490 MYRTACER. es [ Eugenia. 
Var. 2. lepidocarpa (#. lepidocarpa, Wall.): leaves doubly 
smaller, more decurrent at the base, more oboval, the lateral nerves 
anastomosing nearer to the margin, usually fuscous-blackish be- 
neath. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical, and occasionally in the moister upper mixed 
forests of the Pezu Yomah, Martaban, and Tenasserim ; var. 2: in the Eng forests 
of Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb. ; Fr. Apr.—s.—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
Remarxs.—Wood heavy, brown, hard and brittle, close-grained. 
4. KE. pachyphylla, K 
the branchlets white; leaves obovate to obovate-oblong, more or 
less cuneate-acuminate at the base, on a strong petiole 3-4 lin. long, 
or by threes, sessile, forming a very short, thick, trichotomous 
panicle at the end of the branchlets, the peduncle and the ramifica- 
tions very short (}-1 in. long), very thick and joint-like, 4-gonous ; 
calyx about 4 lin. long, obconical, tapering at the base, smooth, 
the limb 4-lobed, the lobes about 2 lin. long, rounded, persistent ; 
petals, ete., unknown. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim, Bithoko range, at 3,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. Apr. 
25. K, tristis, Kz—An evergreen tree, all parts glabrous, the 
branchlets terete, thick, pale brown; leaves elliptical to ellipti- 
cally obovate, acute at the base, ona thick petiole 4-2 in. long, 
blunt-apiculate, coriaceous, entire, 4-5 in. long, glabrous, opaque, 
- the lateral nerves rather strong and prominent, rather distant and 
somewhat irregular with intervening longitudinal thin veins and 
rather lax net-veination ; flowers unknown ; panicle corymb-like, 
sessile, terminal, glabrous, the ramifications rather short and robust ; 
berries on a thick 1-2 lin. long peduncle, depressed-globose, the size 
_ of a cherry, glabrous, crowned by the disk-like spreadingly 4- 
lobed calyx-limb, 2- or 1-seeded, the endocarp thin, fleshy ; calyx- 
lobes in fruit about 14 lin. long, rounded. 
Hazs.—In the Eng forests of Tenasserim.—Fr. Apr. 
and areuately anastomosing, laxly and transversely veined ; 
cher icel-like calyx-base, 
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