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breadth 1*1 to 1*25 in. petiole '5 to '75 in. Panicles shorter thair <xr 

 nearly as long as the leaves, axillary and terminal, often 2 or 3 together, 

 few-branched ; the branches divaricate, 4-angled, few-flowered, tricho-. 

 tomous. Flowers sessile, small. Calyx only '05 in, long, at first almost 

 cylindric slightly narrowed to the base, afterwards arn-shaped and 

 finally globular, the mouth with a piojecting rim, truncate but with 4 

 broad, shallow teeth. Fruit the size and shape of a pepper-corn^ smooth, 

 surmounted by the small remains of the calyx and by the base of the style. 

 E. h'dchiata, Duthie (not of Roxb,) in Hook.fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, (in part), 



Penang: Curtis S4i75. Perak : King's Collector 6946. Singapork: 

 Eidleij 4990. 



VAR. platyphylla ; leaves broader than in the typical form, elliptic, 

 oblanceolate-oblong, sub-acute or with broad rounded apex, the base 

 always cuneate. 



Singapore: Ridley 3962. Malacca: Berry; Scorteehini. Perak : 

 Penang : Curtis 32. Syzyg, ribesoides, Wall. Cat. 3553. Syzyg, cinereum. 

 Wall. Cat. 3576. 



VAR. suhacuminata ; leaves bluntly acuminate. 



Penang : King's Collector 1793. 



This species closely resembles S. suhtile, Miq., in its pale hranclies, in the shape 

 and texture of its leaves and in its flowers. The leaves however have only aboufc 

 one-third as n>any nerves. The two are however very near. 



83. Eugenia microcalyx, Duthie in^Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 493. 

 A tree, 40 to 50 feet high; young branches slender, 4-angled, brown. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong-obovate or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, much 

 narrowed from the middle to the base ; upper surface blackish-brown 

 when dry, the nerves faint : lower warm-brown the nerves and midrib 

 prominent : main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, rather straight, ascending, 

 interarching '15 in. from the. edge in a bold wavy line ; the edges much 

 and irregularly recurved when dry; length 225 to 35 in.; breadth 

 1"25 to 2 in. ; petiole '25 to '3 in. Panicles terminal and axillary, as long 

 as or longer than the leaves, on long slender peduncles ; branches and 

 branchlets Inx, spreading, compressed, with minutely triangular persist- 

 ent bract-eoles at their bases. Flowers yellowish-white, sessile, in heads 

 at the ends of the branchlets, small (only '2 in. long including the 

 stamens), bracteolate at the base. Calyx 16 in. long, funnel-shaped, 

 minutely granular ; the mouth with 4 small distant triangular lobes. 

 Petals 4, calyptrate. Frtdt (probably unripe) as large as a pepper-corn, 

 globular, crowned by the wide calyx-limb, white tinged with red. 



Malacca: Gri-fflth (K.D.) 2410 (in part), 24^11. Derry SbSl ; Main- 

 gay (K.D.) 727, 731. Singapore: Pidley 2054. Perak: Ki'ug'» 

 Collector 5986, 5990, 6627, 8129, 8700, 10417, 10735. 

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