120 NAT. ORDER. MVRTACE^. 



is a native of the East Indies, and is common in most of the Islands 

 in tlie South Sea. 



Jambosa amplexicaulus. Stem-dasping-leaved Rose Apple. This 

 tree generally attains tiie height of twenty or tiiirty feet; racemes 

 fc\v-flo\vcred, terminal — lower ones axillary, solitary ; leaves mem- 

 branous, oblong, lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, undulated, rather cor- 

 date at the base ; fruit very fine, purple, and about the size oT a 

 small apple ; calyx fleshy, bluntly four-cleft. It is a native of Su- 

 matra. 



Jcunhosa australis. Soutliern Rose Apple. This tree rises about 

 twenty feet in height; peduncle-s axillary, tliree-flowered, solitary — 

 terminal ones rather solitary, panicled ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 

 acute ; flowers white. It is a native of New Holland, where it is 

 cultivated as an ornament by the road sides and pleasure grounds. - 



Jambosa furmosa. Beautiful Rose Apple. This species rises 

 from twenty-five to thirty feet in heigiit; leaves elliptic-oblong, 

 rather accuminated, sessile, cordate, stem-clasping ; racemes axillary, 

 rising after the leaves have fallen, sessile, short ; pedicles clavate- 

 elongated ; flowers smooth ; stamens very long ; berry globose, pen- 

 dulous ; calyx and petals reddish ; filaments white. Xative of the 

 East Indies, at Moalmyne, and at the bottoms of the rocks on the 

 banks of the Athan. 



Jambosa laurifoUa. Laurel-leaved Rose Apple. This tree is 

 rather uniform in height with the other species, being from twenty 

 to thirty feet ; cymes axillary, opposite, three to five-flowered ; lower 

 pedicles opposite, elongated ; flowers three, terminal, sessile on the 

 tops of the peduncles ; leaves elliptic, bluntish at both ends ; flowers 

 white. Native of the East Indies. 



Jambosa hypericifoUa. St. John's-wort-leaved Rose Apple. This 

 species is a shrub ; pedicles terminal, solitary, one-flowered shorter 

 than the leaves ; leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, rather 

 cordate at the base, glabrous ; calyx four cleft, rather attenuated at 

 base. It is a native of Java, on Mount Salak. 



