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pseudo-stalk : the mouth with 4 broad, rounded, shallow lobes. Petals 

 orbicular, not calyptrate. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Wray 2785, 3070; King's Collector 4719, 6186. 



A species near E, oUongifolia, Dnthie, but differing in its leaves, which are of 

 the same colour on each surface and have more distinct nerves and reticulations 

 equally visible on both surfaces. The mouth of the calyx too is different, being 

 deeply 4-lobed. 



• 28. Eugenia Helferi, Duthie in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 480. 

 A considerable tree : young branches indistincfcly 4-angled, as thick as 

 a crow-quill, with pale-brown deciduous bark. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 

 tapered to each end, the apex obtusely and shortly acuminate, the base 

 cuneate ; both surfaces finely reticulate, pale olivaceous-green, the 

 upper the darker : main-nerves about 12 pairs, faint, interarching close 

 to the edge : the secondary nerves very faint ; length 2*5 to 3'25 in. ; 

 breadth 1 to 1*25 in. ; petiole '2 in. Panicles terminal, solitary, spread- 

 ing, about half as long or sometimes quite as long as the leaves, the 

 branchlets spreading, their bark exfoliating. Flowers in threes at the 

 ends of the branchlets, about '5 in. across ; buds clavate. Galyx-tuhe 

 funnel-shaped, '2 in. long, attenuated at the base to a pedicel "2 in. long, 

 the 4 lobes of the mouth unequal, short, broad, rounded. Petals broadly 

 orbicular, much longer than the calyx-lobes and half as long as the 

 stamens, bearing large pellucid glands on the exterior like the calyx- 

 tube. Fruit unknown. 



Penang: Gurtis 212. Singapore: Lohh, Prrak: King's Collector 

 4181. DiSTRiB. — Burma (Tenasserim) Heifer 2418. 



Closely allied to E. rainosissima, Wall., but with smaller flowers. 



29. Eugenia Kurzii, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 478. 

 var. andamanica. King. A tree : young branches as thick as a crow- 

 quill, terete, the bark very pale. Leaves thickly membranous, oblong- 

 elliptic, the base cuneate, the apex shortly caudate-acuminate ; upper 

 surface pale-olivaceous brown when dry, shining, remotely pitted, the 

 main-nerves faint : lower surface paler brown, not olivaceous, the 10 or 

 12 pairs of main-nerves rather bold, arching upwards and interarching 

 •15 to -2 in. from the edge ; length 4*5 to 6 in. ; breadth 185 to 2*25 in. ; 

 petioles '3 to "4 in. Panicles from the axils of the upper leaves, or 

 terminal, shorter than the leaves, often broader than long, spread- 

 ing, many-flowered; the branches 4-angled, pale. Flowers mostly in 

 threes at the ends of the branchlets, -6 in. long (including the stamens). 

 Calyx '15 in, long ; widely campanulate, narrowed into a thick pseudo- 

 stalk as long as itself ; the mouth wide, with 4 broad, rounded, reflexed 

 teeth. Petals 4, free, sub-orbicular, reflexed. Stamens four times as 

 long as the calyx. Fruit unknown. 



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