130 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



ultimately grey. Leaves thinly coriaceous, variable in shape, ovate- 

 oblong to elliptic and (in var. 2) obovate, shortly acuminate, bluntly 

 apiculate or (in var. 2) obtuse, the base euneate ; both surfaces olivaceous 

 ■when dry, tlie lower paler and minutely dotted: main-nerves distinct on 

 the lower surface, 8 to 12 pairs, curved, ascending, becoming faint towards 

 the intramarginal nerve: length 4 to 6 in.; breadth 1*6 to 2*2 in.; 

 petiole '2 to '3 in. Fanicles from the branches below the leaves^ 

 2 or 3 inches long, peduuculate, spreading, lax ; the branches divaricates^ 

 trichotomous, 4-angled. Flowers in threes at the apices of the branchlets, 

 greenish, sessile. Ga2?/a: smooth, campanulate, contracted at the base; 

 the limb truncate. Petals 4, calyptrate, orbicular, concave, about *! in. 

 across. Fruit pisiform, smooth, very dark purple, pulpy, 1-seeded. 

 Wight Ic. t. 652 ; Brandis For. Fl. 234. ; Kurz For. Fl. I, 483 ; Duthie 

 in Hook. m. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 498. E. cerasoides, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 92"; 

 Fl. Ind. II, 488; Wight Ic. t. 615; Miq. Anal. Bot. Ind. I, 27 ; Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. I, Pt. 1, 443 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI, Pt. 2, 66 ; 

 For. Fl. I, 484. S-yzygium nervosum, DC. Prodr. Ill, 26Q ; Mem. Myrt. 

 II, 16; Wall. Cat. 3551 A&B; 3553 B&C (under E. ribesioides) ; 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. 119 ; Thwaites Enum. 417 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Rat. I.e. 460 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. CVI. S. costatum, nodosum, and angholaiuim, 

 Miq.. Fl. Ind. Bat. I.e. 448. Cali/ptranthes mangiferifolia, Hance in Walp. 

 Ann. II,. 629. G. eostata, Ham, in Wall. Cat. 3556. 0. grandis and 

 C. Tatna, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3554, 3555. 



Perak : Scortechini 306. Penang- : Gwrtis 1444. Distrib. — Bi'itish 

 India, S. China and the Malay Archipelago. 



Two varieties have been separated off but I have no specimens, of 

 either from any of the Provinces in our region. These are described as 

 follows by Mr. Duthie in Hooker's Flora of British India. 



VAR. Paniala ; berries oval. FL Paniala, Roxb. FL. Ind. II, 489 ;. 

 Wight Ic. t. 616 ; Kurz For. Fl. 1, 483. Syz. Panealla, Wall. Cat. 3557 ? 

 Calyptranthes cuneata, Ham. ? 



VAR. ohovata, Kurz For. Fl. I, 482 ; leaves obovate or oblanceolate^ 

 cymes more compact. Syz. ohovatum, Wall. Cat. 3552, not of DC. 

 S. vastum, Wall. Cat. 3661. 8. polyanthum, Thwaites ; not of Wight. 



A third variety occurs in Perak but it has as yet been only once 

 collected. It may be distinguished as foUoAvs. 



VAR. coriacea; leaves thicker than in the type and not dotted oy 

 very obscurely dotted on the lower surface. 



Perak : Wray 2725, at Matong on the sea-coast. 



95. Eugenia nicobarica. King. A tree ? Young branches rather 

 thinner than a goose-quill, terete, somewhat rough, grey. Leaves thiiily 

 coriaceous, lanceolate or elliptic, the apex sub-acute, the base cuueate-. 



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