Eugenia.'] Myrtacece. 183 



By the original descriptions the flowers should be more numerous than in 

 E. bracteata, but there is much confusion in later authors. Further 

 critical examination is required. 



A specimen from Colombo (Ferguson) has much longer leaves, and 

 bears a note stating that it has globular red fruit ' quite different ' from 

 those of ordinary E. bracteata, but it is too incomplete for certain identi- 

 fication. 



The foliage is very like that of a Memecylon, and the Tamils give it 

 the same name as M. umbellatum, with which it often grows. The leaves 

 are aromatic when bruised. Wood greyish-yellow, hard, close-grained. 



30. E. rufo-fulva, Thw. Enum. 416 (1864). 

 C. P. 3835. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 503. 



A moderate-sized tree, bark pale brown or nearly white, 

 young shoots cylindrical, slender, elongated, rufous-pubescent; 

 1. 2\-\\ in., lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute or tapering 

 at base, very long caudate-acuminate, acute at apex, smooth 

 and shining above, densely covered with very fine brownish- 

 red tomentum beneath (becoming glabrous when old), petiole 

 \- 1 in., slender, curved ; fl. small, ped. slender, \-\ in., pubes- 

 cent, 1-3 in leaf-axils ; cal.-segm. longer than tube, oblong, 

 obtuse, tomentose outside ; pet. oblong, obtuse, longer than 

 cal.-segm. ; fruit globular, under \ in., pubescent, crowned 

 with spreading cal.-segm. 



Moist low country ; rare. Gattehatte, near Avisawella ; Reigam 

 Korale ; Nillowe Kande. Fl. March-June. 

 Endemic. 

 Varies with very narrow leaves. 



31. E. phillyraeoides, Trim, injourn. Bot. xxiii. 207 (1885). 



A much-branched dense twiggy shrub, with roughish pale- 

 brown bark, young parts with white hair; 1. very small, barely 

 1 in., numerous, crowded, erect, linear-lanceolate, tapering to 

 base, acuminate, obtuse, margin slightly revolute, dark green 

 above, paler beneath, lat. veins inconspicuous, petiole short ; 

 fl. (not seen) solitary, axillary, peduncle shorter than 1. ; fruit 

 '; r \ in., depressed-globose, flat-topped, crowned by wide sta- 

 mina! disk, and large rather unequal spreading cal.-segm., 

 glabrous when mature fpubescent when young), red. 



Montane zone; very rare. Only found at summit of Kalupahane 

 . Lagalla, East Matale (about 5000 ft.). Not seen in flower. 



Endemic. 



Approaches E. Rottleriana, W. and A., figured (in flower only) in 

 Wight, \< . t. IOO, of the hills Of S. India, with which it requires careful 

 comparison. 



32. E. floccifera, Tkltf. Enum. 115 (1859). 

 C. P. 463. 



FL Ji. Ind ii. 504. 



