Eugenia."] LIX. MYRTACEJ;. (J. F. Duthie.) 505 



ringly clothed with adpressed hairs, the lobes large unequal rounded and ciliate, the 

 .petioles are glandular and ciliate at the edges. 



ft Flowers pedicetted. 



126. IS. amoena, Thwaites Enum. 114 ; leaves sessile ovate-lanceolate acu- 

 minate cordate at the base or subamplexicaul glabrous coriaceous, flowers often 

 terminal subfasciculate, pedicels much shorter than the leaves. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 Anal. Gen. cxi. E. Mooniana, Wight, var. /3., Thwaites Enum. 114. 



CEYLON, Kokool Corle and Delosbage District, up to 1500 ft., Thwaites. 



A small tree; branchlets terete. Leaves 2-6 by l-2 in. ; nerves inconspicuous 

 above, more prominent beneath and uniting in a distinct marginal nerve with often a 

 second fainter one nearer the edge. Pedicels \-^ in. Bracts ovate, acute. Petals 4, 

 oblong, white, about in. in length, longer than the roundish calyx-lobes. Some of 

 Mr. Thwaites' specimens, and which he considers to be merely a state of this species, 

 liave the leaves much thinner, broader at the base, and with rather different nervation, 

 the pedicels are shorter, and the calyx-lobes sometimes acute. 



127. E. Blooniana, Wight 111. ii. 13 ; Ic. ii. 551 ; not of Gardner in 

 Hook. Journ. of Sot. ii. 352 (1843) ; shrubby, glabrous or the young shoots 

 puberulous, leaves short-petioled ovate acuminate tapering at the base, peduncles 

 axillary solitary or 2 together 1-flowered, flowers small, calyx-tube ventricose 

 oblong, lobes 4 reflexed pointed, fruit globose or oblong size of cherry. 

 Thwaites Enum. 114 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. ex. 



Courtallum, Wight : NILGHIRI HILLS, Hb. Hohcnacker ; SEVAGHEBRY HILLS, 

 Wight ; CONCAN, Stocks ; CEYLON, up to 4000 ft., Thwaites. 



A most variable species in the shape of the leaves and the length of the petioles 

 and flower-stalks. Leaves \\-ty by ^-\\ in. ; acumen shortand obtuse, or prolonged to 

 a fine point. Pedicels about in., axillary or from the old wood below. It approaches 

 E. uniflora, but the leaves are thicker and the pedicels are less slender. Col. Bed- 

 dome says (1. c.) "I have another species allied to this which may prove to be new 

 {specimens imperfect) the peduncles are several-flowered." 



VAR. gracilis ; leaves longer, fruit oblong. E. gracilis, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxv. 217 ; Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. ex. Anamallay Hills. 



E.- UNIFLORA, Linn.; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 441 ; leaves nearly sessile ovate 

 sublanceolate glabrous rather thin and pellucid-punctate, pedicels axillary usually 

 solitary and 1-flowered shorter than the leaves, calyx-lobes 4 reflexed, berries 

 globose, torulose. E. Willclenowii, DC. Prodr. iii. 265; Sprcng. Syst. ii. 480 

 (Myrtits) ; Wall. Cat. 3623. Syzyg. Michelii, Lam. Diet. iii. 203 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 

 263. Myrtus braziliana, Linn. Sp. PL 471. Plinia rubra, Linn. Mant. 243. P. 

 pedunculata, Linn.f. Suppl. 253. E. zeylanica, Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 963. 



A native of S. America, becoming naturalised in_ Ceylon and parts of India. 



VAR. subcordata; leaves slightly cordate at the base. W. $ A. Prodr. i. 331 ; 

 Wight III. ii. 13. 



128. E. mabaeoides, Wight III. ii. 13 ; shrubby, leaves short-petioled 

 obovate-spathulate rigid glabrous shining above densely glandular, flowers on 

 short pedicels axillary solitary or clustered on leafless branches, calyx-tube 

 ventricose, limb 4-parted, berry spherical size of small cherry. Thivaites Enum. 

 114 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. cxi. 



CEYLON ; Central Provinces 4-7000 ft. alt., Moon, Gardner, Thwaites. 



A shrub ; much branched. Leaves resembling those of Maba buxifolia, %-2 by 



129. E. microphylla, Bedd. FL Sylv. Anal. Gen. ex. ; glabrous in all 

 its parts, young branches angled and winged, leaves opposite occasionally alter- 



