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9. PsEUnO-EUGKNiA, Scortechini. 

 Trees with opposite punctate leaves and few-flowered, axillary, 

 minutely bracteolate inflorescence. Galyx-tiibe turbinate or oblong, its 

 mouth with 4 small rounded lobes, and bearing a thin annular stamini- 

 ferous disc. Petals 4, orbicular, clawed. Stamens 8, in two rows ; 

 filaments inflexed in bud; anthers small, 2-celled. Ooary 2-celled. 

 Style short. Ovules numerous, in several series on the placentas. Fruit 

 as in Eugenia, 1- to 2-seeded. Distrib. — 2 species, both Malayan. 

 A genus which differs from Eugenia chiefly in having only 8 stamens. 

 Leaves 4'5 to 6 in. long 1. P. peralcensis. 



„ 15 to 25 in. long 2. P. singaporensis. 



1. PsEUDO-EUGENiA PERAKENSis, Scortechini in Journ. Bot. 

 XXITI (1885), 153. A tree, 15 feet high; young branches thin, 

 terete. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, slightly narrowed 

 at the base, the apex with a slender obtuse acumen, pellucid-punctate, 

 the main-nerves close, inconspicuous on the upper surface, sub-hori- 

 zontal, interarching near the margin ; length 45 to 6 in. ; breadth 1"5 to 

 2 in. ; petioles short. Calyx-lohes incurved. Petals 4, small, free, 

 spreading, distant. Stamens short. Berry pisiform. Eugenia skiophila, 

 Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 11, 486. 



Penang : Maingay. Perak : Scortechini. 



2. Pseudo-euqenia singaporensis. King n. sp. A tree, 30 to 40 

 feet high ; young branches as thin as a crow-quill or thinner, terete, 

 smooth, dark- brown. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 slightly narrowed at the base, the apex abruptly and bluntly acuminate ; 

 both surfaces (when dry), dull and of a uniform dark-brown colour ; 

 the upper with the midrib depressed and the main-nerves and reticu- 

 lations obscure; the lower minutely warted; the main-nerves numerous, 

 faint, interarching near the edge; length I '5 to 2*5 in.; breadth '45 to '7 

 in. ; petioles "1 to "15 in. Panicles shorter than the leaves, axillary, 

 few-branched and few-flowered ; the peduncle and branches very slender, 

 dark coloured, 4-angled. Flowers clavate in bud and greenish. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Singapore : Uidley 2909 ; King's Collector 1242, 5957, 8710. 



Note. 



In addition to the two species above described there are in the Calcutta Herb- 

 arium specimens of what appears to be a third species of this genus collected by 

 Mr. Harvey near Malacca. In these specimens the leaves are ovate with acute 

 apices and cuneate bases, and 5 to 7 pairs of ascending main-nerves rather promi- 

 nent on the lower surface. The leaves are from 3 to 4 inches long and about half 

 as much in breadth. The flowers measure about '3 in. in length and rise in pairs 

 from the stems below the leaves. Mr. Forbes also collected in Sumatra specimens 

 (Herb. Forbes 2889) of a small tree with elliptic, caudate-acuminate leaves 



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