104 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



8 to 10 pairs, spreading, slightly curved upwards at the ends and inter- 

 arcliing less than *! in. from the edge, slightly prominent on the lower 

 surface : length 3 to 45 in. ; breadth 1 to I'D in. ; petiole '2 to '3 in. 

 Panicles numerous, from the young branches below the leaves, or rarely 

 axillary, 1 to 15 in. long; the rachis and short divaricate branches 

 slender, compressed, 4-angled. Flowers at the ends of the branchlets, 

 usually in threes, white, sessile. Petals 4, orbicular, free. Calyx a 

 little more than '1 in. long, campanulate, constricted for one-third of 

 its length into a pseudo-stalk, rugulose, shining : the mouth with 4 deep, 

 rounded lobes. Fruit much depressed-globular if one-seeded, broader 

 than long if two-seeded, always much depressed and crowned by the 

 circular remains of the calyx, black, hard, without pulp, "15 in. long and 

 of the same width if globular, and more than twice as broad if 

 2-seeded. Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 496. E. nitida, Duthie 

 I.e. F. Incidula, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. J, 444. ? Myrtus cymosa^ Bl. 

 Bijdr. 1086. 



In all the provinces, except the N'icobars and Andamans : common. 

 DiSTRiB. — Malay Archipelago, Burma. 



45. Eugenia Manii, King n. sp. A tree, 20 to 30 feet high : young 

 branches about as thick as a crow-quill, pale-brown, terete. Leaves 

 membranous, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base 

 cuneate ; both surfaces brown when dry, the lower much paler than the 

 upper and with numerous small black dots ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, 

 curved, ascending, interarching '1 to '15 in. from the edge; reticula- 

 tions large, indistinct on the lower and invisible on the upper surface ; 

 length 3"5 to 4 5 in. ; breadth 15 to 2 in. ; petiole '2 to '4 in. Panicles 

 mostly shorter than the leaves, crowded, from the axils of leaves and of 

 fallen leaves, usually shorter than the leaves, the branches few and 

 slender (one often from the very base), compressed. Flowers clustered 

 at the apices of the filiform branchlets, often numerous and crowded, 

 sometimes few, whitish-red in colour, globular in bud. Calyx "15 in. 

 long, campanulate, abruptly contracted into a short pseudo-stalk ; the 

 mouth with 4 deep, ovate-rotund lobes. Petals 4, rotund, slightly longer 

 than the calyx-lobes, free, not calyptrate. Fruit depressed-globular, 

 minutely rugulose, crowned by the small circular remains of the calyx, 

 4 in. broad and slightly less from base to apex. 



Andaman Islands : King's Collectors. 



Named in honour of Mr. E. H. Man, C.I.E., Deputy Commissioner of the 

 Andamans, who has for years given most cordial help in the botanical exploration of 

 the Andaman and Nicobar groups. A species related to E. polyantha, Wight, but 

 with larger fewer-nerved leaves, and rather longer flowers and f i uit. Also near 

 E. operctdata, Roxb, 



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