482 MYRTACER. [ Eugenia, 
forming only a narrow margin; petals 4, orbicular, free but calyp- 
trate, deciduous; filaments slender, glabrous ; berries unknown. 
Has.—Frequent in the stony or rocky beds of choungs in tropical forests 
from Martaban east of Tounghoo down to Tenasserim.—Fl. March-Apr.—l.—SS. 
==Metam. 
RemarKs.—Wood rather heavy, of a somewhat unequal fibre, but close- 
grained, yellowish white turning pale-brownish, rather soft. 
6. E. bracteolata, Wight.—An evergreen tree, all parts glabrous, 
the branchlets greyish; leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, acute or 
acuminate at the base, on a 2-4 lin. long petiole, bluntish or blunt- 
apiculate, 3-5 in. long, entire, chartaceous, glabrous, glaucescent 
beneath, the midrib not impressed above, prominent beneath, the 
lateral nerves very thin and numerous, parallel, anastomosing near the 
margin ; flowers small, white, sessile, usually by 3 or more, forming a 
brachiate, shorter or longer peduncled, glabrous, corymbose panicle, 
the ramifications sharply 4-gonous; bracts and bractlets small, but dis- 
tinct, ovate, acute, thick coriaceous ; calyx about.a line long ora little 
longer, obversely conical, the limb 4-lobed, lobes broadly rotundate ; 
filaments rather short, but slender, glabrous; petals 4, calyptrately 
deciduous ; unripe berry oblong, smooth, crowned by the 4-lobed 
ineurved calyx-limb, 1-seeded. : 
Hap.—Tenasserim. 
OO Calyx hemispherical to funnel-shaped, sessile or pedicel- 
like contracted at the base. 
7. E. operculata, Roxb. ; Brand. For. Fl. 234 (2. nervosa, Bedd. 
Sylv. Madr. 106, not DC.).—Tea-thaby-ay.—An evergreen tree (30— 
50+ 5—15 + 3—6), all parts glabrous; leaves variable, from ovate- 
oblong to elliptical and elliptically obovate, acute at the base, on a 3-3 
in, long petiole, bluntish apiculate to bluntish and shortly acuminate, 
4-7 in. long, chartaceous, entire, glabrous, the numerous nerves thin 
but prominent, pretty regular and rather close, anastomosing towards 
the margin, the net-vyeination thin and lax; flowers small, white, 
sessile, clustered by 3 or more and forming a brachiate, shorter or 
longer peduncled, glabrous panicle above the scars of the fallen 
leaves ; calyx cyathiform, funnel-shaped, narrowed at the base, 13-2 
lin. long, smooth, the limb truncate ; petals 4, concave-orbicular, about 
a line long or somewhat longer, free ; filaments rather short, glabrous ; 
berries more or less globular, the size of a pea, sappy, purplish- 
black, crowned by the cup-shaped calyx-limb, usually 1-seeded. 
____-Var. 1. operculata (Z. operculata, Roxb.): flowers more than 3 
_ together ; panicle longer peduncled, the extreme ramifications very 
‘short ; leaves more acuminate. 
Var. 2. obovata (E. obovata, Wall.): leaves more obovate, more 
