T76 Myrtacecz. {Eugenia. 



Moist and intermediate low country to 3000 ft.; rather common. Fl. 

 April-June ; white. 



Endemic. 



Wight gave Moon's name sylvestris to this in error ; Moon's plant is 

 E. aquea, as Wight's description ' copied from Moon's notes ' shows ; 

 Tout Wight's figure represents the present species, and there is thus no 

 need to alter the accepted nomenclature. 



Wood reddish-grey, smooth, durable. 



15. E. assimilis, Dtith. in Fl. B. Ind. ii. 493 (1878). 

 Sysygium assimile, Thw. Enum. 116. C. P. 46, 2449. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 493. 



A moderate-sized tree, twigs stout, sometimes subquad- 

 rangular ; 1. variable, ii-5 in., oval or broadly oval or 

 obovate-oval, tapering to base, more or less acuminate, 

 obtuse and often twisted at apex, margin often revolute, 

 stiffly coriaceous, lat. veins numerous, rather conspicuous, 

 petiole ^-| in., stout ; fl. rather large, \ in., sessile, cymes on 

 stout peduncles, crowded, mostly terminal ; cal.-tube cup- 

 shaped ; pet. usually calyptrate ; fruit |-§ in., globose, green, 

 capped with large cal.-segm. 



Moist region, from low country up to 6000 ft.; common. Fl. March, 

 April ; cream-coloured. 



Endemic. 



Distinguished from E. sylvestris by its much larger flowers and more 

 prominent lateral leaf-veins. 



Very variable in size and shape of leaf, and possibly more than one 

 species are included under the name. C. P. 2449 (from Hunasgiriya) has 

 almost rotund 1., and in specimens from Dimbula they are narrowly 

 oblong-lanceolate. This is the tree to which the name 'Damba' seems 

 most usually applied by wood-cutters in the hill districts ; the wood is 

 much used. 



16. E. cordifolia, Wight, 111. ii. 16 (1850). 



Herm. Mus. 24. Fl. Zeyl. n. 184. Myrttcs andros&moides, L. Sp. PI. 

 472. Calyptranthes cordifolia, Moon Cat. 39. Syzygium cordifolium, 

 Thw. Enum. 116. E. androstzmoides, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 107. 

 C P. 350, 2622. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 491. Wight, Ic. t. 544. 



A moderate-sized tree, twigs very stout, cylindrical, 

 glabrous ; 1. very large, 4-8 in., sessile, very broadly oval, 

 cordate and somewhat amplexicaul at base, rounded or very 

 shortly and bluntly acuminate at apex, often much re- 

 volute at margin, thick and leathery, shining above, mid- 

 rib depressed above, very prominent beneath, lat. veins 

 numerous, conspicuous ; fl. nearly sessile, rather large, few, 

 cymes terminal and axillary, usually much shorter than 1.; 

 cal.-tube shortly turbinate, much expanded at mouth, thick, 

 segm. broadly triangular, obtuse ; pet calyptrate ; fruit large, 



