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four, are rounded or angular according to number, and at- 

 tached to one side of the seed cavity. Propagation is usu- 

 ally by seed. The botanical name Phyllocalyx Luschnathianus, 

 Berg, is sometimes used. 



Ohio, (Eugenia malaccensis, L.) (Fig. 41). 



This species is a native of the Malayan Archipelago, whence 

 it has been introduced into other tropical regions. It is now 



the most important eugenia in 

 the Hawaiian flora. Vaughan 

 MacCaughey l says of it : 

 "This beautiful tree was intro- 

 duced by the primitive Ha- 

 waiians and is now abundant 

 in the humid valleys and ra- 

 vines on all the islands. It is 

 distinctly a tree of the lower 

 forest zone, where it forms pure 

 stands, some of which, on the 

 broad valley floors, cover areas- 

 of several hundred acres." 



The tree sometimes reaches 

 60 feet in height. The leaves 

 are elliptic-oblong to oblong- 

 obovate, acute, 6 or 7 inches in 

 FIG. 41. The ohia (Eugenia malac- length, thick, glossy, and dark 



censis), a Malayan fruit little known 

 in the American tropics. The tree is 

 handsome, but the fruit is not of very 



good quality. (X about 



green in color. To quote again 

 MacCaughey : " The flowers are 

 showy clusters of long, spread- 

 ing, bright red stamens, that contrast charmingly with the rich 

 foliage. During the flowering season, in early summer, the 

 shady interior of the tree seems to be filled with a delicate 

 scarlet haze." The fruits are oval to obovate in form, 2 to 3 

 1 Torreya, Dec., 1916. 



