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



breadth 1*1 to 1*25 in. petiole '5 to '75 in. Panicles shorter than or 

 nearly as long as the leaves, axillary and terminal, often 2 or 3 together, 

 few-branched ; the branches divaricate, 4-angled, few-flowered, tricho- 

 tomous. Flowers sessile, small. Calyx only '05 in. long, at first almost 

 cylindric slightly narrowed to the base, afterwards arn-shaped and 

 filially globular, the moufch with a projecting rim, truncate but with 4 

 broad, shallow teeth. Fruit the size and sliape of a pepper-corn, smooth, 

 surmounted by the small remains of the calyx and by the base of the style. 

 F. brachiata, Duthie (not of Roxb.) in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, [in part). 



Penang : Curtis S4i7 5. Perak : King's Collext or 6946. Singapore: 

 Ridley 4990. 



VAR. platyphylla ; leaves broader than in the typical form, elliptic, 

 oblanceolate-oblong, sub-acute or with broad rounded apex, the base 

 always cuneate. 



Singapore : Ridley 3962. Malacca : Berry ; Scortechini. Peeak : 

 Penang : Curtis 32. Syzyg. ribesoides, Wall. Cat. 3553. Syzyg. cinereum, 

 Wall. Cat. 3576. 



VAR. subacuminata ; leaves bluntly acuminate. 



Penang : Z'w^'s CoZ/ec^or 1793. 



This species closely resembles 8. suhtile, Miq., in its pale branches, in the shape 

 and texture of its leaves and in its flowers. The leaves however have only about 

 one-third as many nerves. The two are however very near. 



83. Eugenia microcalyx, Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 493. 

 A tree, 40 to 50 feet high; }Oung brandies slender, 4-angled, brown. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong-obovate or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, much 

 narrowed from the middle to the base; upper surface blackish-brown 

 when dry, the nerves faint : lower warm-brown the nerves and midrib 

 prominent : main-nerves 10 to 14 [)airs, rather straight, ascending, 

 interarching '15 in. from the edge in a bold wavy line ; the edges much 

 and irregularly recurved when dry; length 225 to 3 5 in.; breadth 



125 to 2 in. ; petiole '25 to '3 in. Panicles terminal and axillary, ns long 

 as or longer than the leaves, on long slender peduncles ; branches and 

 bi-anchlets lax, spreading, compressed, with minutely triangular persist- 

 ent bracteoles at their bases. Flowers yellowish-white, sessile, in heads 

 at the ends of the branchlets, small (only '2 in. long including the 

 stamens), bracteolate at the base. Calyx, '15 in. long, funnel-shaped, 

 minutely granular ; the mouth with 4 small distant triangular lobes. 

 Petals 4, calyptrate. Fruit (probably unripe) as large as a pepper-corn, 

 globular, crowned by the wide calyx-limb, white tinged with red. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2410 {in part), 24^\\. Derry ^h^l-, Main- 

 gay (K.D.) 727, 731. Singapore: Ridley 2054. Perak: Kings 

 Collector 5986, 5990, 6627, 8J29, 8700, 10417, 10735. 



