EUGENIA ALTERNIFOLIA. (Nat. ord. Myrtacese.) 



For Gen. Char, see this Order in the Manual. 



-EjUGENIA ALTERNIFOLIA. (Wight.) A large tree, glabrous in all its parts, leaves alternate or occasionally sub-opposite 

 never oppoaite, very minutely and inconspicuously dotted, very thickly coriaceous, from ovate to almost orbicular, quite rounded at 

 the apex or with a rather sudden blunt acumination, 3-9 inches long of which the petiole is 1 inch or a little more, dark green and 

 shining above much paler beneath, primary veins very numerous obliquely parallel prominent and joined into a very regular con- 

 tinuous vein close to the margin, cymes panicled rising from the old axils of the fallen leaves or congested near the base of the new 

 wood, divisions with 3-10 umbellate flowers at the apex and there furnished with numerous triangular apiculate bracteoles, flowers 

 small yellowish white very sweet scented, calyx viscid and shining truncated and entire or with 4 very minute teeth, petals combined 

 In a transparent calyptra which is thrust off by the anthers as they begin to swell before expansion, fruit sub-spherical size of a cherry. 

 Wight Icones tab. 537. 



It would require a very large plate to do justice to this beautiful species, the tree is common on the Nallay Mallay mountains in the 

 Kurnool district, (where it is called Manchi 3/oyadi, Teligoo) and is also found but less abundantly in the dry hill forests of the Cuddapah and 

 North Arcot districts ; it does not occur on the western side of the Presidency. Its regularly alternate leaves are anomalous, but there is a tendency 

 to this in some of the other species (montana and hemisphcerica, &c), its flowers are quite those of the other species of Syzygium (and are incorrectly 

 figured in Wight's Icones as like the Jambosa section.) The dissections are drawn from fresh specimens, and the fruit is only half grown; the timber 

 is used by the natives for building and other purposes. 



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