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rngnlose and not glandular. This also vesemXAeB Eugenia sylvestris {CaryoTpliylhis 

 sylvestris, Blame) almost exactly in leaves : but the fruit of the latter is very 

 different. 



64. Eugenia nigricans, King n. sp. A large tree ; you-ng branches 

 rather thicker than a crow-quill, sub-terete, dark-brown when dry. 

 Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the 

 base more or less cuneate; both surfaces very dark-olivaceous and 

 dull (when dry), the lower with a reddish tinge: nerves very numerous 

 and close together, straight and sub-horizontal, all faint below and 

 distinct above, the reticulations few and fainfc on both surfaces, the 

 edge recurved, and the intramarginal line very near it ; length 2*5 to 

 4 in. ; breadth 1*4 to 2 in. ; petiole '3 to *4 in. Panicles axillary and 

 terminal, not more than half as long as the leaves with few lax tricho- 

 tomous spreading branchlets, all 4-angled. Floivers white, '3 in. long 

 (including the stamens), in threes, sessile, clavate in bud. Calyx 

 •15 in. long, wrinkled, funnel-shaped, narrowed for half its length into 

 a pseudo- stalk, the mouth wide and truncate. Petals deciduous. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Perak : Wray 2221. 



65. Eugenia inophylla, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37 : Fl. Ind. II, 496. 

 A glabrous tree, 40 to 60 feet high ; young branches rather thinner than 

 a goose-quill, terete, dark-brown. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, rather abruptly acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 both surfaces when dry smooth, shinifig, the numerous thin, curved, 

 ascending main-nerves indistinct ; the upper surface almost black, the 

 lower deep-brown ; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth 1*25 to 2*25 in. ; petiole 

 •2 to '4 in. Panicles corymbose, in the upper leaf-axils and terminal, 

 nearly as long as or longer than the leaves, on rather long peduncles, 

 many-flowered, each from 2'5 to 3 in. across, the branches and branchlets 

 numerous, 4-angled. Flowers 2 or 3 together, sessile at the apices of 

 the branches, '4 in. long (including the coloured stamens) white, clavate 

 in bud. Calyx funnel-shaped, rather abruptly tapered to the base, '2 in. 

 long, smooth ; the mouth truncate, with 5 very obscure, short, broad 

 teeth. Petals calyptrate. Fruit (according to Roxburgh) pear-shaped, 

 large. Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 481 in part. Wight Ic. 623 

 {had). Jar)ihosa inophylla^ Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Ft. 1, 433. Syzygium 

 inophyllum, Wall. Cat. 3600 in part; DC. Prodr. Ill, 260. 



Perak: TTrai/ 1377, 2554, 2655, 2734; King's Collector 4^74^1, 6079, 

 655, 8481. Penang: Curtis 973, 974, 2621. 



Two specimens of this are included in the Linnaean Society's set of the 

 Wallichian plants under 3600. The other two sheets belong to two different species. 



66. Eugenia oblata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37 ; Fl. Ind. II, 493. 

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