Eugenia.] LIX. MYRTACEJ:. (J. F. Duthie.) 471 



SECT. I. Jambosa. Inflorescence cymose. Calyx usually with a thick- 

 ened staminal disk and 4 conspicuous persistent lobes. Floivers showy, usually 

 4-merous. Berries large, turoinate or ovoid. Seeds large, with a thick fleshy 

 endocarp. (To p. 481). 



* Flowers lateral, sessile or subsessile, usually from leafless axils. 



1. E. formosa, Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 6, t. 108 ; Cat. 3609, in part ; 

 leaves large opposite or in threes nearly sessile elliptic-oblong obtusely acumi- 

 nate cordate or amplexicaul at the base, racemes lateral short few-flowered, 

 calyx-tube turbinate narrowed into a long pedicel, lobes unequal, fruit subglo- 

 bose pendulous crowned with the recurved calyx-limb. Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 68 ; For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 492 ; Wight III ii. 14. 

 Jambosa formosa, Walp. Rep. Bot. ii. 191 ; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 92 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 412. J. mappacea, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. 200. 



EASTERN BENGAL and EASTERN PENINSULA, Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim, 

 Moulmein. Banks of Attra R, Wallich. 



A lofty tree with wide-spreading branches. Bark soft, ash-coloured, marked with 

 the scars of fallen leaves. Branchlets alternately compressed or subtrigonous. Leaves 

 crowded at the ends of the branchlets, 5- upwards of 16 by 4-4 in., very coriaceous, 

 shining above, paler beneath ; midrib stout ; lateral nerves prominent beneath, 

 uniting within the margin. Flowers large, purple turning to red, scertless. Peduncles 

 fleshy, branches clavate jointed near the middle ; bracteoles 2, minute. Calyx-tube 

 much produced ; lobes spreading, orbicular. Petals twice as large as the calyx-lobes,, 

 shortly clawed/ Stamens many, very long. Ovary turbinate. Berry size of a walnut, 

 2-celled, smooth, shining, white, insipid. Seeds large, rugose, greenish, 



VAR. ternifolia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37; Fl. Ind. ii. 489 (sp.) ; leaves in threes. 

 Wall Cat. 3607; Wight III. ii. 14; Ic. t. 611; Blume Mus. Bot. 92 (Jambosa}. - 

 SIKKIM, J. D. H. ; ASSAM and SILHET, Wallich. PEGU, McClelland. 



2. E. amplexicaulis, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37; Fl. Ind. ii. 483; leaves 

 opposite amplexicaul oblong with a rounded apex, peduncles short lateral 3- or 

 9-tiowered, berries spherical size of a small apple. Wight III. ii. 14 ; Ic. t. 608 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 3612 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1033 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlvi. 

 (1877) pt. ii. p. 68; For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 493. Jambosa amplexicaulis, 

 DC. Prod. iii. 287. J. alba, var. amplexicaulis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 414 ; 

 Blume Mus. Bot. i. 96. J. sylvestris alba, Rumph. Herb. Amb. i. 127, t. 39 ? 



CHITTAGONG, Roxburgh. 



A stately tree. Trunk tolerably straight, quickly dividing into numerous spread- 

 ing branches. Bark of woody parts brown. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in. Peduncles trifid, 

 each division 3-flowered. Flowers large, white, scentless. Berry greenish-yellow 

 when ripe. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1. c. refers to specimens in Herb. Brandis 

 collected in Upper Tenasserim as coming very near to this species, and only differing 

 from Eoxburgh's figure by having a terminal inflorescence. In the figure given by 

 Kumphius 1. c. the leaves are acute at the base. 



3. E. malaccensis, Linn. ; Lam. Diet. iii. 196 ; leaves shortly petioled 

 large ovate or elliptic-oblong attenuated at each end coriaceous glossy, racemes 

 lateral dense shortly peduncled, flowers red, calyx-tube turbinate narrow below, 

 lobes unequal, fruit subglobose or depressed-turbinate crowned with the in- 

 curved calyx-lobes. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 483 ; Wall Cat. 3611 ; Wight III. ii. 14, 

 .t. 98 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. ex. ; Kurz in Journ. As.^Soc. Beng. xlvi. pt. 

 ii. p. 68 ; For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 493. E. macrophylla, Lam. I. c. Jambosa 

 malaccensis, DC. ; Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. (1847) 200; Bot. Mag. 4408; W. $ 

 A. Prodr. i. 332. J. purpurascens, DC. I.e. excl. syn. Roxb. J. domestica, 



