Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. Hi 



PenanG: Porter ; Curtis 511. JOHORE : Ridley 4078. Perak : Scor- 

 techini 585; Wray 2822; King's Collector 6930, 8679. Malacca: 

 Ridley 859. 



A species superficially resembling E. zeylanica, Wight, but really differing greatly 

 from that and every other species within our region by its prominently bracteate 

 and very condensed inflorescence which has winged branchlets. The fruit has been 

 only twice collected. 



58. EuGEiNiA VALDEVENOSA, Dutliie in Hook. fil. n. Bi\ Ind. II, 

 489. A glabrous tree, 20 to 50 feet high : young branches rather 

 thinner than a goose-quill when dry, acutely 4-angled but not winged, 

 the bark brown. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, shortly and abruptly acu- 

 minate, the base cuneate or roauded ; upper surface olivaceous-brown, 

 reticulate, the nerves faint ; lower warm-brown, the main- nerves 14 to 

 24 pairs, very prominent, curving upwards and interarching in a wavy 

 line '15 to '25 in. from the edge ; length 5*5 to 8 in. ; breadth 2-35 to 

 3"5 in. ; petiole '2 to "25 in. Panicles terminal or from the upper leaf- 

 axils, pedunculate, rather shorter than the leaves, with many spreading, 

 lax branches, the branchlets compressed. Flowers white, sessile, in 

 heads on the ends of the branchlets, '4 in. long (including the stamens), 

 the buds narrowly clavate. Calyx narrowly inf andibaliform, tapering 

 equally from base to apex, the mouth truncate, entire. Petals calyptrate. 

 Fruit depressed-globular, crowned by the short remains of the calyx- 

 tube, smooth, '75 in. in diam. L. ellipticum, Wall. Cat. 3587, in part, 

 (not of other authors). 



PicNANG : Wallich ; Curtis 55; King's Collector 1579; Maingny 

 723, 762. Perak : Scortechini 1662 ; Wray 2209, 2842 ; King's Collector 

 737, 2737, 4947, 5122, 5322, 7003, 10246, 10873. 



Under the pre-occnpied name L. ellipticum, Wallich issued this species as No. 3587 

 of his Catalogue. Mixed with it, however, he issued some leaves of a distinct species 

 from Penang. Good specimens, with leaves exactly agreeing with these, have since 

 been found and that plant has been named E. pergamacea, King. 



59. Eugenia oblongifolia, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 491. A tree; young branches somewhat thicker than a crow-quill, 

 very pale, 4-angled (sometimes obscurely so). Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic or oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; botli 

 surfaces shining, the nerves and reticulations distinct ; upper surface 

 pale-olivaceous, the lower pale-brown; main-nerves 10 to 16, slender, 

 whitish, not much more prominent than the secondary, intetarching 

 less than "I in. from the edge ; length 3 to 4'5 in. ; breadth 1*25 to 2 in. ; 

 petiole -3 in. long. Panicles terminal, corymbose, spreading, many- * 

 flowered, 3 or 4 inches in length and as many in breadth ; the short 

 peduncle and nurneroiis branches stout, 4-angled, the bratichlets 



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