492 Lix. MTETACEa:. (J. F. Dnthie.) [Bugmia. 



coriaceous midrib keeled Ijeneatli lateral nerves indistinct, cymes terminal 

 corymbose branches stout angled compressed and flattened upwards, flowers 

 crowded, calyx-tube shortly obconic obscurely 5-lobed, petals calyptrate. 



SiNCAPOEB, in Tery dense woods, WaXlich ; Government Hill, Penang, Maingay, 

 740. 



A tree, about 15 ft. high (Maingay). Branchlets terete-compressed. Leaves 

 2^-4: by 1-1} in., smooth and polished above ; lateral nerves slender beneath, uniting 

 close to the margin, interspaces laxly reticulate. Flowers red and white (Maingay). 

 Calyx-tvbe about ^ in., squarrose. Bracts triangular. Fndt size of a small cherry. 



75. E. colorata, Duthie ; leaves very shortly petioled elliptic or oblong- 

 obovate rounded or subcordate at the base rather acutely acuminate very thick 

 and coriaceous, cymes terminal, branches stout alternately compressed shorter 

 than the leaves, flowers crowded in compact corymbs, petals united, calyx about 

 5 in. with 5 shallow lobes. 



Malacca, Maingay, 749. 



Branchlets terete, reddish-brown. Leaves 4-5^ by 14 to 2J in. ; midrib angled 

 beneath, tinged with red; nerves indistinct above, slender beneath, uniting close 

 within the margin, interspaces reticulate. 



76. E, revoluta, Wight III. ii. 17 ; Ic. t. 534 ; leaves lanceolate with a 

 small obtuse point to ovate or broadly obovate and obtuse coriaceous margins 

 often revolute, cymes terminal longish peduncled, flowers sessile congested at 

 the ends of the branchlets, fruit spherical reddish size of a small cherry. BeM. 

 Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. cvii. ; not of Berg. Syzygium revolutum, Thwaites Enum. 

 117. 



NitGHmi Mts., Hb. Hohenacker. Cbtlon, in the Central Provinces, alt. 3-6000 

 ft. (Adam's Peak), Walker, Thwaites, &c. 



A moderate-sized tree ; branchlets terete or obscurely 4-gonous. Leaves shortly 

 petioled, variable in size, polished above, dull and glaucous beneath. Calyx 4-5- 

 toothed. Petals free, or cohering and falhng off as a lid. — The Nilghiri specimens 

 have the leaves smoother above and more conspicuously dotted, the nervation is not so 

 prominent beneath. There is a smaU-leaved form of this in Wight's Herbarium 

 collected in Ceylon by Col. Walker, and called var. parmfolia ; the leaves are about 1 

 by J in. 



77. E. oblata, Roxh. Sort. Beng. 37 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 493 ; leaves oblong or 

 broadly lanceolate acuminate flnely nerved, panicles tenninal and axillary shorter 

 than the leaves, petals united in a calyptra; berries round or transversely oval 

 size of a cherry. Wight HI. ii. 15 ; Ic. t. 622 ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 

 vol. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 67 ; For. Fl. i. 488. S. oblatum, Wall. Cat. 3569. S. pul- 

 chellum, Wall. Cat. 8566 in pari. Jambosa pulchella, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 

 i. 422. E. comosa. Wall. Cat. 3566 D ; I.e. 3600 (under E. inophylla). 



Assam, Jenkins ; Khasia Mts., Silhet, Chittagong, Pegu, and Mabtaban to 

 Tenasseeim ; Pbnang and Sincapoee, Wallich. — Distrie. Yunan. 



A tree; branchlets terete, reddish-brown. Leaves 3-4 in., often with a long 

 slender point, shining above, turning dark when dried ; petiole J-f in. Cymes tri- 

 chotomous, on long peduncles. Flowers rather large, sessile. Calyx-tube about J in., 

 gradually tapering to the base ; lobes 4 or 5, unequal, persistent. Stamens numerous, 

 long ; anthers with an apiculate connective. 



78. E. Isevicaulis, Duthie ; leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate nerves 

 close uniting very near the edge, cymes terminal and axillary short contracted 

 branches ascending, calyx-tube about J in. tm-binate lobes 5, fruit roundish or 

 flattened at both ends size of a cherry. 



