214 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



agreeable taste. Of others E. macrocarpa (Roxburgh), E. Javanica 

 (Lamarck), E. aquea (Burmann), E. amplexicanlis (Roxburgh), also 

 from Lower India, likewise produce edible fruit of good size, and 

 may perhaps endure a cool clime. 



Eugenia Nhanica, Cambessedes. 



South-Brazil. The berries, which are of the size of plums, are 

 there a table-fruit. 



Eugenia pyriformis, Cambessedes. 



Uvalho do Campo of South-Brazil. Fruit of pear-size and edible. 



Eugenia revoluta, Wight. 



Ceylon, up to heights of 6,000 feet ; berry 1 inch in diameter, 

 edible. 



Eugenia rotundifolia, Wight. 



Ceylon, up to 8,000 feet ; rejoicing therefore in a cool or even cold 

 climate. The fruit of this and the allied E. calophylloides (Wight), 

 which extends to Upper India, edible ; so that of E. Arnottiana 

 (Wight), which tree ascends to 7,000 feet. 



Eugenia Smithii, Poiret. 



From Gippsland to Queensland. A splendid large umbrageous 

 tree, but not of quick growth, and requiring rich soil in river- 

 valleys for its perfect development. The bark contains about 17 per 

 cent, tannin. This fact may give a clue to the recognition of the 

 same tan-principle in the barks of numerous other species of the 

 large genus Eugenia. 



Eugenia suborbicularis, Bentham. 



North-East Australia, in cool mountain-regions. The fruit attains 

 the size of a middling apple the pulp is edible, acidulous, containing 

 red sap, but the seeds are large. 



Eugenia supra-axillaris, Spring. 



The Tata of South-Brazil. Fruit large, edible. 



Eugenia Tierneyana, F. v. Mueller. 



North-Eastern Australia. A tall tree. The red fruit is not large, 

 but produced in good quantity and can be made into a palatable jam 

 [Dallachy]. 



Eugenia uniflora, Linnet (E. Michelii, Lamarck.) 



From extra-tropical South- America extending to the Antilles. A 

 tree of beautiful habit, with edible fruit of cherry-size. Dr. Lorentz 

 mentions also as a sub- tropical Argentine fruit-species E. Mato 



