Eugenia.'] LIX. MYRTACE^. (J. F. Dutliie.) 497 



97. E. malabarica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 199 ; Anal Gen. cvii. ; leaves 

 obovate-spathulate or quite obcordate rarely oblong marginal looping inconspi- 

 cuous, cymes from the old wood below the leaves rarely in the lower axils very- 

 short, flowers numerous very small bracteolate, calyx-tube with 4 indistinct tri- 

 angular lobes, petals opening separately, fruit spherical about in. 



Western Peninsula , WYNAAD, jungles, 2-4000 ft. alt., Beddome. 



A middling-sized tree. Branchlets terete. Leaves 2-5 by 1-2^ in., minutely 

 dotted beneath ; petiole 5-^ in. Cymes about in. Calyx-tube more or less truncate 

 in age, about ^ in. diam. Petals orbicular with a slight claw, pointed, very soon 

 deciduous. 



98. E. cong-lomerata, Duthie ; leaves obovate or oblanceolate rounded 

 at the apex or shortly and obtusely acuminate tapering gradually to the base mar- 

 gins revolute, flowers from the leafless axils in dense sessile or subsessile clusters, 

 calyx-tube broadly campanulate lobes 4 rounded persistent, petals free. 



MALAYAN PENINSULA, Maingay, 745. 



Bark of older branch! ets grey ; upper branchlets su btetragonous. Leaves 3-4 by 

 1-1 in., sometimes subfalcate, coriaceous, dark and shining above, rusty-red beneath, 

 minutely black-dotted ; midrib stout beneath, lateral nerves few, prominent beneath 

 and uniting distinctly in loops within the margin ; petiole about ^ in. Bracts oblong, 

 obtuse. Filaments short, stout. Eesembles No. 3326 of Beccari's Borneo plants, 

 but the flowers are larger and the peduncles longer in the latter. 



ft Petals united. 

 Leaves alternate. 



99. E. alternifolia, Wight III ii. 16 ; Ic. t. 537 ; leaves alternate sub- 

 orbicular thick and coriaceous, cymes lateral longish-peduncled corymbose dense 

 sometimes congested near the apex of year-old branches, fruit subspherical size of 

 a cherry. Sedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 198. 



KURNOOL, CTJDDAPAH, and N. ARCOT districts, Leddome ; BALAGHAUT, Wight. 

 ASSAM, Nagari Hills. 



A large tree. Branchlets terete. Leaves 3-8 in., rounded at the apex or rather 

 suddenly obtusely acuminate, dark green and shining above paler beneath, minutely 

 dotted ; primary nerves numerous, uniting close within the margin ; petiole 1 in. or 

 more. Flowers yellowish-white, sweet-scented. Calyx viscid and shining, entire or 

 with 4 very minute teeth. Petals calyptrate. 



Leaves opposite. 



100. E. tet rag-on a, Wight III. ii. 16 ; branchlets stout acutely 4-gonous, 

 leaves ovate-oblong or nearly oval thick and coriaceous, lateral and marginal 

 nerves very prominent beneath, cymes from the lower leafless axils shorter than 

 the leaves, fruit globose size of a large pea. Syzygium tetragonum, Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 66 ; For. Fl. i. 484 ; Watt. Cat. 3550. 

 S. ficifolium, Wall. Cat. 3558. S. rameum, Wall. Cat. 3595. 



SIKKIM, J. D. H. ; BHOTAN, Griffith. KHASIA Mxs., J. D. H. $ T. T. SELHET, 

 Wallich. AVA, Kurz. DISTRIB. Yunan. 



A large tree ; branchlets with the angles often winged. Leaves 5-6 by 2 in., 

 attenuated at each end, dots minute but not pellucid ; petiole about in. Calyx-tube 

 narrow below, suddenly enlarging at the throat ; lobes small, rounded. Petals calyp- 

 trate. The flowers are sweet-scented according to Wallich. 



The branchlets are not so acutely 4-gonous in Wallich's S. ficifolium and S. rameum, 

 and the leaves of the former are broader. 



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