80 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay (in Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Leaves obtuse or sab-acute... ... ...<{ 



Leaves more or less acuminate ... ... -{ 



80. E. hrncteolata. 



81. E. venulosa. 



82. E. pseudo-suhtilis. 

 I* 83. E. microcalyx. 



84. E. scoparia. 

 [S5. E. myriantha. 

 fSQ. E. verecunda. 



87. E. pseudo-subtilis 

 VAR. suh-acuminata. 



88.E. Swettenhamiana. 

 ! 89. E. acuminatissima. 



90. E. Kunstleri. 

 I 91. E. pustulata. 



92. E. Koordersiana. 



93. E. simularm. 

 1^94. E. Curtisii. 



Flowers small, numerous, in short much-branched spread- /• 95. E. opercidata. 

 ing cymose panicles mostly from the scars of fallen leaves, 5 96. E. nicoharica. 

 globular or nearly so, narrowed gradually to the base or ' 97. E. Jamholana. 

 abruptly contracted into a short pseudo-stalk. 



1. Eugenia Formosa, Wall. PI. As. Rar. II. 6, t. 108 : Wall. Cat. (in 

 part) 3609. A tree, 20 to 30 feet high : young branches almost terete, 

 with pale bark. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 

 much tapered to the acute apex, sometimes in threes ; the base rounded, 

 slightly cordate ; upper surface pale, olivaceous (when dry), the lower 

 paler ; both quite smooth ; main-nerves 12 to 20 pairs, rather strong, 

 ascending, rather straight, interarching '2 to '3 in. from the edge ; length 

 8 to 12 occasionally to 18 in. ; breadth 3 to 5 in. ; petiole about "2 in. 

 Flowers nhont 2 in. across (excluding the stamens), pale rose-coloured, 

 on pedicels '3 to o in. long, bracteolate near the apex, in fascicles of 

 three (occasionally solitary), usually from tlie branches below the 

 leaves but sometimes terminal. Calyx-tube '6 to '75 in. long, clavate- 

 turbinate, smooth ; the 4 lobes broad, rounded, unequal, "5 in. broad and 

 about half as long. Petals '5 in. long, almost orbicular. Filaments more 

 than 1 in. long, very numerous, spreading. Fruit as large as a small 

 apple, globose, contracted towards the base, crowned at the apex by the 

 spreading calyx-lobes, white, smooth, 2-seeded, the pulp rather scanty. 

 Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 471 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLYI, Pt. 2, 68 ; For. Fl. Brit. Burm. I, 492 ; Wight 111. II, 

 14. Jamhosa formosa^ Walp. Rep. Bot. II, 191 ; Blume Mus. Bot. I, 

 92 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 412. /. mappacea^ Korth. in Ned. 

 Kruidk. Arch. I, 200. E. somarangensis, DC. Prod. Ill, 286. 



Perak : King's Collector 6254 ; Scortechini. 



Only a few specimens of this are to be found from our area in the Herbaria at 

 Kew and Calcutta, and they have all oblong-lanceolate leaves. In British India 

 the form with ovate- oblong leaves ia the commoner. 



