1J6 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Remarkable for its short, obovoid flower-buds ; closely related to E. simulans 

 which has, however longer clavate buds. 



68. Eugenia Prainiana, King n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high ; 

 joung branches as thick as a goose-quill, terete, brown. Leaves thickly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, the apex shortly acuminate, the base 

 cuneate; upper surface dark-brown, shining, the midrib pale and 

 depressed, the nerves slightly raised, faint ; lower surface yellowish- 

 brown, dull, the 20 to 30 pairs of main nerves and the intramarginal 

 one slightly raised but indistinct, edges slightly recurved ; length 

 3*5 to 5 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 1'75 in. ; petiole about '5 in. Panicles 

 mostly terminal, but a few of smaller size from the upper leaf-axils, 

 about half as long as the leaves while in flower, many-flowered, much 

 condensed, corymbose, broader than long; the peduncles short, stout, 

 somewhat 4-angled like the stout, short branches. Flowers in threes 

 at the ends of the branchlets, sessile, white, clavate in bud. Calyx 

 '35 in. long, funnel-shaped, tapering gradually to the base : the mouth 

 5-lobed, the lobes broad, rounded, and with pale, cartilaginous tips. 

 Petals 5 orbicular, glandular-dotted, much longer than the calyx-lobes, 

 apparently calyptrate. Fndt (unripe and excluding the long calyx- 

 tube) globular-ovoid, '75 to 1 in. in length, and '75 in. in diam., 

 crowned by the large, stout, withered, 5-toothed calyx-limb '25 in. long. 



Perak : Wray 3990 ; King's Collector 6309, 6584. 



69. Eugenia Pearsoniana, King n. sp. A tree 80 to 100 feet 

 high ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, pale brown or whitish, 

 terete. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, the base rounded, the apex caudate- 

 acuminate, the edges somewhat recurved ; upper surface olivaceous- 

 brown, shining, the numerous nerves faint, the midrib depressed ; lower 

 surface brown, dull, the nerves fainter than on the upper, the midrib 

 sharp and prominent ; length 275 to 4 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2 in. ; petiole 

 •25 to "3 in. Panicles terminal, 1'5 in. long, not pedunculate, branching 

 from the base ; the branches short, thick, slightly compressed and 

 slightly 4-angled. Flowers in twos or threes at the ends of the branch - 

 lets, about '5 in. long (including the stamens), white, clavate in bud, 

 some sessile and others on very short, stout pedicels. Calyx '25 in. long, 

 funnel-shaped gradually tapering to the thick base ; the mouth truncate. 

 Petals 5, orbicular, calyptrate. Fruit unknown. 



Perak: King's Collector 3526. 



Allied to E. Prainiana, bat differing in the truncate calyx-limb, sessile panicles 

 and thinner young branches the bark of which moreover is neax'ly white. 



70. Eugenia l^vicaulis, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 492. 

 A tree ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, terete, very pale. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-cUiptic, shortly and 



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