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Eugenia. | MYRTACER. 493 
AB.—Frequent along choungs in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of 
the peat Yomah and Martaban down to Tenasserim, up to 2,000 feet elevation,— 
Fl. March-Apr. ; Fr. Aug.—s.—SS. am. SiS. 
REMARKS Wool rather heavy, fibrous, but close-grained, pale brown. 
31. E. amplexicaulis, Roxb.—An evergreen haegeons tree, with 
a tolerably straight trunk soon dividing, all parts glabrous ; bark 
of woody parts brown; leaves oval-oblong, almost stem-clasp- 
ing, rounded at both ends, firm and glossy, 6 to 8 in. long by 3-4 
broad, the lateral nerves rather distant, not numerous, curved and 
arcuately anastomosing towards the margin; flowers large, white, 
sessile with a contracted calyx-base, by threes, on a very short 
peduncle, forming a short, eel, Sade corymb laterally arising from 
persistent, the lobes rounded, 2 of them larger and about 3 lin. 
long; petals 4, free, obovate-orbicular, nearly } an in. long ; fila- 
- ments long and slender, glabrous; berry globular, the size of a 
small apple, greenish yellow when. ripe, crowned by the inflexed 
calyx-lobes, 1- or 2-seeded, the endocarp soft and rather spongy.— 
(Descript. from Roxburgh’s Fl. Ind. and his MS. drawings.) 
Has.—Chittagong. 
L.—Thabyoo-thabyay.—An evergreen tree, 
= 32. E. ccensis, 
30 to 40 ft. high, all parts glabrous, the branchlets compressed- 
terete, pale-brown; leaves oblong-lanceolate to almost obovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate at the base, on a $ to 3 in. long, strong 
petiole, acuminate, 6-8 in. long, chartaceous, entire, glabrous, 
opaque, the lateral nerves rather numerous, thin but prominent, 
irregularly parallel and almost curved, anastomosing towards the 
margin, indistinctly and laxly net-veined between ; flowers large, 
purple, sessile, on a ee shortened peduncle and appeari ng almos 
clustered ; calyx about } an in. long, clavate-turbinate, smooth, 
narrowed at the base, the persistent limb 4-lobed, the lobes semi- 
ae the 2 larger ones about 3 lin. broad or somewhat broader ; 
petals 4, free, almost reniform-orbicular with a broad base, about 
in. long; berries about the size of a hen’s egg, prcapreses ovoid- 
turbinate to ees smooth and glossy, from pale rose- 
coloured to dark purple, crowned by the folecar calyx-lobes, 
usually ]-seeded, the endocarp thick and fleshy, edible. 
Has.—Cultivated in native gardens of Tenasserim.—F. H.S. 
3 3. E. polypetala, Wall—An evergreen tree (20—30+4—6+4 
oy, all aide glabrous, the branchlets whitish and scared ; leaves 
eaten inet by 3 or 4, or opposite or nearly so, linear to linear- 
, acuminate te or obtuse at the base, on a thick “hardly a 
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