Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 99 



for half its length into a minutely granular pseudo-stalk; the mouth 

 with 4 large, rounded lobes. Petals not calyptrate, three times as Innu- 

 as the calyx-lobes, ovate-rotund and like the latter reflexed in flower. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Singapore : (in the " garden jungle "), Bidley 3706, 6416, 6419, 

 6728, 6233. Penang: Curtis 3010. 



Notable for its green flowers. 



36. Eugenia ptrifolia, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 487. 

 A tree 20 to 40 feet high ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, 

 pale, terete (the very youngest 4-angled), brownish-white. Leaves 

 coriaceoQS, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, occasionally obovate- 

 elliptic, shortly and rather bluntly ctlspidate, or cordate-acuminate, the 

 base cuneate; upper surface (when dry) dark olivaceous-brown, shining, 

 the main and secondary nerves and also the midrib depressed, the 

 latter prominent, the former faint ; lower surface paler and duller than 

 the upper and the nerves and reticulations rather more prominent, the 

 midrib bold anil convex, the former faint; lower surface paler and 

 duller than the upper ; length 25 to 4 in. ; breadth 1 to 1*75 in. ; petiole 

 •25 to "35 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, shorter or longer than the 

 leaves, laxly branched, corymbose or pyramidal, many-flowered, the 

 branches spreading, slender, acutely 4-angled, bracteoles at the bases 

 of the branches and at the bases of the flowers minute, subulate, 

 deciduous. Flowers white, '4 in. long (including the calyx), clavate in 

 bud, sessile in groups of two, three or more at the ends of the branch- 

 lets ; calyx slightly over '2 in. in length, f nnnel-shaped, vertically 

 striate, the mouth with 4 broad, shallow, rounded teeth. Petals reni- 

 form-orbicular or orbicular, dotted outside, free. Fruit depressed- 

 globular, crowned by the narrow tubular remains of the calyx, not 

 pulpy, *75 in. in diam. when ripe. E. tumida, Duthie I.e. 487. Syzygium 

 pyrifolium, WaXl.Csit. 3584; DC. Prodr. Ill, 261 (Syzyg.) ; Korth. in 

 Ned. Kruidk. I, 204 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 457. Oalyptranthes 

 pyrifolia, Blame Bijdr. 1099. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands : 

 common. 



37. Eugenia lineata, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 487. 

 A tree 30 to 60 feet high ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, 

 terete, their bark pale-brown. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate 

 or narrowly elliptic, rather abruptly and shortly acuminate, the base 

 cuneate; upper surface (when dry) olivaceous-brown, shining, some- 

 times minutely pitted ; the nerves numerous, indistinct, the midrib 

 depressed ; lower pale-brown, not olivaceous, the main-nerves more 

 distinct than on the upper, close together, the neighbouring ones 



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