108 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



NicoBAR and Andaman Islands ; common. Distrib. — British India 

 in Burma, Cliittagong and Assam. 



VAR. leptantha ; flowers and fruit smaller than in the typical form : 

 flowers in short racemes, not in corymbs : fruit '4 in. long. Duthie in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 11, 484 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. Ill, 283 {Syz.) ; Kurz 

 in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI, Pt. 2, 65 ; For. Fl. I, 480. 8. suavissi- 

 mum, Wall. Cat. 3573. Syzyg. Griff. Notul. 65L 

 ' Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2366/ i, 23Q7. Penang : Ridley 10-21, 1109. 



VAR. excavata ; leaves more coriaceous than in the typical form 

 and somewhat larger, young branches with rather rough bark. Syzy- 

 giuni excavatum, Wall. Cat. 3574. 



Penang: Ctuiis 697,749, 8384, 8393. Pkov. Wellesley : Ridley 

 6970. Perak : King*s Collector 7440. Johore : Ridley 4076. 



VAR. Maiugayi; young branches rather stout, the very youngest 

 smooth, the older with deeply striate bark. Leaves thickly coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, main-nerves not prominent, the 

 midrib very prominent on the lower surface : length 4'5 to 7*5 in. 

 Floivers about '5 in. long : fruit unknown. E. Maingayi, Duthie in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 484. 



Malacca : Maingayi (K.D.) 750. 



This is known only from Maingay'a imperfect specimens. It does not appear to 

 me to be separable specifically from E. claviflora, Roxb. 



VAR, glandulosa ; young branches acutely 4-angled : leaves as in 

 VAR. Maingayi : calyx-tube with large peliucid glands. 



Malacca : Mount Ophir ; only once collected. 



53. Eugenia zeylanica, Wight III. II, 15 : Ic. I, 73. A glabrous 

 tree, 30 to 60 feet high : young branches slender, obsoletely 4-angled or 

 terete, pale-brown. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, sometimes ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, the base acute : both surfaces shining, 

 brown when dry, the lower minutely glandular and paler : nerves 10 or 

 12 pairs, indistinct, interarching near the edge, the reticulations 

 obsolete ; length 1'5 to 35 in. ; breadth "35 to 1*5 in. ; petiole '05 to "15 

 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, crowded, the axillary shorter than 

 the leaves, the terminal longer ; branchlets short, 4-angled like the 

 main-rachis. Flowers numerous, in twos or threes at the apices of the 

 ultimate branchlets, their length (including the stamens) "35 to '4 in. 

 Calyx funnel-shaped, 2 in. long, sessile or on a short pedicel; the tube 

 ribbed, granular- tubercled ; the limb with 4 or 5 ovate-rotund, concave, 

 erect, deciduous lobes. Petals orbicular, 4 or 5, deciduous as a calyptra. 

 Fruit pisiform, smooth, white. Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 485. 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI, Pt. 2, 65; For. Fl. I, 481. 

 E.spicata, Lam. Diet. Ill, 201 , DC. I.e. {Syz.). Trimen Fl. Ceylon I, 171. 



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