Eugenia.] lix. mtetacej:. (J. T. DutHe.) 497 



97. E. malabarica, Sedd. Fl. Si/lv. t. 199 ; Anal. Gen. cvii. ; leaver 

 obovate-spathulate or quite obcordate rarely oblong marginal looping inconspi- 

 cuous, cymes from the old wood below the leaves rarely in the lower axUs very 

 short, flowers numerous very small bracteolate, calyx-tube with 4 indistinct tri- 

 angular lobes, petals opening separately, fruit spherical about I in. 



Western Peninsula ; Wyhaad, jungles, 2-4000 ft. alt., Beddome. 



A middling-sized tree. Branohlets terete. Leaves 2-5 by l-2f in., minutely 

 dotted beneath ; petiole \-\ in. Cymes about J in. Cah/x-tvbe more or less truncate 

 in age, about ^s in. diam. Petals orbicular ■with a slight claw, pointed, very soon 

 deciduous. 



98. E. congrlomerata, Dutkie ; leaves obovate or obknceolate rounded 

 at the apex or shortly and obtusely acuminate tapering gradually to the base mar- 

 gins revolute, flowers from the leafless axils in dense sessile or subsessile clusters, 

 calyx-tube broadly campanulate lobes 4 rounded persistent, petals free. 



Malayan PmiNsntA, Maingay, 745. 



Baryt of older branchiets grey ; upper branehlets subtetragonous. Leaves 3-4 by 

 1-1§ in., sometimes subfalcate, coriaceous, dark and shining above, rusty-red beneath, 

 minutely black-dotted ; midrib stout beneath, lateral nerves few, prominent beneath 

 and unitiug distinctly in loops within the margin ; petiole about \ in. Bracts oblong, 

 obtuse, laments short, stout. — -Eesembles No. 3326 of Beeoari's Borneo plants, 

 but the flowers are larger and the peduncles longer in the latter. 



tt Petals united. 



§ Leaves alternate, 



99. E. altemlfolia, Wight III. ii. 16 ; Ic. t. 537 ; leaves alternate sub- 

 orbicular thick and coriaceous, cymes lateral longish-peduncled corymbose dense 

 sometimes congested near the apex of year-old branches, fruit subspherical size of 

 a cheny. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 198. 



KuBNOoi., Ctodapah, and N. Aecot districts, Beddome; Baiaghatjt, Wight. 

 Assam, Nagari Hills. 



A large tree. Branohlets terete. Leaves 3-8 in., rounded at the apex or rather 

 suddenly obtusely acuminate, dark green and shining above paler beneath, minutely 

 dotted ; primary nerves numerous, uniting close within the margin ; petiole 1 in. or 

 more. Flowers yello-wish- while, sweet-scented. Calyx viscid and shining, entire or 

 with 4 very minute teeth. Petals calyptrate. 



§§ Leaves opposite. 



100. E. tetrag^ona, Wight HI. ii. 16 ; branehlets stout acutely 4-gonous, 

 leaves ovate-oblong or nearly oval thick and coriaceous, lateral and marginal 

 nerves very prominent beneath, cymes from the lower leafless axils shorter than 

 the leaves, fruit globose size of a large pea. Syzygium tetragoniun, Kvrz in 

 Jowm. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 66 ; For. Fl. i.' 484 ; WaU. Cat. 3550. 

 S. flcifolium, Wall. Cat. 3558. S. rameum, Wall. Cat. 3595. 



SiKKiM, J. B. H. ; Bhotan, Gnffith. Khasia Mts., J. B. H. # T. T. Sobet, 

 Wallioh. AvA, Kwz. — ^Disteib. Yunan. 



A large tree ; branehlets with the angles often winged. I^eavea 5-6J by 2 J in., 

 attenuated at each end, dots minute but not pellucid ; petiole about J in. Calyx-tube 

 narrow below, suddenly enlarging at the throat ; lobes small, rounded. Petals calyp- 

 trate. — ^The flowers are sweet-scented according to WaUiph. 



The branehlets are not so acutely 4-gonous in Wallioh's 8. ficifolimm and S. rameiim, 

 and the leaves of the former are broader. 



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