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ultimately grey. Leaves thinly coriaceous, variable in shape, ovate- 

 oblong to elliptic and (in var. 2) obovate, shortly acuminate, bluntly 

 apiculate or (in var. 2) obtuse, the base cuneate ; both surfaces olivaceous 

 when dry, the lower paler and minutely dotted: main-nerves distinct on 

 the lower surface, 8 to 12 pairs, curved, ascending, becoming faint towards 

 the intramarginal nerve : length 4 to 6 in. ; breadth 1'6 to 2*2 in. j 

 petiole *2 to '3 in. Panicles from the branches below the leaves, 

 2 or 3 inches long, pedunculate, spreading, lax; the branches divaricate, 

 trichotomous, 4-angled. Flowers in threes at the apices of the branchlets, 

 greenish, sessile. CaZ?/a? smooth, cam panulate, contracted at the base ; 

 the limb truncate. Petals 4, calypti*ate, orbicular, concave, about '1 in. 

 Across. Fruit pisiform, smooth, very dark purple, pulpy, 1-seeded. 

 Wight Ic. t. 552 ; Brandis For. Fl. 234 ; Kurz For. Fl. I, 483 ; Duthie 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 11, 498. E. cerasoides, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 92 ; 

 Fl. Ind. II, 488 ; Wight Ic. t. 615 ; Miq. Anal. Bot. Ind. T, 27 ; Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. I, Pt. 1, 443 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI, Pt. 2, 66; 

 For. Fl. I, 484. 8yzygium nervosum, DC. Prodr. Ill, 260 ; Mem. Mjrt. 

 II, 16 ; Wall. Cat. 3551 A & B ; 3553 B & C (under E. ribesioides) ; 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. 119 ; Thwaites Enum. 417 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ic. 460 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. CVI. S. costatum, nodosum, and angkolaniim, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I.e. 448. Galyptranthes mangiferifolia, Hance in Walp. 

 Ann. II, 629. G. costata, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3556. G. grandis and 

 0. Tatna, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3554, 3555. 



Perak : Scortechini 306. Penang : Curtis 1444. Distrib. — British 

 India, S. China and the Malay Archipelago. 



Two varieties have been separated off but I have no specimens of 

 either from any of the Provinces in our region. These are described as 

 follows by Mr. Duthie in Hooker's Flora of British India. 



VAR. Pa?iiaZa ; berries oval/ E. Paniala, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 489; 

 Wight Ic. t. 616 ; Kurz For. Fl. T, 483. Syz. Panealla, Wall. Cat. 3557 ? 

 Oalyptranthes cuneata. Ham. ? 



VAR. ohovata, Kurz For. Fl. I, 482 ; leaves obovate or oblanceolate, 

 cymes more compact. Syz. obovatum, Wall. Cat. 3552, not of DC. 

 8. vastum, Wall. Cat. 3661. 8, polyanthum, Thwaites ; not of Wight. 



A third variety occurs in Perak but it has as jet been only once 

 collected. It may be distinguished as follows. 



VAR. coriacea; leaves thicker than in the type and not dotted oi' 

 very obscurely dotted on the lower surface. 



Perak: TFra?/ 2725, at Matong on the sea-coast. 



95. Eugenia nicobarica. King. A tree ? Young branches rather 

 thinner than a goose-quill, terete, somewhat rougli, gvey. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, lanceolate or elliptic, the apex sub-acute, the base cuneate; 



