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abruptly acaminate, the base cuneate ; upper surface dark-olivaceoas 

 (wlieu dry) and shining, the midrib bold and depressed and the nerves 

 not depressed but faiut; lower surface chocolate-brown, dull, the numer- 

 ous nerves and reticulations indistinct, the intramarginal line very 

 close to the edge, faint; length 3*5 to 45 iu. ; breadth 1 to IG in. ; 

 petioles "2 to '3 in. Panicles mostly terminal, but a few in the upper 

 axils, condensed, much shorter than the leaves ; branches few, crowded, 

 very stout, obscurely 4-angled, shining. Flowers '5 or -6 in. long 

 (including the stamens), in threes at the apices of the branchlets, the 

 middle one on a short thick pedicel, the lateral pair sessile. Calyx 

 •25 in. long, campanulate, tapering regularly to the base ; the mouth 

 with 5 small, bluntly triangular teeth reflexed after flowering. Petals 

 orbicular, much larger than the calyx-teeth, calyptrate. Fruit when 

 ripe as large as a cherry, depressed at both ends, pulpy, the apex 

 crowned by the small circular remains of the calyx. Duthie in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 492 (in part). E. inophylla, ? in Wall. Cat. 3600 and 

 not of Roxb. 



Malacca: Maingay Herb. prop. 3012 (K.D. 753 in part). Penang : 

 Wallich ; Curtis 750, 6Q6, 2246, 2247. 



Hitherto collected only in Malacca and Penang. This is one of three plants 

 issued doubtfully by Wallich as E. inophylla, Roxb. ; and one of two issued from 

 Herb. Kew, as 753 Maingay. There are in Herb. Kew, three Maingayan sheets 

 under the distribution 753. Two of these bore the same number in Maingay's 

 own collection, viz., 3012 : the third, which is imperfect, bore his 1558, and is 

 a different plant from his 3012 and is refiWy E. anisosepala, Duthie. E. Igsvicaulis 

 is allied to E. oblata, Roxb., but has more contracted panicles with much shorter 

 branches, more oblong flower-buds, shorter stamens, more faintly nerved leaves 

 which are usually smaller. ' 



71. Eugenia Goodenovii, King n. sp. A tree, 50 to 70 feet high ; 

 young branches somewhat thicker than a crow-quill, terete, with com- 

 pressed nodes, the bark dull pale yellowish-grey. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblong-elliptic, rarely somewhat lanceolate, the base much cuneate, the 

 apex acute or sometimes shortly and bluntly acuminate ; both surfaces 

 rather dull when dry, yellowish-brown, the lower somewhat paler, the 

 main-nerves many pairs, inconspicuous on either surface as are the 

 secondary nerves and the reticulations ; the intramarginal nerve faint, 

 about "1 in. from the edge ; length 3*5 to 5'5 iu. ; breadth 1*5 to 2 in. ; 

 petioles '2 to *3 iu. Panicles terminal and from the axils of a few of the 

 upper leaves, 1*5 to 2 in. long and about as broad ; the branches few, 

 spreading, obscurely 4-angled. Flowers shortly pedicelled, (when 

 expanded) from '2 to "3 in. across, the buds clavate from '2 to '3 in. long. 

 Calyx funnel-shaped, the mouth with 4 broad, rounded lobes. Petals 4, 

 sub-orbicular, calyptrate. Fruit broadly urn-shaped, the apex broad 



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