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46. Eugenia caudata, King. A glabrous bush or small tree ; 

 young branches very slender, sub-terete, the bark pale-grey or brown. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acumin- 

 ate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces pale-brown when dry, the lower 

 palest; nerves numerous, spreading, scarcely visible; length 175 to '3 in. ; 

 breadth '75 to 1*1 in. ; petiole '15 to '3 in. Racemes on slender peduncles, 

 axillary or terminal, shorter than the leaves, laxly 3- to 5-flowered. 

 Flowers '25 in. across, on slender pedicels *1 to '2 in. long, (longer in 

 fruit). Calyx '2 in. long, campanulate, contracted at the very base 

 into a very short pseudo-stalk (less than a quarter of its length), the 

 mouth with 4 short, broad, blunt, deciduous teeth. Petals orbicular, 

 about twice as long as the short stamens, deciduous. Fruit at first 

 ovoid, afterwards nearly globular, '5 in. long, smooth, crowned by the 

 cupular, short, 4-toothed calyx-limb. Myrtus caudata^ Wall. Cat. 3631. 



Singapore : Wallich. Penang : Curtis 654. Perak : Curtis 2007 ; 

 Scortechini 392,* 444; King's Collector 3654, 4241, 6262; Wray 472, 

 1176, 1574, 2824, 3208, 5341. 



A species rather easily recognised by its small caudate -acuminate, lanceolate, 

 indistinctly-nerved leaves and few-flowered, lax racemes. Wallich also issued under 

 his No. 3591 a plant to which he gave the name Syzygium caudatum. It differs 

 mach from this and is in fact Eugenia cymosa, Lamk. 



47. Eugenia filiformis, Wall. Cat, 3578. A glabrous tree, 30 to 

 50 feet high, with slender drooping branches : young branches very 

 slender, terete, dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, small, pellucid-dotted, 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the base 

 cuneate : both surfaces greenish-brown when dry : the nerves numerous, 

 a few slightly conspicuous, the others very faint ; length 1*75 to 3 in. ; 

 breadth -75 to 1*2 in. ; petiole -15 to '2 in. slender. Racemes slender, 

 very lax, few-flowered, axillary and terminal, as long as or longer than 

 the leaves. Flowers '75 in. long including the stamens, inserted on the 

 slender rachis by filiform pedicels '75 to 1*25 in. in length. Calyx 

 funnel-shaped, attenuated for half its length into a slender pseudo- 

 stalk ; the limb with 4 broad, blunt, reflexed lobes nearly '1 in. long. 

 Petals orbicular-reniform, reflexed, '25 in. long. Ripe fruit elliptic- 

 ovoid to sub-globular, smooth, '75 in. long, crowned by the calyx-lobes. 

 Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II. 478. Syzygium filiforme and 

 8. capillare, Wall. Cat. 3580 and 3578. Clavimyrtus virens, Blume Mus. 

 Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 114. 



Singapore: Wallich; Hullett ; Ridley 4569. Penang : Wallich; 

 Curtis 1090, 1443. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.)2389; Maingay (K.D.) 

 721; De7T2/ 451, 471. Perak : King's Collector 2321, 5601, 5861, 5925, 

 6708; Wo-ay 1192, 3262 ; Ridley 9640. 

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