480 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Syzygium. 



W. Ghats, in the Anamalai, Travancore and Tinnevelly 

 Hills, up to 4,000 ft. in evergreen forests. 

 An enormous tree with slender branchlets, caudate leaves, 

 white flowers and purple fruit. Bark smooth, white ; wood 

 dark reddish-brown with yellow patches, used for building 

 in Travancore. Yern. Tarn. Nir naval ; Mai. Kari nyaral. 



11. SYZYGIUM CARYOPHYLLAEUM, Gaertn. ; W. & A. 329. 

 Eugenia caryophyUaea, Wt. ; Wt. Ic. t. 540; F. B. I. ii. 



490. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats from S. Canara southwards, up to 



5,000 ft., especially near streams. 



A small tree with white flowers and black globose fruit . 



Bark smooth, grey ; wood brown, rather soft. Yern. MaL 



Nyara. 



12. SYZYGIUM CALOPHYLLIFOLIUM, Walp. Eugenia calophylli- 

 folia, Wt. ; Wt. Ic. t. 1,000 ; F. B. I. ii. 494. 



W. Ghats, Shola forests of the Nilgiris above 6,000 ft., 

 common and conspicuous. 



A large evergreen tree with a rounded head, small leaves, 

 white flowers and dark purple fruit. Bark thick, brown, 

 rough ; wood reddish-brown, hard and useful for building. 



13. SYZYGIUM PALGHATENSE, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1918, 240. 



W. Ghats, in the Palghat Hills of Malabar at 5,000 ft. 



(Beddome). 



A large tree with conspicuously glandular leaves and long 



calyx-tube. 



14. SYZYGIUM TRAVANCORICUM, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1918, 240. 



W. Coast, in swampy places in the low country of Travan- 

 core, up to 200 ft. (Bourdillon). 



A medium-sized or large tree with long-petioled leaves and 

 small flowers in long-pedunculate corymbose axillary 

 cymes. 



15. SYZYGIUM CHAVARAN, Gamble 11. comb. Eugenia Chavaran, 

 Bourd. For. Trees Trav. 188. 



W. Ghats, evergreen forests of N. Travancore at low 

 elevations (Bourdillon). 



A very large handsome tree with rather large white flowers, 

 usually in axillary cymes, and large closely-nerved leaves. 

 Wood useful, the trunks sometimes hollowed into boats. 

 Yern. Mai. Chavaran. 



