Syzygium.'] MYRTACEAE. 475 



10. JAMBOSA BEDDOMEI, Gamble n. comb. Eugenia Beddomei, 

 Duthie in F. B. I. ii. 476. 



W. Ghats, hills above Trichnagudi, S. Tinnevelly, at 4,000- 

 5,000 ft. (Beddome). 



A large tree with characteristic very coriaceous leaves and 

 flowers in subterminal corymbs. 



4. Syzygium, Gaertn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, glabrous, often 

 pellucid-dotted. Flowers small, in terminal axillary or lateral 

 cymes, usually corymbose ; bracteoles small deciduous or 0. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate or funnel-shaped, the limb 4- rarely 5-lobed ; 

 no thickened stamina! disk. Petals 4-5, rounded, concave, usually 

 falling off as a calyptrate lid, sometimes singly. Stamens very 

 numerous, free, bent inwards at the middle when in bud. Ovary 

 2-celled, with several ovules in each cell ; style 1 ; stigma simple. 

 Fruit a 1-celled, 1- or few-seeded* berry, globose pyriform or 

 oblong, crowned by the calyx-limb. Seeds globose ; cotyledons 

 fleshy ; radicle small, concealed between the cotyledons. 



Cymes terminal and axillary, rarely from leafless axils : 

 Petals usually free, though deciduous : 



Calyx-tube short, turbinate ; leaves coriaceous, the nerves close 



together : 



Leaves with petioles - 5 in. long, elliptic, caudate-acuminate at 

 apex, acute at base, olive-green when dry, 2-3 in. long, 1-1*5 in. 

 broad ; flowers in dense cymes of umbellules, the branches 

 tetragonus, buds '2 in. long; fruit oblong, *5 in. long 



1. Arnottianum. 



Leaves with petioles about '5 in. long, oblanceolate, obtuse at 

 apex, cuneate at base, purplish when dry, '75-1*25 in. long, *5 in. 

 broad ; flowers in terminal corymbose cymes of umbellules, the 



branches tetragonous, buds '1 in. long 2. Myhendrae. 



Leaves sessile, ovate, obtusely acute at apex, cordate at base, 

 nearly black when dry, r5-2'5 in. long, 1-1'25 in. broad; 

 flowers in corymbs of umbellules 2' 5 in. long, the branches 

 tetragonous, buds '1 in. long 3. Benthamianum 



Calyx-tube elongate, funnel-shaped ; leaves chartaceous or 



coriaceous, the nerves not always close together : 



Flowers usually in short rather few-flowered axillary racemes ; 

 calyx-tube '3-1 in. long ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 

 acute to long-acuminate at apex, 3-5 in. long, 1-1 '5 in. broad, 



