482 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Syzygium. 



the latter in cultivation oblong and edible, good in tarts 

 and puddings, in a wild state usually small and more or 

 less globose. Bark smooth, light grey ; wood hard, reddish- 

 grey, useful for building and agricultural purposes. Yern. 

 Hind. Jaman ; Ur. Jamo ; Tel. Neredu ; Tarn. Naval ; Kan. 

 Narala ; Mai. Naga. 



var. axillare, leaves thin, obovate, abruptly acuminate ; flowers 

 small, in axillary or lateral cymes ; fruit globose, *2 in. in 

 diam. 



"W. Ghats, lower hills of Travancore, in evergreen forests 

 (Bourdillon). 



21. SYZYGIUM HEYNEANUM, Wall. Eugenia Heyneana, Duthie 

 in Fl. Br. Ind. ii. 500. E. salicifolia, Grab. ; Wt. Ic. t. 539. 

 N. Circars and Deccan, in river-beds and along streams, 

 westwards to Coorg, also in S. Travancore. 

 A large shrub or small tree with white flowers and narrow 

 leaves. 



5. Eugenia, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, pellucid-dotted. 

 Flowers moderate-sized, solitary or in fascicles or short cymes, 

 axillary or terminal ; bracteoles 2, below the calyx-tube, usually 

 persistent. Calyx-tube nearly globose, not produced beyond the 

 ovary, the limb of 4, rarely 5, persistent lobes ; staminal disk, if 

 present, broad. Petals 4, rarely 5, distinct. Stamens numerous, 

 distinct. Ovary 2-celled, the cells often again divided by false 

 partitions, ovules several in each cell ; style slender ; stigma 

 simple. Fruit a nearly globose, 1- or 2-celled berry, crowned 

 with the calyx-lobes. Seeds 1-2, large ; cotyledons thick, partially 

 combined ; radicle very minute, scarcely distinguishable. 

 Young parts and inflorescence fulvous- or silvery-pubescent : 

 Staminal disk broad : 



Leaves large, elliptic or obovate or suborbicular, very coriaceous, 

 3-5 in. long, 2-3*5 in. broad, floccose near the base when young 

 like the innovations ; flowers large, tawny- velvety, about 1 in. in 

 diam., solitary or in short few-flowered terminal cymes ; fruit 



about '5 in. in diam., densely tomentose 1. floccosa. 



Leaves usually under 3 in. long : 



Flowers on fairly long pedicels ; leaves coriaceous : 



Pedicels solitary, '5-1 in. long, axillary or lateral among the 

 leaves ; leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, 1-2 in. long, '75 in. broad, 



