492 MYRTACER. [ Hugenia. 
29. E, formosa, Wall—An evergreen large tree, all parts glab- 
rous, the branchlets almost terete, pale-coloured; leaves usually 
large, ovate-oblong to oblong, rounded or almost cordate at the 
base, on a strong and very short petiole or aliteat sessile (the upper 
ones — whorls by threes), 4 to 14 feet long, acuminate, 
Hoye flowers large, pale rose-coloured, solitary or by thes on a 
$-} in. long pedicel, narrowly 2-bracteolate at the apex, forming a 
short, simple or corymb-like, glabrous raceme at the end of the 
branchlets or ane laterally from above the scars of the fallen 
leaves ; calyx about 3 to ? in. long, smooth, clavate-turbinate, the 
limb 4-lobed, persistent, the lobes broad, rounded, 2 of them much 
larger, about 4 an in. broad by 4 lin. long; petals about 4 an in. 
long, almost orbicular, free ; filaments very long, pete berries 
the size of a small apple, almost globose, contracted in a very short 
stalk at the base, white, smooth and glossy, crowned by the spread- 
ing calyx-lobes, 2-celled, with a large seed in each cell, the endocarp 
_ rather thin, insipid-fleshy. 
Has.—In the tropical forests of Chittagong and Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Fr. 
March. 
ReMaRxKs.—Wood heavy, uniformly brown, close-grained, takes a fine polish. 
OO Calyx-lobes in fruit incurved or inflexed. 
mate, much narrowed at the base, pe Gin a dried state almos Giaske 
oF ct, the persistent limb 4-lobed, the lobes semi-orbicular, pert 
_ 2 of them a little larger and nearly 4 in. long; petals 4, free, 
ad an inch broad, reniform-orbicular, with a v ery broad hens ; fila- 
ments long and slender, glabrous ; berries the size of an orange, 
peobore,, smooth, brown, several-seeded, crowned by the. 
lyx age the Seen. rather aes fleshy, edible. 
