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and truncate, crowned in the middle by the short conical remains of the 

 style, about '^ in. in diam. when dry and about "6 in. lon^, the base 

 with a fleshy papilla and a short stout stalk. Syz. rigidum, Wall. Cat. 

 358J. 



Malacca : ? ; WalUch; Goodenough 1759. Selangor : King's Collector 

 8741. UiSTRiB.— Java. 



Wallich's specimens of this are referred in the Flora of British India to 

 E. chlorantha, Duthie. The better examples collected since Wallich's time by 

 Messrs. Goodenough and Kunstler however shew this to be a distinct species, 

 Wallich's specific name for which would have been retained but for the priority of 

 DeCandolle's Eugenia rigida. This strongly resembles E. Zippelliana, Miq., as that 

 species is represented at Kew. 



72. Eugenia linocieroidea, King. A tree, 40 to 50 feet high; 

 young branches when in flower as thick as a crow-quill (thicker when 

 ill fruit), dark-brown. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 

 the base cuneate; both surfaces of an olivaceous, leaden colour when 

 dry, the upper very dark and shining, the nerves numerous, indistinct : 

 the lower paler and dull, the nerves straight spreading, black, inter- 

 arching less than '05 in. from the edge, the reticulations not prominent : 

 length 2 or (rarely) 3 in.; breadth '6 to 1 in. ; petioles '1 in. Panicles 

 terminal, as long as the leaves when in flower (longer when in fruit), 

 much branched, many-flowered, broader than long : main-branches sub- 

 horizontal, somewhat 4-angled, the branchlets acutely so. Flovjers '4i 

 in. long (including the stamens), sessile, the buds clavate. Calyx "3 in. 

 long, funnel-shaped, the lower half narrowed into a vertically ridged 

 pseudo-stalk ; the mouth with 4 deep, broad, rounded lobes. Petals 4, 

 sub-orbicular, calyptrate. Fruit oblong, with deep rugulose, vertical 

 ridges, the apex crowned by the enlarged calyx-limb and its 4 inflexed 

 teeth: length (unripe) '35 in. 



Perak : King's Collector 4580, 7980, 8094 ; Wray 1898, 2595. 



73. Eugenia myrtipolia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37; Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 490. A shrub or small tree; young branches 4-angled, pale-brown, 

 the older terete, greyish. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate to broadly 

 ovate, shortly acuminate, the base acute : both surfaces shining, dotted, 

 when dry brown, the lower paler ; nerves close and numerous, thin but 

 distinct on both surfaces ; length 1'5 to 2*5 in. ; breadth '75 to 1'35 in. ; 

 petiole "15 to '2 in. Panicles mostly terminal but a few from the upper 

 leaf-axils, pedunculate, longer than the leaves ; branches lax, spreading, 

 corymbose, 4-angled. Flowers 'S in. long (including the stamens) 

 sessile or pedicellate on the apices of the brancblets in twos or threes. 

 Calyx '15 in. long, clavate, the mouth with 4 very narrow lobes or 

 almost truncate. Petals 4, orbicular, calyptrate. Fruit globular, pisi- 

 form, pulpy, bluish-black, smooth, crowned by the cupular, truncate calyx- 



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