1 80 Myrtacecz. [Eugenia.. 



oval or oblong-oval, tapering to base, acute or subacute at 

 apex, glabrous, not shining, rather thin, light bright green,, 

 lat. veins very numerous, faintly marked, petiole \-^ in.; fl. 

 small, on short ped., cymes about 3 in., lax, pedunculate, with 

 slender divaricate branches, coming off from axils of fallen 1., 

 often at some distance down the branches ; cal. shortly turbi- 

 nate, limb cup-shaped, truncate or with very obscure segm.;, 

 pet. calyptrate, cap not pointed; fruit |-J in., usually ovoid, 

 often lop-sided, crowned with truncate cal.-limb. 



Var. /3, microcarpa, Thw. I. c. Var. caryophyllifolia, Duth. in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. Wight, I c. t. 553. C. P. 1584. 



L. ovate-oval, acuminate, berries smaller, globose. 



Low country, in both wet and especially in dry regions, attaining to 

 3000ft. in former; var. /3 the commoner form. Fl. May-August; white, 

 honey-scented. 



Throughout the Tropics of Asia. 



I do not think this is ever cultivated in Ceylon ; but the fruit, which is 

 generally no bigger than a large pea, is much eaten. We do not appear 

 to have in Ceylon any of the large-fruited sorts found in India. 



The leaves have a pleasant aromatic scent when bruised. Wood 

 reddish-grey, not heavy, moderately hard, durable, much used, often 

 called ' Meni-damba.' 



Jambolifera pedunculata, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 178 (non Vahl) is a form of 

 this with oblong fruit, also figured in Wight, Ic. t. 620 (E. obhisifolia, 

 Roxb.). On the confusion by Linnaeus and subsequent writers between 

 this species and Acronychia laurifolia see under that plant (Pt. I. p. 216). 



25. E. lucida, Lam. Diet. iii. 205 (1789). [Plate XXXVII.] 

 E. hypoleuca, Thwaites in Bedd. For. Man. cxii. (name only). 

 Trim. Syst. Cat. 33. C. P. 3865. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 501. 



A much-branched bush with rough silvery grey bark, 

 twigs cylindrical, compressed, young parts hairy-pubescent ; 

 1. \\-2\ in., rotundate or broadly oval, tapering at base, 

 rounded at apex, usually very strongly revolute at margin, 

 dark green and polished above, purple when young, yellow- 

 white beneath, very stiff and coriaceous, petiole \-% in., stout ; 

 fl. large, \\ in., few, solitary, usually from the base of the 

 young shoot below the 1., peduncle \-\\ in., stiff, pubescent, 

 with 2 small oblong bracts immediately beneath fl. ; cal.- 

 tube shallow, cup-shaped, pubescent outside, segm. very large, 

 orbicular-ovate, finely ciliate, unequal, imbricate ; pet. large, 

 rounded, i-i^in. ; stam. inserted on very broad disk; fruit 

 over 1 in., globular, crowned with large erect cal.-segm., seeds 

 2 or 3, very large, brownish-white. 



Montane zone, 4500-6000 ft., in open sunny places ; rare. Only in 

 the North-eastern mountain mass. Knuckles; Wattakelle ; Kobonilla :. 

 Rangala Hills. Fl. April and September ; white. 



