9-^ Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



apex, depressed-globose, the rind '25 in. thick, when fully ripe, greenish- 

 yellow, and 2 to 3 in. in diam. 



Perak: King's Collector 5298, 6987. 



26. Eugenia pendens, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 475. 

 A small tree with pendent branches : young branches compressed, 

 slender, brown. Leaves thinly coriaceous, pellucidly dotted, narrowly 

 oblong-elliptic or elliptic, occasionally somewhat oblanceolate, the apex 

 shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces 

 olivaceous when dry : main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, slender, ascending, 

 slightly curved, interarcliing "2 in. from the margin, secondary nerves 

 and reticulations indistinct ; length 5 to 7 in. ; breadth 14 to 3 in. ; 

 petiole '3 to *35 in. Pa7iicles terminal, about 2 in. in diam., condensed, 

 the branchlets about 5-flowered. Flower-huds globose-clavate, '5 in. 

 long just before expansion. Flowers when expanded nearly *5 in. 

 across. Calyx-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, jointed to a pedicel shorter 

 than itself : lobes short, rounded, subequal, reflexed. Petals orbicular, 

 longer than the calyx-lobes. Stamens '75 in. long. Fruit depressed- 

 globular, green flushed with red, smooth, crowned by the short reflexed 

 calyx -lobes, 1 in. in diam. 



Malacca : Griffith 2349 ; Maingay 747 ; Hervey. JoHORE : Ridley 

 4200. Singapore : Ridley 8048, 8447. Perak : Scortechini 1809, 2021 ; 

 Wray 3537. Penang : Ridley 10242. Distrib.— Sumatra, Forbes 1377. 



A species allied to E. densiflora, Duthie, but with leaves of thinner texture, 

 with fewer nerves and no dots. The panicles are also much shorter, fewer-flowered, 

 and the flowers are smaller. " 



27. Eugenia Burkilliana, King n. sp. A tree, 40 to 60 feet high : 

 young branches thinner than a goose-quill, brown. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate; both surfaces 

 (when dry) shining, pale brownish-green, the upper pitted, the lower 

 with black dots, the edges slightly recurved ; main-nerves 10 to 14 

 pairs, ascending and forming wide arches '1 to "15 in. from the edge, 

 between which and the actual edge is a second iutramarginal nerve, 

 the secondary nerves and connecting reticulations almost as prominent, 

 all thin and equally visible on both surfaces, all raised : length 225 

 to 3*5 in. ; breadth *9 to 1*25 in. ; petiole "35 to '5 in. Panicles terminal, 

 sessile, many-flowered, broader than long, much branched, their tops 

 broadly pyramidal, usually somewhat shorter than the leaves : branches 

 thick, striate, 4-angled, slightly compressed. Flowers '1 in. long includ- 

 ing the stamens, reddish before expansion, afterwards white, sessile, in 

 threes at the ends of the branchlets, clavate in bud. Calyx *35 to 4 in. 

 long, striate, funnel-shaped, its lower half gradually narrowed into a 



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