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Malacca : Griffith 2352, Maingay 748, Hervey, Singapore : Ridley 

 8931. Andaman and Nicobar islands (very common). Distrib. — Java, 

 Zollinger, 2nd Journey 808, etc. ; Timor Laut, Forbes 334 ; New Guinea 

 and many of the other islands of the Archipelago. 



Distinguished in the group by its shortly petiolate leaves and pedunculate lax^ 

 racemes which are often terminal. 



VAR. Boxhurghiana, Duthie in Fl. Br. Ind. II, 475 ; leaves almost 

 sessile, cordate and amplexicaul at the base, the apex rounded. E. decora, 

 Wall. Cat. 3608. 



4. Eugenia Jambos, Linn. Sp. PI. 47. A shrub or small glabrous 

 tree : young branches more or less four-angled, pale-brown, rather slender. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, tapering to each end, the 

 apex acuminate (sometimes almost caudate) the base more abruptly 

 narrowed to the petiole ; both surfaces pale -olivaceous when dry ; the 

 main-nerves distinct on the lower, 10 to 14 pairs, slightly curved, 

 ascending, interarching in a rather faint nerve '1 in. inside the edge, 

 the secondary nerves rather distinct, one (sometimes two) between 

 each pair of primaries ; length 4 to 7 in. ; breadth 1 to 1*6 in. ; petiole 25 

 in. Floivers 2*5 to 3 in. in diam., in few-flowered terminal racemes shorter 

 than the leaves, the pedicels 3 to '4 in. long. Galyx-tuhe turbinate, 

 •5 in. lono-- < •'e lobes 4, broad, short, reflexed. Petals much larger than 

 the calyx-lobes, obovate-rotiind, about '5 in. long; filaments 1*5 to 2 in. 

 long, shorter than the style. Frtiit ovoid or globular, 1*5 to 2 in. long, 

 dull-yellow tinged with pink, smooth, endocarp fleshy and edible, 

 crowned by the inflexed calyx-lobes. Seeds one or two. Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 37; Fl. Ind. II, 494; Wall. Cat. 3615; Wight 111. II, 14; 

 Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 474. Brandis For. Fl. 233 ; Kurz 

 in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. (1877) Pt. 2, 69 ; For. Fl. Brit. 

 Burm. I, 495. Jamhosa vulgaris, DC. ; Blume Mus. Bot. I, 93 ; W. 

 & A. Prodr. I, 332 ; Bot. Mag. 3356 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 425 ; 

 Wight Ic. 435. Myrtus Jambos, Kunth ; Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. 

 Arch. I, (1846), 200 ; Blume Bijdr. 1085.— Rumph. Herb. Amb. I, 123 ; 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. I, 27, f. 17. 



Cultivated in most of the provinces : perhaps wild in Perak ; ScortC' 

 chini; Maingay 735. Cultivated also in British India. 



Readily distinguished in this section by its narrow leaves attenuated to each 

 end and few-flowered terminal racemes. 



5. Eugenia malaccensis, Linn. Sp. Plantar. 470. A glabrous tree, 30 

 to 40 feet high ; young branches almost terete (slightly compressed) with 

 pale bark. Leaves coriaceous, with short but distinct petioles, narrowly 

 elliptic- oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, the apex more or less suddenly 

 acute, the base much tapered to the petiole : when dry thje upper 



