Eugenia.~\ LIX. MYRTACE^E. (J. F. Duthie.) 493 



MALACCA, Maingay, 753-2. 



Branchlets terete, polished. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1^ in., chocolate-coloured and shining 

 above, rusty -red beneath when dry ; petiole in. Calyx-lobes distant. Style long, 

 persistent. Allied to E. oblata, but with smoother branchlets and narrower more 

 contracted inflorescence. 



79. E. sylvestris, Moon in Wight III. ii. 15 ; Ic. t. 532 ; leaves glabrous 

 from lanceolate with an obtuse point to obovate or spathulate obtuse coriaceous, 

 cymes corymbose crowded terminal or from the extreme axils on long peduncles, 

 flowers small, calyx ^ in., fruit spherical black-purple. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. 

 Gen. cvii. Syzygium sylvestre, Thwaites Enum. 116. Calyptranthes Jambo- 

 lana, Moon Cat. p. 39. 



CEYLON ; common up to an elevation of 3000 ft., Walker, Thwaites. 



A very large tree ; branchlets terete. Leaves about 4 by l^-2 in., shining above, 

 rusty-coloured beneath, and minutely and densely punctate, closely nerved, the 

 lateral nerves horizontal and uniting close within the margin, margins somewhat 

 revolute ; petiole |-f in. In Wight's figure the leaves are drawn too acute. 



80. E. assimilis, Thwaites Enum. 116 (Syzygium) ; leaves petioled 

 ovate-lanceolate or obovate more or less abruptly acuminate narrow at the base 

 rarely rounded, cymes crowded at the ends of the branchlets half as long as 

 the leaves, berries spherical. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. cvii. 



CEYLON ; up to alt. 5000 ft., Thwaites. 



A moderate-sized tree. Leaves 2-5 by 1^2 in. ; petiole ^-nearly ^ in. Peduncles 

 oLtusely 4-sided. Flowers rather large, about | in. in diam. Petals falling in one 

 piece. Differs from E. Arnottiana in the larger leaves and flowers, the united petals, 

 and in the shape of the fruit; the nervation of the leaves is less close, and the 

 marginal nerve is more distant from the edge. A variety of this with larger leaved 

 and flowers is also found in Ceylon. 



81. E. Neesiana, Wight III. ii. 15; Ic. t. 533; leaves nearly sessile 

 oblong-lanceolate obtusely acuminate subcoriaceous pellucid-punctate, cymes 

 terminal and from the upper axils laxly corymbose, berry subglobose. Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. cvii. Syzygium Neesianum, Arn. in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 

 xviii. 355 (1836) : Thwaites Enum. 117. Calyptranthes cordifolia, Moon Cat. 



CEYLON ; up to 3000 ft. alt., Thwaites, Gardner. 



A good-sized tree. . Branchlets terete. Leaves 3-4 by ]-l| in. Pedicels half the 

 length of the shortly turbinate calyx. Flowers small. Petals free or falling in one 

 piece. Berry f in., crowned with the circular calyx-throat and the incurved acute 

 lobes. 



82. E. microcalyx, Duthie ; leaves nearly sessile ovate or elliptic-ob- 

 ovate obtuse or shortly acuminate polished above nerves faintly impressed above 

 prominent beneath, cymes terminal and axillary often exceeding the leaves, 

 bracts small acute persistent, flowers very small, calyx-tube short subcylindrical 

 ^ in. or less lobes 4 distant subacute nearly equal, petals united. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay, 727 & 731. DISTEIB. Borneo?. 



Branchlets subterete. Leaves 2-4| by 1^-2 5- in., dark above when dried, reddish 

 beneath ; lateral nerves uniting some way within the margin. Bracts often in threes. 

 In Maingay's No. 727 the leaves are less distinctly nerved, the lateral nerves 

 faintly unite close within the margin, and the flowers are rather smaller. No. 3354 

 of Beccari's Borneo may perhaps be referred to this species. Habit of E. olivifolia. 



