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A tree, 40 to 60 feet high ; young branches terete (when dry), reddish- 

 brown. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, or broadly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces brown (when 

 dry), shining, the upper often tinged with olivaceous and the lower with 

 red, main-nerves 20 to 24 pairs, close, connected by numerous secondary 

 nerves and reticulations, indistinct on th^ upper but distinct on the lower 

 surface, intramarginal nerve very close to the slightly recurved margin; 

 length 3"5 to 5 in. ; hreadth 1 to 25 in. ; petiole '2 to '25 in. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, often pedunculate, corym- 

 bose, the branches and branchlets few, crowded, obtusely 4-angled. 

 Floivers 'b in. long, including the stamens, white, sessile, shortly clavate 

 in bud. Calyx '25 in. long, funnel-shaped, the mouth with 4 deciduous, 

 short, blunt lobes, narrowed to a pseudo-stalk. Petals orbicular, calyptrate. 

 Fruit as large as a cherry when ripe, smooth, pulpy, the pericarp rather 

 thick ; seed solitary. "Wight 111. II, 15 ; Ic. t. 622 ; Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. XLVI, Pt. 2, 67 ; For. Fl. I, 488 ; Duthie in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. II, 492. S. oblatum, Wall. Cat. 3569. S. pulchellum, 

 Wall. Cat. 3566 in part. Syzg. truncatum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 

 455. Jambosa pidchella, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 422. E. comosa, 

 Wall. Cat. 3566 D - I.e. 3600 (under E. inophylla). 



Malacca : Derry 1178. Perak : Scortechini. Province Wellesley : 

 Ciirtis 9378a. Penang : Bidley 9378. 



67. Eugenia Bernardi, King n. sp. A medium-sized tree ; young 

 branches thicker than a crow-quill, slightly compressed, dark-brown, 

 the older terete and grey. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly elliptic, 

 abruptly and shortly acuminate, the base slightly cuneate ; both 

 surfg;Ces brown (when dry) and shining, the lower slightly paler ; the 

 numerous close nerves and their connecting reticulations distinct on 

 both ; the intramarginal line less than '1 in. from the edge, the midrib 

 depressed on the upper, prominent on the lower surface ; length 35 to 

 4'5 in. ; breadth 1*75 to 225 in. ; petiole '25 to '4 in. Panicles terminal, 

 occasionally from the branches below the leaves, shorter than the leaves 

 when in flower but longer in fruit, densely corymbose, trichotomously 

 branched, many-flowered, the peduncle and lower branches terete, the 

 branchlets 4-angled. Flowers partly sessile and partly on very short 

 thick pedicels, the buds obovoid, obtuse. Calyx '15 in. long, campanu- 

 late-cylindric, tapering slightly to the base but not forming a pseudo- 

 stalk, smooth, the limb truncate. Petals falling off in a depressed 

 calyptra. Stamens '25 in. long. Fruit turbinate, black when ripe, 

 without pulp, crowned by the minute remains of the calyx, '2 in. in diam. 



Pekak : Scortechini 326. SfiLAftGOR : Bidley 8617. Penang : Curtis 

 975, 2845. 



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