Eugenia.} MYRTACEJ?. 195 



Wood reddish grey, rough, moderately hard, darker near the centre, no 

 distinct heartwood. Pores moderate-sized" and small, numerous, fre- 

 quently oval, elongated and subdivided. Medullary rays fine, numerous ; 

 the interval between the rays less than the diameter of the pores. 

 Faint, fine, concentric bands of softer tissue. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from the Indus eastwards, ascending to 5,000 feet in Kumaun ; 

 throughout India and Burma. 



Weight, according to Skinner, No. 120, 481bs. per cubic foot; according to Kyd. 

 (Saljam ?) 45 Ibs. ; the average of our 23 specimens gives 49 Ibs. Skinner gives 

 P = 600 and Kyd 577. Wood fairly durable. Five sleepers of it were laid down in 

 1870 on the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway, and taken up in 1875, when they were 

 reported to be fairly sound and not touched by white ants. 



Used for building, agricultural implements and carts, also for well-work, as it resists 

 the action of water well. The bark is used for dyeing and tanning, and is astringent 

 and used in medicine for cases of dysentery. The fruit is eaten. It is one of the trees 

 on which the " tasar " silkworm is fed. 



Ibs. 



E 2199 (43 Ibs.) received from Assam under the name of E. mangifolia, Wall. 

 tHook. Fi. Ind. ii. 480, resembles in structure E. Jambolana. 



B 2292 (56 Ibs.) received from the Andamans in 1866 under the name of Eugenia 

 sp. has a moderately hard, compact, grey wood, with the structure similar to that of 

 E, Jambolana, which is not yet known to grow in the Andamaus. 



No. 1 of Adrian Mendis' Ceylon Collection (49 Ibs.) is E. sylvestris, Wight ; 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 493 ; Beddome cvii. (Syzygium sylvestre, Thwaites Enuin. 116. 

 Vern. Alubo, Cingh.) In structure it resembles E, Jambolana. 



9. E. Heyneana, Wall.; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 500, E. salicifolia, 

 Wight; Beddome cix.; Brandis 234. Vern. Panjam-btil Mar. ; Hendi, 

 Gondi; Gambu, Kurku. 



A large shrub or small tree with grey bark. Wood similar to that 

 of E. Jambolana, but pores smaller. 



Bombay Ghats, Berar and Central Provinces. 



Ibs. 

 C 2786. Mel?hat, Berar 38 



