486 MYRTACER. [ Eugenia. 
2-4 in. long, glabrous, the midrib impressed above and prominent 
beneath, the lateral nerves all very numerous and very faint, 
irregularly parallel and anastomosing along the margin; flowers 
small, whitish, sessile, with a thick pedicel-like calyx-base, usually by 
3 or more clustered and forming a brachiate, glabrous, rigid panicle 
above the scars of the fallen leaves below the younger leafy branch- 
lets; calyx funnel-shaped, about 2 lin. long, smooth, the thick 
base pedicel-like; limb obsoletely and broadly 4-lobed, soon trun- 
cate ; petals 4, orbicular, about a line long, calyptrately deciduous 
or free; filaments long, glabrous ; berries ovoid-oblong, often some- 
what oblique, about 4 in long, purplish black, sappy, smooth, 
crowned by the truncate pag: A 1-seeded. 
Hazs.—Frequent all over Burma in all kinds of leaf-shedding oe = 
chiefly i in the mixed forests, entering ae the tropical agin: up to 
eee —Fl. Apr.-May; Fr. May-June 1—ss.= 
ood heavy, hard, HEE close- cok but brittle. Bark, 
like t that o of oan other rast of this genus, good for tanning purposes. 
16. E. cymosa, Lamk.—An evergreen shrub, 4-6 ft. high or 
higher, and growing out into a little tree, all parts quite glabrous, 
the branchlets brown, almost terete; leaves from elliptical to 
elliptically-oblong and broadly a olate, on a slender 1 to 2 lin. 
long petiole, acute at the base, bluntish ‘cuspidate-acuminate, 14 
to 24 in. long, thin coriaceous, err glossy, glabrous, in a dried 
state fuscous-black, the midrib impressed above and prominent 
beneath, the lateral nerves very faint, numerous oe approximate, 
parallel, “egies along the margin; flowers small, white, 
sessile, with a tracted. short sedan. like calyx-base, often by 3, 
forming a Peotealery eorymb-like, glabrous panicle in the axils of 
the leaves and at the end of the branchlets, the ramifications obso- 
letely 4-cornered ; calyx cyathiform, about a line long, tapering 
in a pedicel-like base; limb wide, almost truncate, the 4 lobes 
obsolete, repand ; petals 4, orbicular, free ; filaments slender, glab- 
rous ; berries almost globular or didymous, the size of a pea, sappy, 
bluish black, crowned by the cup-shaped calyx-limb, 1- or 2- 
Haz.—Southern Tenasserim.—Fl. Nov. 
° petiole, bluntish, ; Beataipiedlets or bluntish acusihante; 1- 2 
in. long, thin but ut rigidly coriaceous, entire, glabrous, glaucescent 
beneath, the midrib impressed above and slightly prominent be- 
_ lateral nerves almost invisible ; all, white, 
icel-like calyx-base (the lower ones often 
