EUGENIA MALABARICA. (Nat. order Myrtacese.) 



For Gen. Char, see under this Order iu the Manual. 



EUGENIA. ]VLa.LA.BARICA. (Bedd.) A middling sized tree, quite glabrous in all its parts, young branches terete, 

 leaves opposite, (rarely only subopposite) furnished with numerous very minute dots on the under surface, obovate spathulate or quite 

 obcordate, rarely oblong, penniveined with the marginal looping inconspicuous, 2-5 inches long by 1-2| inches broad, petioles 4-6 lines 

 long, cymes from the old wood below the leaves or rarely in the lower axils very short about \ an inch long, flowers numerous very 

 small and inconspicuous bracteolate, calyx-tube when young with 4 rather distinct triangular lobes, iu age more or less truncate about 

 1 line in diameter, petals orbicular with a slight claw and pointed at the apex opening separately and very soon deciduous, fruit 

 spherical about 3 lines in diameter. 



This tree is very common in ike Wynad(in Malabar), elevation 2000 4500 feit, qe lerally in sv) i-npy places, ani I have also specimens 

 from the Anamallays : it is a very distinct species. I have introduced it here as illustrating the section of Sysygium with free petals insteccd of 

 the usual calyptra-like conjunction of the 4 petals, this difference however could not be mxde even a subjection of Sysygium, as some of the 

 species present both forms in one and the same cyme, the dissections are drawn from fresh specimens. 



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