Eugenia LI. MYRTACE.E 317 



1. EUGENIA, Linn.: PL Brit. Ind. ii. 470. 



Trees or shrubs, nearly always evergreen ; leaves gland-dotted, with rare 

 exceptions opposite. Fl. usually tetramerous ; inflorescence terminal or lateral, 

 usually cymose but in some species centripetal, racemose. Calyx-tube fre- 

 quently with resin cavities below the surface, articulate with pedicel, two 

 bracteoles frequently at its base, enclosing the two-celled ovary and in most 

 species produced beyond it as a more or less campauulate cup. Calyx segments 

 persistent or deciduous. Petals gland-dotted, either free, expanding, or united 

 into a cap (calyptra). Stamens numerous in several series, inserted on a more 

 or less conspicuous disk at the mouth of calyx-tube, anthers small versatile. 

 Ovules several or many in each cell, placenta in rhe middle of the dissepiment. 

 Ft. a berry, 1- or few-seeded, embryo thick and fleshy with a very short 

 radicle, the cotyledons fleshy, either separate or united in a homogeneous mass. 

 Species 650 tropical and subtropical, in Asia and tropical America, a few in 

 tropical Africa and Australia. 



The species here enumerated are frequently classed under 3 genera : Jamiosa, 'Eugenia 

 and Syzygium. Engler u. Prantl. iii. 7. 78. 



Sect. I. Jambosa, II. Syzygium. Calyx-tube produced beyond ovary, free 

 portion cup-shaped or campanulate. 



A. Fl. large. calvx-tube (from articulation to riini ?,- in. orlonger. (Species 

 1 -27 . 



(a.) Flowers pediceUed. 



a. Base of leaves rounded or cordate. 



1. E. aquea, Burm.; Wight Ic. t. 216, 550; Kurz F. PL i. 494. 

 A hi iil« Hi '-sized tree, glabrous, bark smooth grey, 1. coriaceous, shining, 

 elliptic-oblong, obtuse, narrowed to r lie rounded or slightly cordate base, blade 

 I I'-'in.. petiole stout, generally very short. Fl. white or purplish-pink, in 

 3 9-fld. pedunculate cymes, at the ends of branclilots or from the upper axils, 

 pedicels shorter than r In- 1 in. long calvx-tube with 2 bracteoles at its base. 

 Fr. turbinate, :| 1 in. diam. crow 1 by the persistent calyx-limb and seg- 

 ments. 



Sikkim 1. if!.. Chasi hills(to 1,000 ft.). Cultivated in Burma. Fl. 1L. S.— Ceylon. 



2. E. macrocarpa, Roxb. Cachar, Chittagong. Burma, Upper and Lower, to 8,000 ft. 

 A middle-sized tree, 1. coriaceous, olilnng-lauci'iilate from a rounded or cordate base, 

 Made s -l.'i, petiole stout J in. long, sec. u. distant, joined by marginal veins at a 

 distance front the edge. Fl. scented, white, calyx pink, in a terminal ."> 9-fld. infloi 

 escence, calyx-tube clavate, tree portion a very shallow cup, 1 1J in. long, ribbed when 

 dry. pedicels short, stout. I'r. ei,,i„,„.. t he size of an orange, crowned by the spreading 



Clh \-lobes, s Is lip to 5. 



3. E. formosa, Wall. PL As. Rar. t. 108; Kurz F. PL i. 192. Vern. 

 Thabyi pinbwa, Wabaw, Burm. Upper Burma . 



A middle sized or large tree, entirely glabrous, branchlets almost terete, 

 bark pale grey. I>. chartaceOUS, oblong-lanceolate tapering towards the acute 

 apex, rounded or cordate at the base (the upper ones usually in threes', blade 

 S is. petiole stout. ' in. or shorter. Sec. n. distant, l'i r_' pair, a Few shorter 



intermediate nerves between. Fl. on tl 11 wood, large, sometimes solitary, 



generally in sessil ■ shortly pedunculate tew-fld. cymes, the terminal tl. 



generally opening first, pedicels bracteolate below Mower, ' [ in., calyx and 

 petals purple, calyx-tube broadly turbinate, § in. long. Fr. white, globose 2 in. 

 diam., contracted towards the base, crowned by the spreading calyx-lobes. 



Seeds '_'. 



si kK i in, Terai and outer valleys. \-.am. Chittagong. Burma, Upper and Lower, 

 in evergreen forests along streams. Fl. March May. 4. E. amplexlcauiis, Roxb.; 

 Wight to. t. 608. Chittagong, a large tree, 1. nearly sessile, obtuse, 6-8 bj 8 I in. Fl. 



