1901.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 131 



both surfaces (when dry) olivaceous-brown, the upper shining, with 

 the midrib and main-nerves depressed ; the lower paler and dull ; 

 main-nerves 5 to 8 pairs, faint on both surfaces ; reticulations few, 

 faintly visible on the lower invisible on the upper surface ; length of 

 the lanceolate form 2'5 to 3 in., of the elliptic form 3 to 4*5 in. ; 

 breadth respectively 1 to 1*5 in. and 1*5 to 2'5 in. ; petiole '6 to '8 in. 

 Panicles numerous, crowded on the branches below the leaves, trichoto- 

 mous, 1 to 2 in. long, with a few divaricating, few-flowered branches. 

 Flowers in threes at the ends of the branchlets, '25 in. long (including 

 the stamens), sessile or on short, stout 4-angled pedicels, obovoid in 

 bud. Calyx '1 in. long, lengthening to '2 in. after fertilization, cam- 

 panulate with a 4 in. wide, truncate, irregularly toothed thickened mouth, 

 much narrowed to the base but not constricted into a pseudo-stalk. 

 Petals 4 orbicular, calyptrate. Fruit unknown. E. occlusa^ Kurz in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 498 (not of Miquel). 

 NicoBAR Islands : Kurz. 



This has been collected only in the Nicobar islands and there only by Kurz 

 who referred it to Syzygium occlusum, Miq. But it differs so much from an 

 authentic specimen of that species in the Horsfield collection and from Miquel's own 

 description, that I have given it a new name. 



96. Eugenia Jambolana, Lamk. Diet. Ill, 198. A small tree; 

 young branches thinner than a goose-quill, terete, very pale- when dry. 

 Leaves coriaceous, rather variable, rotund-ovate to oblong-ovate, bluntly 

 and shortly acuminate, sub-acute or obtuse, slightly narrowed at the 

 base; both surfaces brown when dry, the under paler; nerves and 

 their connecting reticulations numerous, distinct when dry on both 

 surfaces but especially on the lower, intra- marginal nerve and midrib 

 prominent on the lower; length 2'5 to 4 in.; breadth 1*5 to 2*25 ; 

 petiole *6 to '75 in. Panicles from the branches below the leaves, much 

 branched ; the branches divaricate, all terete, many-flowered, longer 

 than the leaves. Flowers whitish, sessile, '4 in. across. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, suddenly contracted into a stout pseudo-stalk less than half 

 its length, the limb at first obscurely and broadly 4-toothed but 

 ultimately truncate. Petals 4, orbicular, rather more than '1 in. long, 

 calyptrate. Fruit ovoid-oblong, about the size of an olive, pulpy, 

 smooth, dark-purple, 1-seeded. Ham. in. Wern. Soc. Trans. V, 342 ; 

 Roxh. Fl. Ind. II, 484; Wight Ic. t. 535 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. Ill, 283 j 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. I, t. 197 ; Brandis For. Fl. 233 ; Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. XLVI, Pt. 2, 67; For. Fl. I, 485. Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. II, 499. Syz. Jamholanum, DC. Prodr. Ill, 259 ; Wall. Cat. 

 3560 ; W. and A. Prodr. I, 329 ; Dalz. and Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 93. 

 E. frondosa, Wall. Cat. 3560 G : not 3590. E. Moorei, F. Muell. Fragm. 

 V, 33. Calyptranthes Jambolana^ Willd. Sp. PI. II, 975. 0. capitellata, 



