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VAR. ohovata ; leaves obovate or obovate-lanceolate. 



Perak: King's Collector 6627, 10417, 8129, 8700, 5990, 5986, 8700, 



84<. Eugenia scoparia, Wall. Cat. 3594. A tree ? Young branches 

 about as thick as a crow-qaill, terete, pale-brown, smooth. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblanceolate to obovoid, occasionally elliptic-lanceolate, the 

 apex sub-acute or obtuse, the base always cuneate ; upper surface brown 

 and with numerous small pits, the lower paler and with numerous 

 minute blnck glands, midrib depressed on the upper and prominent 

 on the lower surface, the nerves almost invisible on both ; length 1*25 

 to 225 in. ; breadth '6 to I'l in. Panicles terminal and from the upper 

 leaf axils, longer than the leaves, on slender, rather long, 4-angled 

 peduncles bearing near the apex a few divaricate laxly-flowered branches. 

 i'^Zoiyer-buds clavate, about "15 in. long; mouth of calyx wide, shortly 

 4-lobed, the tube short and abruptly contracted at the base. Fruit 

 almost globular with a truncate apex, smooth, '1 in. in diam. Dutliie 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ii.d. II, 489. Syzygium scoparim, Wall. MSS. ? 

 S. avene, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. Suppl. T, .312. 



SiGNAPORE : Wallich. MALACCA : Goodenough 1649. 



Specimens of a species nearly allied to this were collected at Changi in Singa- 

 pore by Mr. Ridley in October 1890 and again at Selangor (Herb. 7555) in 1896. 

 They differ in having the leaves broader, more pronounced obovate, and almost 

 without dots or glands. 



85. Eugenia myriantha, King n. sp. A tall tree ; young branches 

 slightly thicker than a crow-quill, terete. Leaves very coriaceous, 

 oblanceolate sub-acute, the base much narrowed ; when diy upper 

 surface pale-brown, shining, dotted ; the lower darker brown, dull, 

 sub-glaucous ; nerves 3 or 4 pairs, on each side very faint, distant, 

 ascending : reticulations on both surfaces invisible, the edges slightly 

 recurved ; length 1 to 1*75 in. ; breadth '5 to '75 in. ; petiole '25 to '3 in. 

 Panicles very numerous, longer than the leaves, terminal or in the 

 upper axils, pedunculate ; branches numerous, spreading, the branchlets 

 quadrangular and bearing at their apices numerous small sessile flowers 

 with broad rounded bracteoles at their bases. Flowers only '1 in. long, 

 truncate in bud. Calyx cylindric, the mouth very obscurely lobed. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini 337. 



A species resembling E. microcnlyx, Dnthie, in its inflorescence and very small 

 flowers and also in the character of the venation of the leaves which however are 

 much smaller. 



86. Eugenia vereccnda, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 496. 

 A small tree ; young branches as thick as a crow-quill, pale yellow, 

 terete, smooth. Leaves tliiuly coriaceous, ovate, acuminate, the base 



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