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Eacemes simple, slender, lateral or axillary ; calyx-base filiform and pediccl-likc, the 



true pedicels long and filiform ; leaves membranous, E. Eurzii. 



X X Calyx an inch long or longer. 

 Leaves large, almost sessile, cordate or rounded at the base ; corymbs lateral and ter- 

 minal, E. formosa. 



* * Calyx-lobes in fruit incurved or inflexcd. 

 X Flowers sessile or nearly so. 

 Leaves cordate or rounded at the base, the petiole very short and thick ; corymbs ter- 

 minal, , E. macrocarpa. 



Leaves sessile with a cordate base, blunt ; branchlets white, terete ; corymbs small^ 



lateral, R. amplexicaulis. 



Leaves acuminate at both ends ; panicle cluster -like reduced and lateral, 



. . E. Malaccensis* 

 X X Flowers truly or spuriously pedicelled. 

 + Leaves opposite. 



t Leaves rounded at the base. Fruits obversely turbinate, 

 waxy, white or rose-coloured, 

 Branchlets usually 4-cornered and often wingedly so, white or pale rose-coloured ; leaves 

 acuminate, the intramarginal nerve as strong as the lateral nerves themselves, 



. . E. aqiiea. 

 Branchlets terete, brown ; leaves bluntish, the intramarginal nerve faint and obscure, 



. . E. Javanica, 

 t t Leaves narrow, acute at the base, petioled. 



Berries almost globular or ovoid, dull-yellow, E. Jamhos. 



+ + Leaves whorled by threes, narrow, obtuse at the base. 

 Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, almost sessile ; petals 4 — 16, E. polypetala. 



1. E. CLAVIFLORA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 488 j Wight Icon. t. 606. 

 Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans ; also 



Tenasserim and Chittagong. — Fr. Febr. 



2. E. LEPTANTHA, Wight 111. II. 15 and Icon. t. 528. {Syzygmm 

 sp., Griff. Not. Dicot. 654). 



Hab. Frequent in the tropical forests along the eastern and southern 

 slopes of the Pegu Yomah, and from Tenasserim to the Andamans. — Fl. 

 Febr. ; Fr. Apr., May. 



3. E. GEATA, Wall. Cat. 3586 ; Wight 111. II. 15. 

 Hab. Tenasserim, apparently frequent. — Fl. Jan., March. 



4. E. Zetlanica, Wight 111. II. 14. and Icon. t. 73, non Eoxb. ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 202. {Jamhosa Iracteata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 437). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans ; also 

 Tenasserim. — Fl. HS. 



5. E. CONTEACTA, Wall. Cat. 3602. 



Hab. Frequent in the stony or rocky bed of choungs in tropical for- 

 ests, from Martaban down to Tenasserim. — Fl. March, Apr. 



The Martaban specimens dry blackish and have the net-venation less 

 prominent. They may possibly form a large and long-leaved variety of E. 

 cuneata, Wall. Cat. 3598. 

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