— 494 MYRTACER. [ Bugenia. 
line long petiole, 3-4 in. long, bluntish acuminate, entire, glabrous, 
thin coriaceous, opaque, the lateral nerves thin but prominent, 
rather distant, anastomosing towards the margin, thinly veined 
between ; flowers rather large, white, on slender 3-14 in. lone at 
the apex minutely 2-bracteoled pedicels, forming a simple corymb 
or a short, glabrous, short-peduncled, corymb-like raceme arisin 
solitary from above the scars of the fallen leaves ; calyx obconically 
turbinate, about 4 in. long, smooth, clavate-contracted at the base, 
the limb 4-lobed, the lobes persistent, 2 of them very much larger 
and broader, about 2 lin. long by 4 broad, rounded; petals 4-16, 
broader than long, free ; filaments long and slender, glabrous. 
Has.—Chittagong.—Fl. March-Apr. ; Fr. June and July. 
34. EK. aquea, Burm.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 109.—An evergreen 
tree (20—30 +10—12+4+2—8), all parts glabrous, the branchlets 
white or pale-coloured, sharply and often wingedly 4-angular or 
branches or occasionally in the axils of the leaves; calyx about 4-3 
in. long, turbinate-clavate, smooth, the limb 4-lobed, the lobes 
persistent, twice as broad as long, blunt, 2 of them larger, about 
5 lin. broad ; petals 4, broader than long, rounded, free; filaments 
long and slender, glabrous ; berries depressed -turbinate - pear- 
shaped, smooth and glossy, pale rose-coloured or white, the size of 
a wood-apple, 1-4-seeded, with several abortive seeds, crowned by 
the inflexed carnescent calyx-lobes, the endocarp spongy-fleshy, 
thick, edible. 
Has.—A ntly only cultivated all over Burma from Chittagong and 
Martaban bac eanentin sai l. March-Apr.; Fr. May-June. Spr 
35. E. Javanica, Lamk.—An evergreen tree (25—30+10—12 
+3—4), all parts glabrous, the branchlets terete and brown ; leaves — 
_ from ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, rounded to almost cordate 
at the base, on a short petiole up to a line long or almost sessile, 
bluntish to bluntish acuminate, 4-6 in. long, entire, thin coriaceous, 
ous, the lateral nerves thin and rather faint, rather copious 
what irregularly parallel, faintly anastomosing towards 
