the smaller compressed. Flowers '35 in. long (including the 

 stamens), sessile, white, crowded, 5 or 10 together at the apices of the 

 ultimate branchlets, clavate in bud. Calyx f iinuel-sliaped, narrowed for 

 half its length into a ribbed pseudo-stalk, the mouth with 4 broad, 

 suborbicular lobes. Fruit unknown. 



Penang : Curtis 2410. 



This differs from the typical E. Thumra, Roxb., in having narrower leaves with 

 fewer nerves and rather shorter panicles the branches of which are more acutely 

 4-angled. Fruit of this is unknown : when found it may yield characters warrant- 

 ing the separation of this as a distinct species. 



23. Eugenia Griffithii, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 481. 

 A tree, 50 to 80 feet high ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, 

 their bark brown and rather rough. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or 

 narrowly elliptic, narrowed about equally at base and apex, both 

 surfaces dark-brown when dry, shining ; main-nerves 15 to 20 pairs, 

 spreading, rather straight, interarching "1 in. from the edge, depressed 

 oil the upper and prominent on the lower surface, reticulations small, 

 indistinct; length 4*5 to 6 in.; breadth 2 to 2 5 in. ; petiole '2 to '3 in. 



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