.Eugenia.] Myrtacecz. 1 8 1 



Also found in Mauritius and Bourbon, but nowhere in Asia. 



The fruits are ripe at the same time as the flowers are expanded ; 

 they are precisely like small rosy-cheeked apples. The flowers are 

 handsome, and the largest in the genus. 



I follow the Fl. B. Ind. in referring this to E. hicida, but Lamarck 

 describes his plant as having sessile flowers. 



26. E. Haeckeliana,* Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 207 (1885). 



A large bush or small tree, bark reddish, young shoots 

 cylindrical compressed, floccose with fulvous tomentum ; 

 1. large, 4-6 in., oblong-ovate, more or less cordate at base, 

 subacute at apex, margin somewhat undulate, when young 

 densely clothed on both sides with yellow wool which wears 

 off with age leaving adult 1. quite glabrous above and slightly 

 floccose near midrib beneath, lat. veins rather distant, pro- 

 minent, petiole very short, stout; fl. large, i^in., solitary, on 

 short, stout fulvous-woolly ped. with two lanceolate acute 

 bracts at summit, coming off from axils of two opposite bracts 

 (scale-leaves) at base of shoots below the new 1. ; cal.-tube 

 campanulate-turbinate, as long as ped., densely fulvous-hairy, 

 segm. large, ovate, subacute, somewhat recurved ; pet. rather 

 longer than cal.-segm., oval ; staminal disk large, square, 

 densely hairy ; fruit (not seen ripe) globose, crowned by 

 erect cal.-segm. 



Moist low country ; very rare. Only found among rocks by the sea- 

 shore at Weligama in the extreme south of the island. Fl. Dec; pinkish- 

 white. 



Endemic. 



The leaves have a very strong midrib, which is usually somewhat 

 curved, and the leaf is often stiffly conduplicate. 



27. E. terpnophylla, Thw. Enum. 114 (1859). 

 C. P. 2623. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 503. Bedd. Ic. t. 283. 



A moderate-sized tree, branchlcts slender, cylindrical, 

 young parts with ferrugineous tomentum ; 1. 3-4 in., varying 

 from narrowly lanceolate to broadly oval, acute at base, 

 caudate-acuminate, obtuse at apex, glabrous, thin, lat. veins 

 few, fine, conspicuous beneath, uniting at a considerable 

 distance within the margin, petiole J-f in.; fl. on very short 

 rusty-pubescent ped., solitary or in small axillary clusters; 

 cal.-tube turbinate, rusty-pubescent, segm. large, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse ; pet rather longer than cal.-segm., oblong, obtuse ; 

 fruit rather over ;/ in., globose, crowned with spreading cal.- 

 segm., rusty-pubescent when young. 



incijiorates I'rof. Ernst Haeckel of Jena, who spent six weeks 

 at \Veli;;ama shortly before I collected this plant there. 



