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greatly in demand throughout the Sircy subdivision of North Kanara 

 for building, purposes. This tree is pretty common in evergreen or on 

 the borders of evergreen forests in the southern parts of North Kanara, 

 it comes near E. lissophylla, Thw., and could not be matched at K.ew. 



Eugenia kanarensis, Talb., sp. nov. Herb. No. 3552. 



A very large, glabrous, evergreen tree with smooth, white, terete 

 branchlets. Leaves ovate, long or shortly acuminate, acute at the base, 

 thin, shining, minutely gland-dotted ; blade 4-2 by '75 — 1*5 in.; petiole 

 '5 in. long, nerves numerous, fine, distinct, anastomosing just within the 

 margin in a fine line. Flowers small, in open, spreading, axillary or 

 terminal corymbs, shorter than the leaves, cyme branches slender. Buds 

 small, *09 in. in diameter, globose. Calyx elongate, turbinate, broad at 

 the top, narrowed at the base into a short pedicel, scarcely 4-5-lobed or 

 truncate. Petals free or slightly cohering, orbicular. Fruit not seem 



A large smooth-barked tree, found on the Gairsoppah Ghat above 

 Mulamune at an elevation of about 2,000 ft. The following note about 

 this tree was received from Kew. " This is not E. cymosa, Lam., but 

 is probably identical with a specimen collected by Bourdillon in Travan- 

 core and named Eugenia sp. near E. Gardneri." 



Eugenia memecylifolia, Talb., sp. nov. Herb. No. 3127. 



A small, evergreen tree, leaves ovate, bluntly acuminate, coriaceous, 

 glandular dotted, shortly petioled ; blade 1"5 -2 by 1-1*5 in. • petiole 

 •25-*4 in. long. Flowers white, sessile or subsessile, '5 in. across, solitary 

 or 2-several fascicled in the leaf axils. Bracts 2, broad-ovate, small, 

 thick, leathery, tomentose when young. Calyx lobes 4, ovate, imbricate, 

 tomentose, oiliate on the margins, glandular dotted. Petals 4 spreading. 

 Staminal disk broad, enlarged. Style simple. Fruit white, succulent, 

 irregularly globose, '75-1 in. in diameter. Seeds 1-2, globose, flattened 

 on one side, *5 in. in diameter, glabrous ; episperm crustaceous, 

 mottled. In quite ripe fruits the seeds lie loose in the swollen, succulent, 

 white pericarp. 



A small tree or large shrub with smooth bark and leaves like those of 

 some forms of Memecylon edule^ gregarious in the sholas of the higher 

 Supa Ghats of North Kanara at an elevation of about 3,400 feet. This 

 species is allied to E. Mooniana, Wgt., but differs m habit, larger 

 flowers, and the^quite- distinct -fruit. 



