Eugenia.'] LIX. MTKTACEJJ. (J. F. Duthie.) 475 



(Myrtus) ; Berg in Fl. Brazil vol. xiv. pt. i. 377. J. macrophylla, DC. Prodr. 

 I.e. in part. 



MALACCA, Griffith; ANDAMAN and NICOBAB ISLANDS, Kurz. DISTRIB. Malay 

 Islands. 



A tree ; trunk rarely straight and soon divided, branchlets terete or terete-com- 

 pressed. Leaves 5-6^ by lf-2f in., or larger in cultivated examples; nerves indis- 

 tinct above, slender but prominent beneath and uniting in loops within the margin. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, about \ in., slender below ; lobes 4, rather unequal, membranous 

 at the edges. Berry size of a medlar, white or red. This tree, according to Mr. Kurz, 

 flowers in March and April, and the fruit ripens in May and June. 



VAE. Roxburghiana, "Wall. MSS. (sp.); leaves shortly petioled cordate at the 

 base rounded at the apex, cymes compact terminal. E. decora, Wall. Cat. 3608. 

 Chittagong. 



12. E. pendens, Duthie ; young branches terete, leaves shortly petioled 

 oblong or ovate-lanceolate narrowed below obtusely acuminate subcoriaceous 

 pellucid-punctate, principal lateral nerves prominent beneath and widely 

 separated, cymes terminal and axillary 5-7-flowered, flowers large the lower 

 ones long pedicelled, calyx-tube turbinate. 



MALACCA, Griffith, 2349, Maingay, 747. 



" Kather a small tree with pendent branches " (Griffith). Leaves shining a little 

 on the upper surface, 5-8 by 2-3^ in. ; nerves indistinct above prominent beneath, 

 uniting in a distinct looping one within the margin ; petiole f in. Peduncles equalling 

 the petioles or a little longer ; lower pedicels about in. Calyx-tube f in. ; lobes 

 4, rounded, with membranous edges, opposite pairs equal, reflexed after flowering. 

 Petals large, orbicular. Style very long, Ijin., persistent. 



Calyx less than | in. in length, 

 a. Flowers pedicelled. 



13. E. Wallichii, Wight El. ii. 17 ; Ic. t. 536 ; leaves lanceolate or 

 elliptic-oblong acuminate acute at the base dark and shining above, lateral nerves 

 uniting twice within the margin, cymes corymbose axillary and terminal shorter 

 than the leaves, calyx-tube suddenly contracted at the base lobes prominent per- 

 sistent, petals frequently expanding before falling, berries oblong. 0. bifaria, 

 Colebr. in Wall. Cat. 3606. E. prsecox, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 488 ? ; Wight Ic. t. 

 619 ; Kurz in Jaum. As. Soc. Beng. xlvi. (1877) pt. ii. p. 66 ; For. Fl. Brit. 

 Burm. i. 483. 



SIKKIM, J. D. H. ; KHASIA and BHOTAN, Griffith ; ASSAM, Masters ; SILHET, 

 J. D. H. $T. T.', CHITTAGONG, Roxburgh, J. D. H. $ T. T. ; MERGTJI, Griffith. 



A tree ; branchlets stout, quadrangular. Leaves 4^ by 1| in., coriaceous, rusty- 

 coloured beneath ; petiole about in. Flowers white. Calyx tube about in. long. 

 Stamens about 4 times the length of the calyx. Style long, persistent. Berry about 

 ^ in., crowned with the cup-shaped calyx-limb.^ In Eoxburgh's figure of E. prtscox 

 the inflorescence is more branched and the jjjf&wers rather smaller ; the leaves are 

 drawn acutely acuminate. 



VAB. lance&folia ; leaves rounded at the base?- petiole much shorter ; E. lancese- 

 folia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 494. SILHET FORESTS, Roxburgh. CHITTA- 

 GONG, J. D. H. $ T. T. 



/3. Floivers sessile. 



14. E. gr andis, Wight HI. ii. 17 ; Ic. t. 614 ; leaves large thick hard 

 and coriaceous shining broadly obovate or suborbicular abruptly acuminate or 



