NAT. ORDER. 

 Mijrtacece. 



JAMBOSA VULGARIS. ROSE APPLE. 



Class XII. IcosANDRiA. Ordcv I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Tube of the Ca/j/.r turbinate. 2/o6es roundish. Petals 

 four. Stame7is numerous. Style filiform. Stigma simple, 

 acute. Cotyledons fleshy, thick. Floicers large, bractless. 



Sjje. Char. Racemes cymose, terminal. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 

 six or seven inches long. Fruit ovate, globose. 



This is an extraordinary evergreen tree, from twenty to thirty, and 

 sometimes even forty feet high, with a bushy but not close head of 

 shining, fine dark-green foliage; quite smooth in all its parts; bai/c 

 of the stem and branches cracked, but clean and even, and of a red- 

 dish brown ; the stem rarely exceeds nine inches or a foot in diame- 

 ter ; branches not much spreading, densely leafy towards the ends ; 

 the ultimate ones drooping from the weight of the fruit and flowers; 

 all round, smooth and even ; leaves opposite, lanceolate, six or eight 

 inches long, and one and a half or two inches broad, attenuated at 

 the base, gradually accuminate at the apex, coriaceous, firm, and 

 stifiish, rather faintly veined and punctate, dark shining green 

 above — paler and opaque beneath, and the younger ones and shoots 

 of a bright cinnamon red ; petioles short, stout, channelled, and not 

 more than one-fourth of an inch long ; Jlowers large, handsome, very 

 pale yellowish or greenish white, with a slight fragrance of Prim- 

 roses or Cowslips ; generally in terminal, small, loose, short cymes or 

 bunches ; occasionally lateral from the axils towards the ends of the 

 branches ; peduncles either simple, bifid or trifid — usually the latter, 



Vol. iv.— 116. 



