1 74 Myrtacece. {Eugenia.. 



Forests of the montane zone, 4000 to 6000 ft.; rather common. FL 

 April ; white, calyx crimson. 



Endemic. 



The up-country carpenters call the wood of this tree ' Weli-damba,' or 

 ' Hin-damba. J It is softer and more open than that of most species. 



10. B. Gardneri, Duth. in FL B. Ind. ii. 489 (1878). Dambu,* S.. 

 Nir-naval, T. 



Syzygium Gardneri, Thw. Enum. 117. C. P. 2946. 

 FL B. Ind. ii. 489. 



A moderate-sized or large tree, with smooth pale-grey 

 bark, much branched, young twigs cylindrical, often some- 

 what compressed; 1. 3-35 in., oval or broadly oval, acute at 

 base, caudate-acuminate, obtuse, smooth and shining, rather 

 thin, bright apple-green, lat. veins very numerous, fine, con- 

 spicuous, pellucid, petiole f-J in. ; fl. small, numerous, 

 sessile, cymes copious, axillary and terminal, shorter than 1.; 

 cal. campanulate, truncate with obscure segm.; fruit §-• | in., 

 nearly globular and without any crown of cal.-segm. 



Moist region between 2000 and 4000 ft.; common. Fl. July-Sept.;, 

 white. 



Also in Southern India. 



Wood rather hard and heavy, smooth, greyish-yellow. 



11. B. corymbosa, Lam. Encycl. Meth. iii. 199 (1789). Dan, 

 Kin-dan, S. 



Herm. Mus. 3, 14. Burm. Thes. 57. Fl. Zeyl. n. 183. Myrtus cary- 

 ophyllata, L. Sp. PI. 472. Calyptranthes caryophyllata, Pers., Moon Cat.. 

 38. Syzygium caryophyllcEiwi, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 166; Thw. Enum. 117^ 

 C. P. 1583. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 490 (E. caryophyllced). Wight, Ic. t. 540 {Id.). 



A bush or shrubby tree, with smooth grey bark, young 

 twigs slightly compressed, scurfy, orange-brown ; 1. 2.J-3! in., 

 obovate-oval, acute at base, rounded, obtuse or very shortly 

 and bluntly acuminate, glabrous, shining and bright apple- 

 green above, rather pale beneath, lat. veins numerous, fine 

 but rather conspicuous beneath, petiole \ in.; fl. small, 

 numerous, nearly sessile, cymes terminal, corymbose, tricho- 

 tomous, buds ovoid-globose; cal. campanulate, truncate, 

 segm. scarcely perceptible ; pet. calyptrate ; fruit about f in., 

 depressed-globose, inky-purple or nearly black, shining, juicy. 



Low country in both moist and dry regions ; very common, especially 

 in open sandy places. Fl. Feb.-May ; white. 

 Also in Southern India and Borneo. 

 The small black fruit is edible. 



* The name Dambu or Damba is applied to many other species of 

 Eugenia. 



