Eugenia. | MYRTACER. 477 
Has.—Generally cultivated in and around _ villages all over Burma, and 
sometimes half wild in village bushes.—Fl. Apr.-May; Fr. R.S.—SS.= @. 
EUGENIA, L. 
Calyx-tube from globular to narrow-turbinate and club-shaped, 
not or more or less produced beyond the ovary ; lobes 4 or rarely 5, 
or more or less connivent, or connate and falling off ina single 
calyptra. Stamens numerous, in several series, free or collected 
into 4 obscure bundles; anthers versatile. Ovary 2- or very rarely 
3-celled, usually with several ovules in_each cell; style subulate, 
with a simple minute stigma. Fruit a berry or almost drupe-like, 
or nearly dry with a fibrous rind. Seeds either solitary and globu- 
or few and variously shaped by compression, the testa usually 
membranous, rarely cartilaginous. Embryo thick and fleshy, radicle 
*« Calyx smooth inside, without an intrastaminal thickened : 
ring ; flowers usually small, the calyx-limb often obsolete i 
and turning truncate after flowering. rries often 
small, globular to ovoid, more or less sappy, 1- rarely 2- ~ 
© Calyx elongate or shorter, and then more or less ob- 
versely coni 
Flowers in simple or alwost simple axillary racemes. 
Berries ovoid, Calyx very elongate. 
Calyx tubular-narrowed, 1-4 in. long, the lobes broad and rounded ; 
berry about an inch long, ovoid-oblong, crowned with calyx- 
lol : ¢ : . : . : ’ ‘ : . E. elaviflora. 
Calyx clavate, 3-4 in. long, the limb truncate; berry clavate-ob- 
long, only } in. long, crowned with the cup-shaped truncate 
calyx-limb . : . . P “ . ‘ : . EB. leptantha. 
X X Flowers in more or less corymb-like axillary and 
erminal panicles, Calyx shorter, 
Calyx contracted in a pedice -like . 
Calyx smooth ; leaves somewhat glaucous beneath ; berries black . E. grata. 
<= _ Calyx in a dried state granular-rough ; berries white; leaves 
E eather'glesy bmesth . s+ te, ee E. Zeylanica. 
cos ++ Calyx sessile, not pedicel-like narrowed. Flow- 
ers in terminal (and sometimes also axillary) 
corymb-like panicles. 
Leaves more or less linear, net-veined between the remote, indistinct, 
irregular, lateral nerves; as jeer ‘ : . E. contracta, 
ves more or less oblong, somewhat glaucescent beneath, n 
net-veined between the approximate parallel lateral nerves; a 
tree . ‘ ee : = : Z . E. bracteolata. 
