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Perak : Wray 2623, 2797, 3204 ; King's Gollector 73C6. Distrib.— 

 Sumatra, Forbes 2046. 



Named from the resemblance of its leaves to those of Ficus Benjamina, Linu. 

 The Perak specimens have no ripe friiit on them and the description of it above 

 given is taken from Forbes's Sumatra specimens which agree in leaf absolutely with 

 those collected in Perak. 



51. Eugenia variolosa. King n. sp. A glabrous shrub, 12 to 20 

 feet high : young branches slender, 4-angled, pale-brown, pix)fusely 

 dotted, like the leaves on both surfaces and the flowers, with large 

 pellucid glands. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, rarely 

 elliptic-oblong, caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces 

 when dry p ale- brown ; main-nerves 12 to 15 pairs slightly prominent 

 on the lower surface (when dry), ascending, rather straight, interarching 

 "1 to '15 in. from the margin, secondary nerves and reticulations indis- 

 tinct : length 5-5 to 7 in. ; breadth 1'35 to 25 in. ; petiole '2 to -3 in. 

 Racemes axillary and terminal, crowded, only about 1 in. long. Flowers 

 white, '4 in. across, on stent pedicels less than "l in. long. Calyx-tuhe 

 narrowly campanulate, '2 in. long, the mouth with two very unequal 

 pairs of rounded teeth. Petals orbicular, thick in the centre, much 

 shorter than the stamens. Style about '5 in. long. Fruit globular: 

 smooth, prominently glandular-dotted, crowned by the short calyx, 8 in. 

 in diam, 



Perak: ScortecUni; King's Collector 3415, 3995, 6036, 10437, 

 Singapore: Bi'^iZe?/ 8411, 8449. Selangor: Ridley 4973. 



Distingaished by having prominent pustule-like glands on all its parts. 



52. Eugenia claviflora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37 ; Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 488. A glabrous tree, 25 to 30 feet high : young branches slender, pale- 

 brown, compressed. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base acute ; main and secondary nerves 

 very numerous, curving upwards and interarching less than *! in. from 

 the edge : length 4 to 6 in, ; breadth 1*5 to 2 in. ; petiole "1 to '15 in. 

 Flowers '6 to "8 in. long, in very shortly stalked, condensed, axillary 

 corymbs, sessile ; the calyx-tube narrowly cylindric-clavate, contracted 

 at the base into a slender pseudo-stalk ; the mouth with 4 or 5 short, 

 broad lobes. Petals 4 or 5, free, white, orbicular-ovate, about '25 in. 

 long ; filaments about '6 in. long. Fruit narrowly oblong-ovoid, about 

 •8 in. long, smooth, pulpy, crowned by the short, incurved calyx-limb, 

 1-seeded. Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 484 ; Wight 111., II, 15 ; 

 let. 606; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVF, Pt. 2. 65; For. 

 Fl. I, 480. Syzygium clavijiorum, Wall. Cat. 3575. S. longiflorum, Wall. 

 Cat. 3572. S. excavatum, Wall. Cat. 3574. Wall. Cat. hideterminata 

 8085. 



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