506 LIX. MYRTACEJE. (J. F. Duthie.) [Eugenia.. 



nate thickly coriaceous linear obtuse nerves inconspicuous, peduncles axillary 

 solitary shorter than the leaves 1-flowered, fruit size of large grain of pepper. 



Banks of rivers, Asamboo Hills, TRAVANCORE, 4-5000 ft. alt. 



A small tree, much branched and very dense. Leaves |-^ by -|- in., bright red, 

 quite glabrous when young, prominently black-dotted ; petiole 1 in. I have seen no- 

 specimens. 



130. E. Thwaitesii, Duthie ; young parts pilose, leaves shortly petioled 

 firm ovate obtuse rather abruptly acuminate subacute at the base, pedicels axil- 

 lary fasciculate twice as long as the petioles, flowers small, berry spherical gla- 

 brous shining. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. cxii. E. concinna, Thwaites JEnum. 

 416 ; not of Phil, in Linnaa xxviii. 640 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. cxii. 



CEYLON, Ambagamowa District, Thwaites. 



A tree ; branchlets terete. Leaves sparingly pilose, at length glabrous, 3-5 by 

 H-^2 in. ; petiole nearly in. Pedicels about in. or more. Calyx-lobes unequal. 

 Petals ciliate, downy outside. Berries red, about ^ in. in diameter. 



131. E. sing- amp attiana, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. 65. t. 273; leaves 

 ovate or ovate-oblong retuse or subacute subcordate at the base coriaceous deep 

 green above very pale beneath quite glabrous, flowers white in very short ter- 

 minal crowded racemes, calyx and bracts slightly pubescent. 



SINGAMPATTY HILLS, TINNEVELLY GHATS, moist forests, alt. 3000 ft., Btddome. 



A small dense tree. Leaves about 3 by 1^-2 in. ; primary nerves numerous, 

 forming a continuous looping one near the margin. Flowers about in. across. 

 Petals prominently nerved. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



E. CAEYOPHYLLATA, Wittd. (the Clove-tree) is a native of the Molucca Islands, 

 and not indigenous in India. 



E. SP. (No. 2420 of Griffith's Herbarium) is too imperfect for description. 



E. PULCHELLA, Soxb. is a native of the Molucca Islands. 



E. WYNAADENSIS, Bedd. in Mad. Lit. Soc. Journ. ex Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 35, t. 161 ; Fl. 

 Sylv. Anal. Gen. ex. ; young parts and inflorescence densely fulvo-tomentose, leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate with a long blunt acumen quite glabrous on both surfaces when 

 old, peduncles supra -axillary, calyx-lobes lanceolate acuminate a little longer than 

 the corolla, bracts 2 linear much longer than the flowers, stamens inserted round 

 the edge of the disk, ovary 2-celled, ovules pendulous from the apex about 4 in each 

 cell. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Wynaad, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beddome. 



A small tree or shrub. Leaves 3-3 by 1-1^ in., rather thin ; lateral nerves indis- 

 tinct above, slender beneath and uniting into a continuous one within the margin ;. 

 petiole j- in. Peduncles ^ in. Fruit ?. This is probably, as Col. Beddome sug- 

 gests, the type of a new genus intermediate between Pimento, and Eitgenia. The- 

 materials at my disposal are too incomplete for the preparation of a proper generic- 

 description. The above is compiled from Col. Beddome's description of the plant. 



STJBTBIBE BARRINGTONIEJE. (By 0. B. Clarke.) 



9. BARRINGTONIA, Forst. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ends of the branches, entire or 

 slightly crenate-serrate, pinnate-nerved, not dotted. Flowers in elongated ter- 

 minal and lateral racemes, less often in interrupted spikes ; bracts small, deci- 



