Eugenia. | MYRTACER. 489 
long petiole, rather abruptly pluntish acuminate, 3-5 in. long, thin 
coriaceous, entire, glabrous, turning fuscous in drying, opaque 
slender, glabrous; berries almost globular, broader than long, the 
size of a large cherry, smooth, purplish black, crowned by the small 
cup-shaped or occasionally incurvedly lobed calyx-limb, 1 
the pericarp rather thick, corky-fleshy. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests, especially along marshy choungs, 
a Martaban down to Tenasserim.— Fl. March-May ; Fr. June-Aug.—s.—SS.= 
am. 
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* * Calyx usually with a circular or 4-angular intrastaminal 
ring, or the stamens on the thickened ring itself, the limb 
cuous. Berries usually large, more or less turbimate or 
ovoid, the endocarp thick and fleshy. Seeds large, few 
or solitary, and usually accompanied by abortive ones. 
O Calyx-lobes in fruit spreading. 
23. E. dis, Wight; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 107.—Toung- 
thabyay, or thabyay-kyee.—An evergreen tree (50—60 + 18—244 
4—6), all parts glabrous; branchlets red-brown ; leaves more or less _ 
broadly to ovate-elliptical, acute or blunt at the base, on a strong 
petiole about 4 in. long, bluntish apiculate or rarely shortly bluntish 
acuminate, entire, firmly coriaceous, glabrous, glossy, 4-6 in. long, 
the lateral nerves thin but prominent, rather numerous, parallel and 
slightly curved, anastomosing towards the margin, y veined 
between; flowers middling sized, white, sessile, with a contracted 
calyx-base, clustered by 3 or more, forming robust and rather short, 
glabrous, brachiate, corymbose panicles either solitary or often by 
in the axils of the upper leaves and terminal; calyx smooth, 
about 3 lin. long or longer, hemispherical, with a contracted, thick, 
pedicel-like, 14-2 lin. long base, the limb 4-lobed, 2 of the lobes 
petal-like, concave-orbicular, about 2 lin. long, the alternating 2 
very short, rounded ; petals 4, coneave-orbicular, as large as the 
larger calyx-lobes or somewhat longer; filaments long, glabrous ; 
berries obovoid-pear-shaped, about an inch long or somewhat longer, 
smooth, crowned by the cup-sha 
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