EUGENIA CYLINDRICA. (Nat. order Myrtacese.) 



ior Gen. Char- see under this Order in the Manual. 



EUGENIA CYLINDRICA. (Wight) A middling sized tree, glabrous in all its parts, leaves opposite coriaceous, very 

 minutely dotted, ovate tolauceolate witli a long terminal acumination, 4-6 inches long by 1|-1| broad, veins very conspicuous beneath, 

 and forming double loops the inner of which is very prominent and only a little more than \ way between the costa and margin, 

 petioles 3-4 lines long, cymes terminal or from the upper axils shorter than the leaves, 3-8 flowered, flowers large \ to nearly I inch in 

 diameter in full expansion white turning purple, calyx tube cylindrical slender £ to nearly 1 inch long slightly contracted at the apex 

 and tapering at the base, petals orbicular dotted, fruit subsphsrical urceolate \ to £ inch in diameter. Wight Icones tab, 527- Jam- 

 bosa cylindiica, Thw. En. PI. Zey.p. 115. 



A very beautiful tree when in flower, Ceylon Ambaganiw% district 3000 feet elevation, it has not been detected in the peninsula but pre 

 bably occurs on our Tinnevelly mountains. Eugenia Wightii {described in the Manual) so common in our forests, is an allied species, but differs in 

 its flowers being always solitary and much larger though with a shorter tube, and in its leaves being much more membranceous with a different 

 venation, Thii illustrates the section Jambosa. 



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