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Petals small, orbicular, deciduous. Fruit when unripe pyriform, when 

 ripe globular, crowned by the wide calyx-limb, '5 in. long. 

 Peeak : King's Collector 5982, 6090. 



A species near H. Griffi^thii, and also near E. ClarTceana and E. Koordersiana, 

 but with much smaller panicles and fruit at first pyriform. 



62. Eugenia expansa, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 491. 

 A tree, 20 to 50 feet high ; young branches thinner than a goose- quill, 

 terete, pale-brown. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong- 

 elliptic, acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces brown (when dry) 

 and shining, the lower paler ; main-nerves 20 to 24 pairs, faint, spread- 

 ing, connected by numerous loops, not very prominent in either surface 

 but distinctest on the lower, intramarginal line less than *1 in. from the 

 edges : length 4 to G'6 in. ; breadth 1 to 2*25 in. ; petiole "15 to '2 in. 

 Panicles numerous, terminal and axillary, usually 2 or 3 together, 

 varying in length from less than one inch to several inches, the longer 

 ones bearing a few slightly compressed branches with 5 to 8 sessile 

 flowers crowded at their apices. Floivers (including the stamens) '3 in. 

 long (sometimes longer), clavate in bud. Calyx '15 in. long, infundi- 

 buliform, minutely rugulose ; the mouth truncate, undulate, slightly 

 reflexed. Petals orbicular, calyptrate. Fruit unknown. Syzygium ex- 

 pansum, Wall. Cat. 3567. S. euneuron, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 314. 



Penang : Wallich 3567 ; Curtis 247. Perak : Wray, Scortechim\ 

 King's Collector ; very common. 



63. Eugenia chloroleuca, King. A small tree or shrub; young 

 branches almost as thin as a crow-quill, terete below but 4-angled near 

 the apex, yellowish. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate, much narrowed at the base ; both surfaces pale-olivaceous ; 

 the upper tinged with brown, shining, the main-nerves indistinct or 

 invisible ; the lower very pale, dull, the 12 to 16 main-nerves spreading, 

 very faint, the edge thickened and slightly recurved ; length 3 to 55 in. ; 

 breadth 1 to 2'25 in. ; petiole '3 to "35 in. Panicles much shorter than 

 the leaves, mostly terminal, rarely axillary, trichotomous, the branchlets 

 also trichotomous, all acutely 4-angled and striate, the bracteoles at the 

 nodes and at the bases of the flowers short, concave, ovate. Flowers 

 bibracteolate at the base, in threes, "4 in. long (including the stamens) 

 on 4-angled pedicels *! in. long. Calyx '15 in. long, minutely rugulose ; 

 the mouth with 4 broad, shallow teeth. Fruit ellipsoid, rugulose, 

 crowned by the 4 persistent calyx-teeth, length (unripe) '3 in. 



Perak: King's Collector 1901, 4951, 7307; Scortechini 45; Wray 

 2917. 



This closely resembles Eugenia fastigiata {Calyptranthes fastiginta, Blume), but 

 the leaves have shorter petioles and fewer nerves and the fruit of this is corru<»'\ted 



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