Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 101 



VAR. concinna (sp. Wall.) ; leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate. 



Perak: King's Collector \0h2l, Distrib.— Burma, TfaZZic/i 3582. 



39. Eugenia conglomerata, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 497. A large tree ; yoang branches thinner than a goose-quill, ob- 

 scurely 4-angled, blackish-brown, smooth : the older terete, grey, striate. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate, sub-acute or blunt, much tapered to 

 the base : upper surface (when dry) blackish-brown, shining ; the 

 lower liver-coloured, somewhat dull, minutely black-dotted ; main- 

 nerves 18 to 20 pairs, spreading, curved, faint, more distinct on the 

 upper than on the under surface, the midrib stout on the lower surface, 

 the edges slightly recurved; length 3 to 4*5 in. ; breadth "8 to 1-75 in. ; 

 petiole '2 to '35 in. Inflorescences generally 2 or 3 together from small 

 tubercles on the naked branches below the leaves, consisting usually of 

 few-flowered capitula on short peduncles from '25 to '5 in. loug, or 

 of solitary flowers from the bases of the peduncles. Flowers small, 

 sub-globular or campanulate, only about •] or '15 in. long, sessile. 

 Calyx widely campanulate; the limb with 4 rounded lobes. Petals 

 4, free. Fruit pisiform, smooth, crowned by the 4 calyx-lobes and also 

 by the stamens, red, smooth. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 745. Singapore: (near the Botanic 

 Garden), Ridley 5073. 



40. Eugenia urceolata, King. A tree, 30 to 60 feet high : young 

 branches rather thinner than a goose-quill^ 4-angled, with pale brownish- 

 yellow, striate bark. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or 

 obovate- elliptic, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate ; upper 

 surface (when dry ) dark-brown, shining, pellucid-dotted ; the lower 

 warm-brown, with black dots: main-nerves 12 to 18 pairs, curving 

 upwards and interarching '1 in. or more from the edge ; length 5 to 7 

 in. ; breadth 2 to 3*25 in. ; petioles '25 in. long. Flowers from small 

 axillary tubercles, solitary, fasciculate or in small panicles, (often 

 several from one axil), much shorter than the leaves and with a few 

 (usually about 3) very short, slender, spreading, 4-angled branches 

 powdered with ferrugineous scurf. Flowers ahout '35 in. across (includ- 

 ing the stamens). Calyx an open, rotate cup on a short, thiu stalk, the 

 margin divided into 4 broad, sub-orbicular, blunt, spreading, concave 

 lobes. Petals 4, orbicular, free, spreading. Fruit turbinate, about -5 

 in. in diam., crowned by the short calyx-limb. Jambosa urceolata^ 

 Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. I, (1847), 202; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. 1, 418 (excluding all the synonyms). 



Perak : Wray 2423, 2609, 2928, 31.34, 3248 ; King's Collector 1908, 

 2317, 713, 3345, 4262, 6665, 6682, 6600, 10677, 10780. Selangor: 



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