106 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



48. Eugenia andamanica, Kingf n. sp. A small glabrous tree : 

 young brandies slender, with greyish-brown rather rougli bark. Leaves 

 coriaceous, rotund-ovate to rotund, with a very short abrupt blunt 

 apiculus, obscurely crenate uear the apex, abruptly tapered to the base ; 

 nerves numerous invisible on the upper shining surface and faint on 

 the dull lower surface, curving upward, interarching close to the margin ; 

 length 15 to 2*5 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole '3 or '4 in. Panicles often 

 as long as the leaves, crowded, pedunculate, axillary and terminal, the 

 branchlets usually trichotomous, 4-aMgled, beating 3 or 4 sessile flowers 

 at their apices. Flowers about "5 in. long, clavate, the calyx contracted 

 into a pseudo-stalk more than half of its length, the mouth with 4 erect, 

 equal, triangular, acute teeth. Petals 4, orbicular, calyptrate. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Andaman Islands : King's Collector. 



49. Eugenia Hoseana, King n. sp. A glabrous tree, 30 to 40 feet high : 

 young branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale greyish -yellow, terete, 

 the very youngest quadrangular. leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic- 

 oblong, abruptly and shortly caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 up^er surface dark-brown lenden and shining when dry, the lower pale- 

 brown and dull ; main-nerves 15 to 20 pairs ascending very little, 

 almost straight, interarching 'l in. from the edge ; length 4-5 to 7 in. j 

 breadth 1"75 to 2 5 in. ; petiole '15 to '3 in. Racemes axillary and 

 terminal, solitary, not moi^ than 1 in. long, the i-achis with 2 deep 

 grooves. Flowers white, '35 in. long, exclusive of the stamens, sessile, 

 enveloped in several sub-ovate leathery bracts as long as themselves. 

 Calyx-tuhe widely campanulate, contracted slightly at the base but not 

 into a pseudo-stalk ; its texture very leathery ; its mouth with 4 blunt, 

 obtuse lobes. Petals orbicular. Frtcit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini 163 ; Wray 2952 ; King's Collector 3407. 



50. Eugenia Benjamina, King n. sp. A glabrous shrub or small 

 tree : young branches thin, terete, pale-brown. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 conspicuously pellucid-dotted on both surfaces, narrowly elliptic, some- 

 times oblanceolate-elliptic, with an abrupt, narrow, short apiculus half 

 an inch or more in length, the base cuneate : both surfaces pale yellowish- 

 or greenish-brown when dry ; the nerves very numerous, distinct like 

 the reticulations, inferarching near the margin ; length 2*5 to 3 in. ; 

 breadth 1 to 1*5 in. ; petiole '15 in. slender. Racemes axillary or termi- 

 nal, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered. Flowers "5 to '6 in. long, 

 (including the stamens), sessile on short stout pedicels. Calyx clavate, 

 the mouth with 4 broad, blunt lobes. Petals orbicular,, with thin edges. 

 Fruit when young covered with large convex pellucid glands, crowned! 

 by the deeply 4-lobed calyx-limb ; when ripe depressed-globular, tbo 

 calyx-limb reduced to a ring, 1 in. long and 1 to 1'4 in. broad. 



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