Eugenia. | MYRTACER. 485 
E. balsamea, Wight.—An evergreen tree, all parts glab- 
— — branchlets white ; leaves obovate-oblong to oblong-lanceo- 
late, cuneate or acuminate at the base, on a 2- - long petiole, 
bluntish or bluntish apiculate, chartaceous, entire, 3-5 in. long, 
glabrous, pale green on both sides, the lateral nerves rather distant, 
thin but prominent, almost curved and anastomosing towards the 
margin; flowers small, white, sessile, with a slender, abruptly con- 
tracted, pedicel-like calyx- base of about a line length, usually by 3 
(the middle” one often sessile) , forming small, slender, brachiate, 
rous, co e panicles usually arising by 2-3 above the scars 
of the fallen Soave or in the leaf-axils themselves ; calyx cyathiform, 
smooth, hardly a line deep, abruptly contracted in the pedicel-like 
avate base; limb minutely 4-toothed, soon turning truncate ; 
petals 4; filaments rather short, glabrous ; berries (unripe) globular, 
smooth, ‘crowned by the truncate ¢ cup-shaped calyx-limb, 1-seeded. 
Has.— Burma (according Dr. Mason) ; probably to be found in the Arracan 
‘or Ava hills. 
14. E. fruticosa, Roxb. — Thabyay-nee.—An evergreen tree 
ee all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets 
brown ; bark grey, 1 in. thick, minutely fissured, conchoidly peeling 
off ; cut brown ; nonin elliptically oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
acute at the base, on a 4-4 in. long petiole, bluntish or apiculate, 
2-3 in. long, entire, thin coriaceous, glabrous, the midrib impress 
above and prominent beneath, the lateral nerves very numerous, 
faint, irregularly parallel, anastomosing towards the margin; 
flowers small, white, sessile, clustered by 3 or usually more, forming 
a brachiate, rigid, glabrous panicle arising from above the scars of 
the fallen leaves along the older branches below the leafy shoots ; 
calyx obversely conical, sessile, smooth, about a line long, the limb 
truncate ; petals 4, usually calyptrately deciduous ; filaments slender, 
glabrous ; berries ovoid, the size of a sma le smooth, bluish 
black, crowned by the truncate cup-like calyx-limb, 1 ed. 
Has.—Frequent in the open, especially the Eng forests, along the eastern 
als of t he P egu Yoma oe Aa) ame lcabas down to Ten a asserim ; also 
et = ee Fr. Psi it —l. 
Sama —Wood hard, heavy, brown. ’ 
15. E. Jambolana, Lamk.; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. eet Brand. 
For. Fl 233, t. 30.—Thabyay- hpyoo. —An evergreen tree *(60—80 
+18—30+5—12), often shedding leaves in the drier parts of 
Burma during H.S., all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets white ; 
bark grey, about an inch thick, fibrous, and peeling off in 
small rounded flakes; cut red; leaves elliptically yar to broadly 
= obovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the base, on 
in. long petiole, bluntish acuminate, entire, thin coriaceous, 
