122 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Teninsula. 



Perak : Scortechini 294 ; Wray 217, 3844. Kings Collector 8030. 



Syzygium apodum, Miq., a Sumatran species, closely resembles this but has 

 thicker leaves with strongly recurved margins. 



79. Eugenia pdnctulata, Kinor. A tree, 30 to 50 feet high; young 

 branches thinner than a goose-quill, slightly compressed, the bark 

 pale-brown, deciduous in flakes, and the older branches grey. Leaves 

 coriaceous, obovate or oblanceolate, the apex broad and usually blunt 

 but sometimes with a short point, much narrowed at the base, the 

 edges slightly recurved; upper surface olivaceous (when dry), 

 shining, the nerves indistinct; lower olivaceous- brown, the numerous 

 straight nerves and reticulations faiut ; length lb to 3 in. ; breadth 

 1 to 1*75 in. ; petiole '2 to '25 in. Panicles rather lax, teiminal, longer 

 than the leaves (often twice as long, especially in the fruiting stage) : 

 branches numerous, spreading, compressed or 4-angled, many-flowered. 

 Flowers sessile at the apices of the branchlets with a few scarions 

 bracteoles at their bases. Calyx campanulate, only 'l in. long, its 

 mouth obscurely 4-tootiied, smooth. Petals deciduous. Fruit ovoid, 

 much wrinkled when dry and crowned by the wide calyx-limb, "4 in. 

 long (unripe). Syzygium punctulatum, Wall. Cat. 3583. Jambosa punc- 

 tulata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 310. 



Singapore: Wallich. Perak : King's Collector 3475, 3782, 6426, 

 6671, 6937, 10984; Wray 1125, 3972. Singapore: Ridley 3893, 49S8, 

 4989, 6540. Malacca : Derri/ 1 J 54. Di^trib. — Borneo. 



This is doubtfully referred in the Flora of British India to E. pyrifolia, Wall. 

 The more complete specimens collected since that Flora was published show that 

 E. punctAilata is a perfectly distinct species. 



80. Eugenia bracteolata, Wight 111. II, 15 : Ic. t. 531. A tree, 

 30 to 60 feet high ; young bj anches boldly 4-angled, pale-brown, about 

 as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-obovate or oblanceo- 

 late, the apex broad and with a short blunt apiculus, rarely sub-acute, 

 the base cuneate : when dry the upper surface dark-brown, shining, 

 obscurely pitted, the nerves faint and impressed ; the lower paler brown, 

 neither pitted or dotted, the numerous pairs of horizontal nerves and 

 the wide reticulations slightly distinct, the midrib very prominent ; 

 length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2 in. ; petiole '3 to '5 in. Panicles 

 terminal, as long as the leaves, with small, ovate, concave bracteoles at 

 all its nodes, corymbose, many-flowered, the brandies few, the branch- 

 lets numerous and all (like the peduncle) acutely 4-angled and grooved. 

 Flowers in threes at the apices of the branchlets : bibracteolate at the 

 base and on short pedicels, '3 in. Jong including the stamens, globular- 

 clavate in bud. Calyx '15 in. long, shortly infundibuliform, rugulose, 

 the mouth with 4 rounded lobes. Petals whitish, calyptrate. Frtiit 



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