488 MYRTACER. [ Eugenia. 
20. KE, rubens, Roxb.—An evergreen large tree, all parts glab- 
rous, the branchlets white; leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
acute at the base, on a strong 2-3 lin. long petiole, bluntish acu- 
minate, 4-6 in. long, entire, chartaceous, glabrous, in drying turn- 
ing black above and reddish beneath, the lateral nerves thin, but 
prominent, rather copious, parallel, with faint net-veination, anas- 
tomosing near the margin; flowers rather small, white, sessile, with 
e, and from the base branched or short-peduncled, glabrous, 
corymbose panicle at the end of the branchlets ; calyx obconiecally 
Has.—Forests of Chittagong; Tenasserim, from Moulmein down to Mer- 
gui.—Fl. Feb.-Apr. ; Fr. begin. of R.S. 
21. E. Thumra, tree 
(40—50 + 15—20+4—6), all parts glabrous, the branchlets grey ; 
bark roughish, grey, 4 in. thick ; cut brown, dryish ; leaves ellipti- 
in a $ lin. long stalk or sessile, the size of a cherry, glabrous, 
erowned by the truncate cup-shaped calyx-limb, 1-seeded, the peri- 
carp corky-fleshy. 
_, Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the Pegu Yomah and more so in 
those of Martaban down to Tenasserim, especially in marshy or inundated 
places along streams.—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. May-June.—s.—SS.=Metam. 
____ Brmarxs.—Wood heavy, red-brown, close-grained, and rather hard. 
22. E. oblata, Roxh.— Thabya -nee.—An evergreen tree (40— 
-12—20+4—8), all parts glabrous, the branchlets red-brown ; 
3 oblong to elliptically-oblong, acute at the base, on a 2-3 lin. 
