128 MYTRACEAE. (Eugenia. 
pedicels 2—4’. Bracts and bractlets ovate-lanceolate, 6—3". Flowers 
larger than in no. 1. Calyx glabrous, turbinate, 3“, its ovate lobes half 
as long. Petals 2—3’', red (or yellow), as are: the long stamens. Cap- 
sule 4“, snpgernt projecting from the calyx-tube, free to the middle. 
Seeds fusiform. on c. p. 564, pl. 70. 
Oahu! Nuuanu to Palolo, ‘iow flower from atari; Molokai! leaves smaller and 
narrower; Kauai! leaves coutedating at the b 
2. EUGENIA, L. 
Calyx-tube globose to elongate, 4-, rarely 5-toothed, or produced above 
the ovary with 4 or rarely 5 distinct imbricate lobes. Petals 4, rarely 5, 
it a 
Seeds 1 or few. Embryo straight, with a short radicle, the cotyledons 
thick and usually consolidated into a single mass. — Trees or shrubs. 
Leaves opposite, penni-nerved. Flowers in trichotomous terminal and 
lateral or axillary cymes or sv solleaies or single or few (on short spurs or 
buds) in the bene of sok 
la 
mee haanion ed tropical sere se few peor in Australia and Africa. Cultiva sae 
roche Lam.), fruit red and ribbed like a tomato, and a er species of ‘rigenie grr 
black fruit of the size of a large cherry, improperly called the Chinese 
ers single in the axils of leaves 3. E saa 
Flower in Serie or compound co: rymbose cymes: fruit less than 
‘in di ; 2. E. Sandwicensis. 
Plowors in pclitiuike cymes; fruit about: 3 in diam. : , i 1. E. Malaccensis. 
is, L. — A glabrous tree, 25—50 ft. high. Leaves 
opposite, elliptico- or obovato-oblong, 6—7‘ XX 2!/2—3', on petioles of 
1/2‘, suddenly acuminate, dark green and shining, not dotted, the sinuate 
micpinal nerve distant from the edge. Cymes axillary, usually cauline, 
short, about 2’ long, their lowest branches 4—6” long and 3-flowered, the 
middle or terminal branch racemose. Pedicels short, gradually eee 
into the calyx. Calyx turbinate, produced beyond the ovary, with 4 rounded 
lobes, Petals obovate, red, 3; the red stamens 9” long. Fruit vise 
about 3’ in diameter, umbilicate at the top and crowned by the truncate 
sear of the talyx lobes. deep crimson. Seed generally one. — Jambosa 
Malaccensis, DC. — J. domestica, Rumph, — J. purpurascens, DC. — Mrs. 
pL 4i. 
& var. — Flowers and fruit white (rare). 
On all islands, in the lowest forest-zone up to about aoe sgt always gregarious, form- 
~=* a ee on the north side of E. Maui. Nat. n <Ohia ai», or simply «Ohia»- 
occurs on all the larger island gro ope Of Y ei sot BS Os Malaysian 
Acchielgo, being everywhere valued for pra fine fruit. Tahitian name: «Ahia»; Vitian: 
