1 88 Myrtacece. \Barringtonia. 



Though collected by Moon, he did not name or include it in his 

 Catalogue. C. P. 365 from Medamahanuwara has larger and thicker 

 leaves, and sometimes nearly sessile flowers, and approaches E. rotundata. 



Wood yellow, smooth, hard, durable. From a large-leaved var. called 

 ' Geta-kaha,' S. (found at Haputale), the very hard and heavy black sticks 

 universally carried by Tamil coolies are obtained. They call them 

 Karumbadikambu and Karutamurutukambu, and the black colour is 

 produced by burial in mud for some months. 



E. Michelii, Lam. (Myrhis brasiliana, L., E. zeylanica, Willd. (non 

 Roxb., nee Wight), E. Willdenovii, DC. (non Wight), is occasionally met 

 with in gardens, and known as the ' Brazil cherry,' or ' Rata-jambu.' 

 Linnaeus's name, E. uniflora, which included both this and a form of 

 E. malaccensis, should be abandoned (see Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 142). 

 This is the original species of Eugenia; it is a very ancient introduction 

 to the East from the New World. 



43. E. Thwaitesii, Duth. in Fl. B. Ind. ii. 506 (1879). 

 E. cottanna, Thw. Enum. 416 (non Phil.). C. P. 2802. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 506. 



A tree with whitish bark, twigs cylindrical, young parts 

 pilose ; 1. 3^—5 in., ovate-oval, slightly narrowed at base, cau- 

 date-acuminate, obtuse at apex, glabrous on both sides when 

 mature, lat. veins numerous, rather conspicuous, petiole under 

 \ in., stout; fl. small, on slender ped. f-i in. long, in apparent 

 fascicles (really on suppressed branchlets), fruit about f in., 

 globular, crimson. 



Moist country; very rare. Only from Ambagamuwa. Fl. Jan. 



Endemic. 



3. BARRXNGTONIA,* Forst. 

 Trees, 1. alt., stip. very minute, caducous, fl. in long ra- 

 cemes; cal.-tube adnate to ov., not produced beyond it, segm. 

 2-4; pet. 4 (or 5), imbricate, usually slightly connate at base 

 and adnate to stam., stam. very numerous in several rows, 

 epigynous, connate at base into a thick tube, fil. very long ; 

 ov. inferior, 2-4-celled, with several pendulous ovules in each 

 cell, style long, simple ; fruit fibrous or leathery, indehiscent, 

 1 -celled ; embryo without obvious cotyledons (macropodous) 

 showing on transverse section central and peripheral portions, 

 no endosperm. — Sp. 20 ; 10. in Fl. B. Ind. 



Cal. quite closed in bud, splitting irregularly into 2 

 or 3 segm. 



L. entire 1. B. SPECIOSA. 



L. finely serrate. 



Fruit broadly ovoid 2. B. RACEMOSA. 



Fruit narrowly oblong 3. B. ZEYLANICA. 



Cal. not closed in bud, segm. 4 . . . . 4. B. acutangula. 



* Commemorates the Hon. Daines Barrington, F.R.S. Died 1800. 



