EUGENIA FLOCCOSA. (Nat. Ord. Myrtacea.) 



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



EUGENIA FLOCCOSA. (Bedd.) A good sized tree, young branches nearly terete densely floccose, leaves opposite, oval 

 or sub-orbicular or sometimes lanceolate obtuse at the apex, densely floccose on both sides when young, at length glabrous above and 

 ultimately so beneath except the costa, very thick and coriaceous, minutely dotted beneath, 3-5 inches long by 2-3| broad, veins quite 

 inconspicuous except in dried specimens, penniveined with the usual marginal looping or occasionally sub 3 nerved at the base, the 

 2 lateral nerves not prominent and forming the waved marginal vein, petioles densely floccose 6-8 lines long, flowers terminal in very 

 short few flowered cymes or sometimes solitary large about 1 inch in expansion, calyx very coriaceous and densely aureo-or rufo-lanate 

 furnished at the base with 2 very large bracteoles of the same texture as the 4 rounded lobes, petals much larger than the calyx lobes 

 white very hairy on the outside subglabrous within, soon deciduous, disk large sub-globose lanate, fruit size of a pigeon's egg densely 

 lanate crowned with the 4 large orbicular calyx lobes. 



This is a most beautiful tree very common in the dense moist woods on the South Tinneveily ghats (above CaleadJ 3000-4000 feet 

 elevation, flowering in August and September ; this illustrates- the restricted genus Eugenia of authors who uphold the genera Syzygium, Jambosa. 

 &c, or the section Eueugenia of the gemis as given in this Manual, the dissections ai e from flowers in spirit. 



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