474 LIX. MYKTACEJE. (J. F. Duthie.) [Eugenia. 



9. E. Jambos, Linn. ; leaves narrowly lanceolate acuminate attenuated 

 at the base into a short petiole coriaceous midrib stout nerves prominent below 

 and uniting within the margin in a distinct and continuous one, racemes short 

 terminal, flowers large white, calyx-tube turbinate, berry subglobose crowned 

 with the 4 persistent calyx-lobes. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37 ; Fl. 2nd. ii. 494 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 3615 ; Wight III. ii. 14 ; Ic. t. 435 (vulgaris) ; Bedd. FL Syly. Anal. 

 Gen. ex. ; Brandts For. Fl. 233. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bang. xlvi. (1877) 

 pt. ii. p. 69; For. FL Brit. Burm. i. 495. Jambosa vulgaris, DC. ; Blume 

 Mus. Bot. i. 93 ; WSf A. Prodr. i. 332 ; Bot. Mag. 3356 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. i. 425 ; Berg in Fl. Brazil vol. xiv. pt. i. 377. Myrtus Jambos, Kunth ; 

 Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. (1846) 200 ; Blume Bijdr. 1085. Humph. 

 Herb. Amb. i. 123 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. i. 27, f. 17. 



Indigenous in the SIKKIM TERAI (Brandis) ; BURMA (cult, only Kurz), PEGU, 

 McClelland ; PENANG, Wallich. DISTRIB. Yunan to Australia. (Said to be natura- 

 lised at Hong Kong). 



A moderate -sized tree ; branchlets compressed or sub-4-gonous. Leaves variable 

 in length, 1^-2 in. broad ; nerves reticulate beneath ; midrib stout ; petiole short 

 and stout, in. or less. Calyx-tube produced above the ovary ; lobes round. Berries 

 1-2 in. diara. 



VAR. divaricata ; branchlets stout distinctly 4-gonous, cymes terminal and from 

 the upper axils dense subsessile, branches stout spreading. Penang (Maingay, 735). 

 This resembles E. densiflora in its inflorescence. 



10. E. macrocarpa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37; Fl. Ind. 497; leaves 

 shortly petioled lanceolate acuminate narrowed at the base rounded or subcor- 

 date coriaceous minutely dotted, midrib and nerves very prominent beneath and 

 uniting in conspicuous double marginal loopings, interspaces reticulate, cymes 

 compact terminal and lateral subsessile, flowers sessile, bracteoles persistent at 

 the nodes, calyx-tube turbinate narrow below, limb suboctofid, lobes unequal, 

 berry globose. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlvi. (1877) pt. ii. p. 68 ; For. FL 

 Brit. Burm. i. 492 ; Wight Ic. t. 612. Jambosa macrocarpa, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. i. 417. J. coarctata, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 99. 



ASSAM and CHITTAGONG, Wallich ; CACHAR, Keenan ; MOULMEIN, Falconer ; MA- 

 LACCA, Griffith, Maingay (736 Kew Distrib.) ; PEGU and MARTABAN, ascending to 

 2000 ft., Falconer, Brandis. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Branchlets 4-gonous. Leaves rarely subalternate, or in threes, 5-10 by ^4 in. 

 In Maingay's Malacca specimens the angles of the branchlets are winged, and the bark 

 is of a reddish colour ; the petioles are stout, rather less than | in. ; calyx-tube | in. ; 

 style long and persistent. Eoxburgh describes the fruit as about the size of an 

 orange, and resembling that of Dillenia indica ; it is eaten, and ripens in August and 

 September. In Eoxburgh's figure a section of the fruit shows it to be 5- seeded. The 

 leaves are drawn too acute. Keenan describes it as being rather a tall tree with short 

 horizontal branches ; buds roundish, rosy ; the bruised leaves smell like cinnamon, 

 and the stamens are clove-scented. In Griffith's plant the calyx-tube is finely striate, 

 and there is a slight constriction near the middle. 



11. E. javanica, Lamk. Diet. iii. 200; leaves subsessile elliptic-oblong 

 rounded at the apex or obtusely acuminate rounded or subcordate at the base, 

 cymes axillary and terminal shorter than the leaves long-peduncled lax many- 

 flowered, flowers white, berries depressed-turbinate. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. xlvi. (1877) pt. ii. p. 69 ; For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 494. E. alba, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 39 ; FL Ind. ii. 493 ; Wall. Cat. 3614 0. Jambosa alba, Rumph. 

 Herb. Amb. i. 127, t. 39 ; W. $ A. Prodr. i. 332 ; Wight III. ii. 14; Ic. t. 548 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 413 in part. J. samarangensis, DC. Prodr. iii. 286 ; 



'Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. 201; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 95; Bijd. 1084 



