Bugenia.] lix. MYETACEiB. (J. F. DutMe.) 501 



110. E. floccosa, Sedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 200 ; young 'branches densely floc- 

 cose, leaves ovate or suborMcular sometimes lanceolate obtuse densely floccose at 

 length glabrous except on the ribs minutely dotted beneath coriaceous, edges 

 revolute, flowers terminal in very short few-flowered cymes or solitary and large, 

 calyx coriaoe"ous densely pilose furnished at the base with 2 large bracteoles, 

 petals exceeding the calyx-lobes white hairy at the back, fruit large size of 

 a pigeon's egg densely woolly crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes. 



S. TiNNEVKLLY Ghats above Calead, 3-4000 ft., Beddome. 



A large and beautiful tree. Leaves very thick, 3-5 by 2-3J in. ; nerves quite 

 inconspicuous except in dried specimens, penninerved, with the usual marginal looping 

 or occasionally 3-nerved at the base, the two lateral nerves not prominent ; petiole 

 densely floccose, ^-^ in. Flowers about 1 in. diam. JHsh large, subglobose, woolly. 



111. E. codyensis, Mwnro in Wight HI. ii. 13 ; leaves short-petioled 

 ovate-oblong or obovate' tepering towards the base shortly obtusely acuminate, 

 flowers nearly sessile clustered in terminal Jieads at the extremities of short 

 abortive branches or axillary and solitary or few together, fruit globose 1-2- 



NjLGHiBi and Kurq Mts., Mwiwo. 



A shrub with stout terete branchlets ; young parts clothed with white pubesoeoce. 

 Leaves 1^-2^ by |-lf in., coriaceous, glabrous, shining above ; dots minute, pellucid ; 

 lateral nerves slender, prominent, uniting within the margin ; petiole J-^ in. Cah/ic- 

 tube eampanulate, silky-pubescent ; lobes 4, broad, persistent, ciliate. Petals oblong, 

 twice the length of the calyx. Berries about J in. in diameter. — Judging from the 

 specimen in Wight's Herbarium it seems to be closely allied to E. elliptica, Lam., of 

 which it is perhaps only a variety ; the leaves are rather longer petioled and the 

 flowers larger. 



Allied to this is E. huxifolia. Lam., a native of the Mauritius. 



112. E. lucida, Lam, JDict. iii. 203; young parts and inflorescence 

 ■covered with light-coloured cottony pubescence, leaves petioled broadly obovate 

 •or nearly orbicular revolute at the edges very coriaceous, flowers large solitary 

 in the axils or collected 3 or 4 together at the ends of the former year's branches 

 each with 2 small subacute bracts, calyx-lobes rounded unequal. Jossinia lucida, 

 DC, Brodr. iii. 237. E. cotinifolia, Jacq. Obs, iii. 3 t. 53 in part, E. hypo- 

 teuca, Thwaites MSS, C,P. 3864 ^ 3865; Sedd. Fl. Sylv, Anal. Oen. cxii. 

 Myrtus cotinifolia, Sp-eng. Syst. ii. 481 in part. M. Oommersonii, l^eng. 

 I. c. 479. , 



Ceylon ; Wattekelle Hill, 5000 ft. alt., Thwaites, — ^Distbib. Bourbon, Mauritius. 



Leaves 1^-2 by 1-1| in.; nerves indistinct above, slender beneath, and uniting 

 within the margin; petiole about J in. .Mowers upwards of an inch in diam. PedieeU 

 J in. or less. Calyx-tvhe \ in. " Fruit obovate or globose glabrous crowned with 

 the obtuse calyx-lobes " (DecandoUe, 1. c). 



118. E. macrosepala, Buthie ; leaves petioled ovate or oblong-lanceo- 

 late subacute at the base obtusely acuminate or sometimes rounded at each end 

 coriaceous, flowers lateral from leafless axils sessile solitary or in pairs each 

 with 2 linear pilose bracts equalling or exceeding the calyx-tube, calyx-lobes 

 4 long narrowly lanceolate acute exceeding the obtuse petals. 



N. Canaea, Stocks. 



Tipper branches stout, terete or compressed at the nodes ; hark brownish. Leaves 

 S-4J by l^lf in., shining a little above and of a reddish tinge ; nerves inconspicuous 

 above, slender but prominent beneath uniting within the margin. Calyx-lobes clothed 

 with long spreading white hairs. Petcds ovate, pilose at the back and ciliate at the 

 margin. Staminifero'us disk not so broad and square as in E. elUpiica, Lam. 



