472 Lix. MTBTACEJ!. (J. ¥. Dttthie.) lEugenia. 



Rvmph. Herb. Amb. i. 121, t. 37 {not good) and 38, f. i. ; DC. I. c. 288 ; Bhime 

 Mm. Bot. i. 91 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i, pt. i. 411 ; Berg in Fl. Brazil xiv. 

 pt. i. 376. Myrtus macrophylla, Spreng. ; Biume Bijdr. 1084 M. malaccensisj 

 Spreng ; Blume I. c. 1083.— Bvrm. Fl. Ind. 114 ; Bheede Sort. Mai. i. 29, t. 18. 



MitATA, Maingay, Griffith. Chittagono (cult, f ) J. D. H. & T. T. Tenasserim. — 

 BisTBiB. Malayan Islands. — ^Many varieties are cultivated in different parts of 

 the world. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft. high, with terete-compressed branchlets. Leaves 9-12 by 3J in., 

 glossy on both surfaces ; dots inconspicuous ; nerves indistinct above, the primary ones 

 few prominent beneath and uniting more or less distinctly within the margin, some- 

 times in double loopings; petiole stout, channelled above, \-\ in. Flowers large 

 and handsome. Calyx-tube | in. ; lobes unequal, rounded, with membranous edges, 

 the larger pair J in. long. Petals large, Buborbicular, glandular. Stamens numerous, 

 about 1 in. in length. Style long, persistent, nearly equalling the stamens. Fruit 

 large and juicy, very generally eaten, but insipid (Roxburgh). — In a cultivated Spe- 

 cimen from Chittagong the leaves are distinctly pellucid-punctate with large glands. 



Vae. pwrpwrea ; fruit ovoid dark purple. E. purpurea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 37 ; Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 483; Wight III. ii. 14; Ic. ii. 549. J. purpurea. Wall. Cat. 3610. J. 

 domestica, var. purpurea, Blwme Mus. Bot. i. 92 ; Miq. I. c. — J . nigra, Biimph. Amb. 

 126, t. 38, fig. 1? 



4. E. polypetala, Wight lU. ii. 14 ; Ic. t. 610 ; leaves ternate lineai- 

 lanceolate, peduncles lateral 3-4-flowered, corolla many-petalled. Wall. Cat, 

 3616 ; Kurz in Jawrn. As. Soe. Beng. vol. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 69 ; For. Fl. Brit. 

 Burm. i. 493. E. salicifolia. Buck. Cat. 37. E. aneustifolia, Boxb. Fl. Ind. 

 490. 



SiLHET, Wallich ■ Khasia Mts., Griffith ; . Chittagong, Boxburgh. 



A small tree. Leams 4-5 in. by nearly an inch in width, midrib and lateral nerves 

 prominent beneath, uniting close within the margin. Flowers smaller than those of 

 E, diosipyrifolia. Clah/x-tvie broad, and rather more than ^ in. long when in flower. 

 — Eoxburgh says (1. c.) that this flowers in March and April, and the fruit ripens in 

 June and July; it is readily known by its many (12-16) petals and the ternate 

 leaves. Allied to Jambosa cemula^ Blume, and J. media, Korth. 



** Flowers terminal and axillary. 



"f Calyx-tube broadly turbinate. 



§ Calyx J in. or more in length. 



5. E. diospyrifolia, Wall. Cat. 3617 ; leaves long and narrow ovate- 

 lanceolate or oblong acutely acuminate cordate at the base and nearly sessile, 

 flowers terminal few, calyx-tube about | in. long produced beyond the ovary, 

 lobes very broad. 



SiLHET, Wallich; Khasia, Griffith. 



Leaves 6-7 by If in. pale coloured and with a yellowish tinge beneath. — ^Allied to 

 E. Mimrordi, but the lateral nerves of the leaf are much less prominent beneath and 

 do not form by their union such a distinct iutramargiual one ; the flowers are fewer 

 on shorter peduncles, and the calyx-tube is broader above and not so attenuated 

 below. 



6. E. DKunronii, Wight III. ii. 14 ; Ic. t. 546 ; leaves shortly petioled 

 narrowly lanceolate obtusely acuminate somewhat cordate at the base very 

 coriaceous, nerves prominent beneath juniting in a thick waving intramarginal 

 one, cymes terminal, flowers large reddish or white, calyx-tube attenuated 



