£ugenia.] Myrtacece. 185 



35. S. insig-nis, Thw. Ennm. 416 (1864). 



C. P. 3677. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 504. 



A small tree, bark pale, twigs cylindrical, compressed, 

 young parts covered with white tomentum, 1. distant, large, 

 6-8 in., oblong-oval, rounded at base, suddenly acuminate, 

 obtuse, glabrous on both sides, pale beneath, lat. veins few, 

 distant, prominent beneath, uniting with the very strongly 

 marked intramarginal vein at some distance from edge ; fl. 

 sessile, about f in. ; cal. densely covered with white hair, segm. 

 broadly oval ; pet. longer than cal.-segm., oblong-oval, ciliate; 

 fruit over 1 in., nearly globular, densely covered with a felt of 

 white hair, capped with cal.-segm. 



Moist low country ; very rare. Galpatta, Reigam Korale, is the 

 source of the C. P. specimens, and I have seen no others. Fl. white. 



Endemic. 



The intramarginal veins are so strongly marked and so distant from 

 the edge that the leaf looks almost 3-nerved. 



36. E. decora, Thw. Emim. 115 (1859). 

 C. P. 3545. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 504. 



A small tree with smooth grey bark, twigs cylindrical, 

 thickened at nodes, young parts glabrous ; 1. 4-5 in., oval, 

 rounded at base, shortly acuminate, obtuse, glabrous on both 

 sides, shining above, paler beneath, lat. veins not close, rather 

 prominent, marginal veins double ; fl. quite sessile, in small 

 axillary clusters ; cal.-segm. rounded, pilose ; fruit depressed, 

 broader than long, f in. wide, 2-seeded. 



Moist low country; very rare. Only found near Galle. Fl. Sept.; 

 white. 



Endemic. 



This is somewhat obscure. I have seen only the C. P. specimens, 

 which are perhaps of two different species, and quite insufficient. The 

 above description applies to those which Thwaites seems to have 

 intended by the name ; the others have almost precisely similar leaves, 

 but the fl. are smaller and on slender pedicels \-\ in. long. There is but 

 a single separate fruit. 



37. E. rotundata, Trim. 



J:. Mooniana, var. ft, Thw. Enum. 114. E. amcena, Thw., var. 

 rotundata, Trim. Syst. Cat. 33. C. P. 2803. 



A much-branched bush with whitish bark, twigs numerous, 

 cylindrical, glabrous ; 1. small, 1-2 (rarely 3) in., usually rotun- 

 date or very broadly oval, rarely narrowly oval, rounded at 

 ba <;, very obtusely acuminate, stiff and rigid, paler and copi- 

 ously dotted beneath, veins inconspicuous, petiole very short, 



