472 LIX. MYRTACEJS. (J. F. Duthie.) [Eugenia. 



Eumph. Herb. Amb. i. 121, t. 37 (not good) and 38, f. i. ; DC. 1. c. 288 ; Blume 

 Mm. Bot. i. 91 ; Miq. Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. pt. i. 411 ; Berg in Fl. Brazil xiv. 

 pt. i. 376 Myrtus macrophylla, Sprenq.-, Blume, Bijdr. 1084. M. malaccensis, 

 Spreng ; Blume I. c. 1083. Burm. Fl. Ind. 114 ; Rheede Hart. Mai. i. 29, t. 18. 



MALAYA, Maingay, Griffith. CHITTAGONG (cult, ?) J. D. H. & T. T. Tenasserim. 

 DISTRIB. Malayan Islands. Many varieties are cultivated in different parts of 

 the world. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft. high, with terete-compressed branchlets. Leaves 9-12 by 3^ in., 

 glossy on both surfaces ; dots inconspicuous ; nerves indistinct above, the primary ones 

 few prominent beneath and uniting more or less distinctly within the margin, some- 

 times in double loopings ; petiole stout, channelled above, \-% in. Flowers large 

 and handsome. Calyx-tube f in. ; lobes unequal, rounded, with membranous edges, 

 the larger pair f in. long. Petals large, suborbicular, glandular. Stamens numerous, 

 about 1 in. in length. Style long, persistent, nearly equalling the stamens. Fruit 

 large and juicy, very generally eaten, but insipid (Roxburgh). In a cultivated spe- 

 cimen from Chittagong the leaves are distinctly pellucid-punctate with large glands. 



VAB. purpurea ; fruit ovoid dark purple. E. purpurea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37 ; Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 483; Wight 111. ii. 14; Ic. ii. 549. J. purpurea, Wall. Cat. 3610. J. 

 domestica, var. purpurea, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 92 ; Miq. I. c. J . nigra, Eumph. Awb. 

 125, t. 38, fig. 1? 



4. IS. polypetala, Wight Itt. ii. 14 ; Ic. t. 610 ; leaves ternate linear- 

 lanceolate, peduncles lateral 3-4-flowered, corolla many-petalled. Wall. Cat. 

 3616 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 69 ; For. Fl. Brit. 

 Burm. i. 493. E. salicifolia, Buck. Cat. 37. E. angustifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 490. 



SILHET, Wattich ; KHASIA MTS., Griffith ; CHITTAOONG, Roxburgh. 



A small tree. Leaves 4-5 in. by nearly an inch in width, midrib and lateral nerves 

 prominent beneath, uniting close within the margin. Flowers smaller than those of 

 E. diospyrifolia. Calyx-tube broad, and rather more than | in. long when in flower. 

 Roxburgh says (1. c.) that this flowers in March and April, and the fruit ripens in 

 June and July; it is readily known by its many (12-16) petals and the ternate 

 leaves. Allied to Jambosa temula, Blume, and J. media, Korth. 



** Flowers terminal and axillary. 

 t Calyx-tube broadly turbinate. 

 Calyx | in. or more in length. 



5. E. diospyrifolia, Wall. Cat. 3617 ; leaves long and narrow ovate- 

 lanceolate or oblong acutely acuminate cordate at the base and nearly sessile, 

 flowers terminal few, calyx-tube about f in. long produced beyond the ovary, 

 lobes very broad. 



SILHET, Wallich; KHASIA, Griffith. 



Leaves 6-7 by 1| in. pale coloured and with a yellowish tinge beneath. Allied to 

 E. Munronii, but the lateral nerves of the leaf are much less prominent beneath and 

 do not form by their union such a distinct intramarginal one ; the flowers are fewer 

 on shorter peduncles, and the calyx-tube is broader above and not so attenuated 

 below. 



6. E. Munronii, Wight 111. ii. 14 ; Ic. t. 546 ; leaves shortly petioled 

 narrowly lanceolate obtusely acuminate somewhat cordate at the base very 

 coriaceous, nerves prominent beneath ^uniting in a thick waving intramarginal 

 one, cymes terminal, flowers large reddish or white, calyx-tube attenuated 



