106 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



48. Eugenia andamanica, King: n. sp. A small glabrous tree : 

 young branches slender, with greyish-brown ratlier rough bark. Leaves 

 coriaceous, rotund-ovate to rotund, with a very short abrupt blunt 

 apiculus, obscurely crenate near the apex, abruptly tapered to the base ; 

 nerves numerous invisible on the upper shining surface and faint on 

 the dull lower surf ace, curving upward, interarching close to the margin ; 

 length 1-5 to 2'5 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole '3 or '4 in. Panicles often 

 as long as the leaves, crowded, pedunculate, axillary and terminal, the 

 branchlets usually trichotomous, 4-angled, bearing 3 or 4 sessile flowers 

 at their apices. Flowers about '5 in. long, clavate, the calyx contracted 

 into a pseudo-stalk more than half of its length, the mouth with 4 erect, 

 equal, triangular, acute teeth. Petah 4, orbicular, calyptrate. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Andaman Islands : King's Collector. 



49. Eugenia Hoseana, King n. sp. A glabrous tree, 30 to 40 feet high : 

 young branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale greyish-yellow, terete, 

 the very youngest quadrangular. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic- 

 oblong, abruptly and shortly caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 u[Tper surface dark-brown leaden and shining when dry, the lower pale- 

 brown and dull ; main-nerves 15 to 20 pairs ascending very little, 

 almost straight, interarching '1 in. from the edge ; length 4'5 to 7 in. ; 

 breadth 1*75 to 2 5 in. ; petiole '15 to '3 in. Racemes axillary and 

 terminal, solitary, not more than 1 in. long, the rachis with 2 deep 

 grooves. Flowers white, '35 in. long, exclusive of the stamens, sessile, 

 enveloped in several sub-ovate leathery bracts as long as themselves. 

 Galyx-tuhe widely campanulate, contracted slightly at the base but not 

 into a pseudo-stalk ; its texture very leathery ; its mouth with 4 blunt, 

 obtuse lobes. Petals orbicular. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini 163 ; Wray 2952 ; King's Collector 3407. 



50. Eugenia Benjamina, King n. sp. A glabrous shrub or small 

 tree : young branches thin, terete, pale-brown. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 conspicuously pellucid-dotted on both surfaces, narrowly elliptic, some- 

 times oblancoolate-elUptic, with an abrupt, narrow, short apiculus half 

 an inch or more in length, the base cuneate : both surfaces pale yellowish- 

 or greenish-brown when dry ; the nerves very numerous, distinct like 

 the reticulations, interarching near the margin ; lengtli 2*5 to 3 in. ; 

 breadth 1 to 1*5 in. ; petiole '15 in. slender. Racemes axillary or termi- 

 nal, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered. Flowers "5 to '6 in. long, 

 (including the stamens), sessile on short stout pedicels. Calyx clavate, 

 the mouth with 4 broad, blunt lobes. Petals orbicular, with thin edges. 

 Fruit when young covered with large convex pellucid glands, crowned 

 by the deeply 4-lobed calyx-limb ; when ripe depressed-globular, the 

 calyx-limb reduced to a ring, J in. long and 1 to 1"4 in. broad. 



