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connected throughout their whole length by curving loops ; length 

 2*75 to '4 in.; breadth 1*1 to 1'75 in.; petioles '25 to '35 in. Panicles 

 terminal and from the upper leaf-axils, shortly pedunculate, lax, longer 

 than the leaves ; branches numerous divaricate, 4-aDgled, the younger 

 also compressed. Flowers '4 or -5 in. long (including the stamens), 

 sessile in twos or threes at the apices of the branchlets, the buds clavate. 

 Calyx narrowly funnel-shaped, gradually tapering to the base, striate ; 

 the mouth with 4 rather deep, broad, rounded, concave lobes. Petals 4i, 

 orbicular, reflexed. Fruit ovoid, crowned by the thick, short, wide, 

 4-toothed calyx, black and shining when ripe, one-seeded, not pulpy, 

 •3 in. long and '2 in. in diam. E. corymhosa^ Wall. Cat. 3566 F. Jambosa 

 lineata, DC. Prod. Ill, 287 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Ft. 1, 428. Glavimyrtus 

 lineatus, Blume Mus. Bot. I, 116. Myrtus lineata, Blume Bijdr. 1087. 



In all the provinces except the Nicobar and Andaman Islands : 

 common. Distrib. — The Malayan Archipelago. 



A widely distributed species and varying as to size of leaf and also of flower-bud. 

 In some specimens some of the nerves are of a dark colour on the lower surface. 

 This is often confused with E. ruhricimliSy Miq., which is itself a somewhat doubtful 

 species. 



38. Eugenia CYMOSA, Lamk. Diet. Ill, 109 (wo^ of jBoa;6.). A shrub 

 or small tree ; young branches as thick as a crow-quill, terete, pale. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, (narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate in VAR. concinna)i caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate ; both 

 surfaces when dry brown, the upper tinged with olivaceous, the numer- 

 ous nerves and reticulations distinct on the lower less so on the upper ; 

 length 2 to 3 in. ; breadth 1 to 1*5 in. ; petiole '15 to '3 in. Panicles 

 numerous, axillary and terminal, an inch or two in length, the terminal 

 twice as long, lax, the branches few, spreading, slender, compressed, with 

 3 or 4 flowers at their apices. Flowers sessile, white, '35 in. long (includ- 

 ing the stamens). Galyx campanulate, abruptly contracted into a pseudo- 

 stalk, the mouth with 4 small triangular lobes. Petals 4, orbicular, 

 free. Fruit almost globular, the size of a pea, blueish-black, pulpy, 1- 

 or 2-seeded, (if 2-seeded transversely oblong in shape). Wight 111. II, 

 17; Ic. t. 555; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI, Ft. 2, 67; For. 

 Fl. I, 486. Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 482. Syz, caudatum, 

 Wall. Cat. 3591. S. vimineum, Wall. Cat. 3533?. S. concinnum, Wall. 

 Cat. 3582. S. nelitricarpum, T. & B. in. Nat. Tidsch. Ned. Ind. XXV. 

 S, cymosum, DC. Prodr. Ill, 259 ; Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. I, 

 202 ?, E. nigrescens, Poir. Suppl. Ill, 123 ?. E. rhodomelea, Commers. 

 in DC. Prodr. I.e. Jamhosa tenuicuspis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 481. 

 Myrtus cymosa, Spreng. ; Blume Bijdr. 1086. 



In all the provinces. Distrib.— Burma, Sylhet and Assam, Java. 



