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Panicles small, racemose, in clusters of 6 to 8 at the apices of the 

 branches, few-flowered, unequal in length but all shorter than the leaves 

 and on more or less long, compressed, dark-coloured peduncles ; the 

 branches few, unequal in length but all under an inch, compressed ; 

 flowers in threes, sessile at the apices of the branchlets, the buds 

 clavate. Calyx campanulate, '25 in. long, constricted for more than 

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

 rounded lobes. Petals 4, orbicular not calyptrate. Fruit (unripe) 

 globular-ovoid, slightly corrugated, crowned by the small circular 

 remains of the calyx. 



Malacca; Griffith (K.D.) 2375. Perak: Wray 2713; King's 

 Collector 6192. Singapore : Ridley 4980, 4981, 7951. 



24. Eugenia Clarkeana, King, n. sp. A tree 30 to 50 feet high ; 

 young branches as stout as a quill, terete, compressed near tlie nodes, 

 brown. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, very shortly acumin- 

 ate, gradually narrowed from about or below the middle to the acute 

 base ; upper surface dark-brown, shining, not reticulate, the nerves 

 faintly impressed ; lower liver-coloured, rather dull, with numerous small 

 pustules, the 12 to 16 pairs of curved main-nerves slightly prominent, 

 the intramarginal nerves about "1 in. distant from the slightly recurved 

 edge, reticulations invisible ; length 4*5 to 8 in. ; breadth 175 to 3 in. ; 

 petiole 3 to *35 in. Panicles mostly terminal, shorter than the leaves, 

 pyrainidal, with many 4-angled, often compressed branches. Flowers 

 sessile, in densely crowded capitules at the apices of the branchlets, 

 about '35 in. across when expanded, white. Petals 4i or 5, free, broadly 

 oblong, not calyptrate. Calyx widely campanulate, nearly 2 in. long, 

 constricted at the base, rugulose ; its mouth with 4 broad, shallow, blunt 

 lobes. Fruit globular and 1-seeded or depressed- reniform and 2-seeded, 

 vertically corrugated when young, rugulose when ripe, shining, black, 

 crowned by the small circular remains of the calyx ; the globular form 

 •75 in. or more in diam., the reniform form about 1 in. long and 1*35 in. 

 broad ; pulp none. 



Perak : Scortechini 205 ; King's Collector 3349, 3491, 3573, 6822, 

 7811. 



Allied to E. Griffi^thii, Dathie, bat with a single large terminal panicle instead 

 of a number of small ones and with smaller flowers. 



25. Eugenia corrogata. King n. sp. A tree, 30 to 60 feet high ; 

 young branches terete but compressed at the apices thinner than a 

 goose-quill, brown. Leaves as in F. Clarkeana, but the main-nerves 

 not depressed on the upper surface. Panicles terminal, short and few- 

 branched ; the branches terete. Flowers not seen. Fruit globulai-, 

 much corrugated and vertically ridged, especially towards the base and 



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