Eugenia.] LIX. MYRTACE&. (J. F. Duthie.) 501 



110. E. floccosa, Bedd. FL Syly. t. 200 ; young branches densely floe- 

 cose, leaves ovate or suborbicular sometimes lanceolate obtuse densely floccose at 

 length glabrous except on the ribs minutely dotted beneath coriaceous, edges 

 re volute, flowers terminal in very short few-flowered cymes or solitary and large, 

 calyx coriaceous densely pilose furnished at the base with 2 large bracteoles, 

 petals exceeding the calyx-lobes white hairy at the back, fruit large size of 

 a pigeon's egg densely woolly crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes. 



S. TINNEVELLY GHATS above Calcad, 3-4000 ft., Beddome. 



A large and beautiful tree. Leaves very thick, 3-5 by 2-3 in. ; nerves quite 

 inconspicuous except in dried specimens, penninerved, with the usual marginal looping 

 or occasionally 3-nerved at the base, the two lateral nerves not prominent ; petiole 

 densely floccose, - in. Flowers about 1 in. diam. Disk large, subglobose, woolly. 



111. E. codyensis, Munro in Wight HI. ii. 13; leaves short-petioled 

 ovate-oblong or obovate tapering towards the base shortly obtusely acuminate, 

 flowers nearly sessile clustered in terminal heads at the extremities of short 

 abortive branches or axillary and solitary or few together, fruit globose 1-2- 



NILGHIRI and KURG MTS., Munro. 



A shrub with stout terete branehlets ; young parts clothed with white pubescence. 

 Leaves 1^-2^ Ly f-lf in., coriaceous, glabrous, shining above ; dots minute, pellucid ; 

 lateral nerves slender, prominent, uniting within the margin; petiole %- in. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate, silky-pubescent ; lobes 4, broad, persistent, ciliate. Petals oblong, 

 twice the length of the calyx. Berries about \ in. in diameter. Judging from the 

 specimen in "Wight's Herbarium it seems to be closely allied to E. elliptica, Lam., of 

 which it is perhaps only a variety ; the leaves are rather longer petioled and the 

 flowers larger. 



Allied to this is E. buxifolia, Lam., a native of the Mauritius. 



112. E. lucida, Lam. Diet. iii. 203; young parts and inflorescence 

 covered with light-coloured cottony pubescence, leaves petioled broadly obovate 

 or nearly orbicular revolute at the edges very coriaceous, flowers large solitary 

 in the axils or collected 3 or 4 together at the ends of the former year's branches 

 each with 2 small subacute bracts, calyx-lobes rounded unequal. Jossinia lucida, 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 237. E. cotinifolia, Jacq. Obs. iii. 3 t. 53 in part. E. hypo- 

 leuca, Thwaites MSS. C.P. 8864 ; ;# 3865; Bedd. FL Sylv. Anal Gen. cxii. 

 Myrtus cotinifolia, Spreng. Syst. ii. 481 in part. M. Oommersonii, Spreng. 

 I. c. 479. 



CEYLON ; Wattekelle Hill, 5000 ft. alt., Thwaites. DISTRIB. Bourbon, Mauritius. 



Leaves 1^-2 by 1-1| in. ; nerves indistinct above, slender beneath and uniting 

 within the margin; petiole about in. Flowers upwards of an inch in diam. Pedicels 

 $ in. or less. Calyx-tube \ in. " Fruit obovate or globose glabrous crowned with 

 the obtuse calyx-lobes " (Decandolle, 1. c.). 



113. E. macrosepala, Duthie ; leaves petioled ovate or oblong-lanceo- 

 late subacute at the base obtusely acuminate or sometimes rounded at each end 

 coriaceous, flowers lateral from leafless axils sessile solitary or in pairs each 

 with 2 linear pilose bracts equalling or exceeding the calyx-tube, calyx-lobes 

 4 long narrowly lanceolate acute exceeding the obtuee petals. 



N. CANARA, Stocks. 



Upper branches stout, terete or compressed at the nodes ; barJc brownish. Leaven 

 S-4^ by 1^-lf in., shining a little above and of a reddish tinge ; nerves inconspicuous 

 above, slender but prominent beneath uniting within the margin. Calyx-lobes clothed 

 with long spreading white hairs. Petals ovate, pilose at the back and ciliate at the 

 margin. Staminifcrous disk not so broad and square as in E. elliptica, Lam. 



