492 LIX. MYETACE^:. (J. F, Dnthie.) [Eugenia. 



coriaceous midrib keeled beneath lateral nerves indistinct, cymes terminal 

 corymbose branches stout angled compressed and flattened upwards, flowers 

 crowded, calyx-tube shortly obconic obscurely 5-lobed, petals calyptrate. 



SINGAPORE, in very dense woods, Wallich; Government Hill, PENANG, Maingay, 

 740. 



A tree, about 15 ft. high (Maingay). Branchlets terete-compressed. Leaves 

 2^-4 by 1-lf in., smooth and polished above ; lateral nerves slender beneath, uniting 

 close to the margin, interspaces laxly reticulate. Flowers red and white (Maingay). 

 Calyx-tube about in., squarrose. Bracts triangular. Fruit size of a small cherry. 



75. ZS. colorata, Duthie ; leaves very shortly petioled elliptic or oblong- 

 obovate rounded or subcordate at the base rather acutely acuminate very thick 

 and coriaceous, cymes terminal, branches stout alternately compressed shorter 

 than the leaves, flowers crowded in compact corymbs, petals united, calyx about 

 ^ in. with 5 shallow lobes. 



MALACCA, Maingay, 749. 



Branchlets terete, reddish -brown. Leaves 4-5| by 1 to 2|in.; midrib angled 

 beneath, tinged with red; nerves indistinct above, slender beneath, uniting close 

 within the margin, interspaces reticulate. 



76. E. revoluta, Wight HI. ii. 17 ; Ic. t. 534 ; leaves lanceolate with a 

 small obtuse point to ovate or broadly obovate and obtuse coriaceous margins 

 often revolute, cymes terminal longish peduncled, flowers sessile congested at 

 the ends of the branchlets, fruit spherical reddish size of a small cherry. Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen, cvii. ; not of Berg. Syzygium revolutum, Thivaites Enum. 

 117. 



NILGHIRI MTS., Hb. Hohenacker. CEYLON, in the Central Provinces, alt. 3-6000 

 ft. (Adam's Peak), Walker, Thwaites, &c. 



A moderate-sized tree ; branchlets terete or obscurely 4-gonous. Leaves shortly 

 petioled, variable in size, polished above, dull and glaucous beneath. Calyx 4-5- 

 toothed. Petals free, or cohering and falling off as a lid. The Nilghiri specimens 

 have the leaves smoother above and more conspicuously dotted, the nervation is not so 

 prominent beneath. There is a small-leaved form of this in Wight's Herbarium 

 collected in Ceylon by Col. Walker, and called var. parvifolia the leaves are about 1 

 by i in. 



77. E. oblata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 493 ; leaves oblong or 

 broadly lanceolate acuminate finely nerved, panicles terminal and axillary shorter 

 than the leaves, petals united in a calyptra, berries round or transversely oval 

 size of a cherry. Wight III. ii. 15 ; Ic. t. 622 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bem/. 

 vol. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 67 ; For. Fl. i. 488. S. oblatum, Wall. Cat. 3569. S. pu'l- 

 chellum, Wall Cat. 3566 in part. Jambosa pulchella, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 

 i. 422. E. comosa, Wall Cat. 3566 D ; I.e. 3600 (under E. inoptylla). 



ASSAM, Jenkins; KHASIA MTS., SILHET, CHITTAGONG, PEGU, and MARTABAN to 

 TENASSERIM ; PENANG and SINGAPORE, Wallich. DISTRIB. Yunan. 



A tree; branchlets terete, reddish-brown. Leaves 3-4 in., often with a long 

 slender point, shining above, turning dark when dried ; petiole -f in. Cymes tri- 

 chotomous, on long peduncles. Flowers rather large, sessile. Calyx-tube about in., 

 gradually tapering to the base ; lobes 4 or 5, unequal, persistent. Stamens numerous, 

 long ; anthers with an apiculate connective. 



78. E. laevicaulis, Duthie ; leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate nerves 

 close uniting very near the edge, cymes terminal and axillary short contracted 

 branches ascending, calyx-tube about in. turbinate lobes 5, fruit roundish or 

 flattened at both ends size of a cherry. 



