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broadly cuneate ; upper surface brown when dry, shining ; the lower 

 very pale brown, dull ; the numerous nerves, reticulations and intra- 

 marginal nerve rather distinct on both surfaces but especially on the 

 upper when dry ; length 2 to 3 in. ; breadth '75 to 1*5 in. ; petiole '35 

 to 6 in. ; slender. Panicles crowded at the apices of the branches and 

 in one or two of the upper leaf-axils, shorter than the leaves, on short 

 peduncles, the branches slender, lax, 4-angled. Flowers only '15 in. 

 long, sessile or on short pedicles, clavate, constricted immediately below 

 the turbinate apex. Calyx-tuhe somewhat ribbed, the wide mouth with 

 4 shallow distant lobes. Petals calyptrate. Fruit unknown. Syzygium 

 verecundwm, Wall. Cat. 3579. 



Malacca : Grifith. Penang : Wallich. Singapore : Uidley 9486. 

 Pangkore : Scortechini 163. 



87. Eugenia Swettenhamiana, King n. sp. A tree, 60 to 70 feet 

 high ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, terete, very pale, 

 faintly striate. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic-oblong to obovate- 

 lanceolate narrowed to the rounded base, the apex shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate ; upper surface dark-brown the nerves and midrib impressed ; 

 lower surface pale-brown, the midrib and main-nerves prominent ; the 

 latter 9 to 12 pairs curved and interarching to form a stout intramar- 

 ginal nerve '1 in. from the margin, the reticulations indistinct on both 

 surfaces ; length 3*5 to 4 in. ; breadth 1*2 to 1"75 in. ; petiole '25 to "35 

 in. Panicles several together at the ends of the branches, as long (with 

 their peduncles) as the leaves or longer,^ each bearing near its apex a 

 few slender 3-flowered umbellate branches, the branchlets, peduncle- 

 branches and branchlets compressed and 4-angled. Flowers greenish- 

 white, "35 in. across when expanded ; the buds before expansion clavate, 

 *2 in. long. Calyx funnel-shaped, sessile, contracted at the base, its 

 mouth with 4 broad, rounded, deciduous lobes. Petals 4, sub-orbicular, 

 free, as large as the calyx-lobes. Stamens short. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini ; King's Collector 7590. 



A species near E. pseudo-suhtile, King, but with oblanceolate leaves and long 

 slender peduncnlate umbellate panicles crowded at the apices of tlie twig. Named 

 to commemorate the help afforded in the Botanical exploration of Pei'ak by Sir 

 Frank Swettenham, K.C.M.G. 



88. Eugenia acuminatissima, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 XLVI, Pt. 2, 67 ; Fl. Br. Burm. I, 487. A tree, 20 to 50 feet high ; 

 young branches about as thick as a crow-quill, slightly compressed, the 

 bark pale-brown, peeling off in vertical flakes. Leaves coriaceous, 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the apex caudate-acuminate, the base 

 cuneate ; both surfaces pale-brown when dry, the upper tinged with 

 clivaceous, shining, the midrib depressed, the main-nerves 15 to 20 

 pairs, slightly raised, faint J lower surface darker than the upper, the 

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