EUGENIA ZEYLANICA. (Nat. order Myrtaceue.) 

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



EUGENIA ZEYLANICA- (Wight,) A small or middling sized tree, glabrous in all its parts, leaves opposite rarely 

 alternate or subalternate, densely glanduloso-punctate, very variable in shape from narrow linear to ovato-lancenlate ; 1-4 inches long 

 by 1£ to 10 lines broad, veins penni veined very inconspicuous, petioles 1-4 lines long, cymes axillary and terminal dense many flowered, 

 shorter than the leaveSj flowers white conspicuous about \ an inch long, calyx-tube glandular and sometimes pruinose, elongato-turbi- 

 nate, lobes 4-5, rather conspicuous triangular, petals crenated very early deciduous, opening separately or falling off in a calyptra. 

 Wight's III. ii. p. 15. Acmena Zeylanica, Thw. En. PL Zey. p. 118. 



Var. B. laxiflora flowers in lax few-flowered cymes, panicles longer than the leaves. 



This tree is common on the' South Tinnevelly mountains up to 3500 feet where it generally affects beds of rivers, and in Ceylon where 

 it is called Morang ; it is very beautiful when in full flower. This illustrates the Acmena section of Eugenia, which only differs from Syzygium 

 in its long calyx-lube. 



Variety B. has exactly the foliage aud flowers of the ordinary form, and. only differs in its longer lax cymes. 



Fig. A. is a flower branch of the ordinary narrow leaved variety. 



Fig. B. leaves of the broader leaved variety. 



Fig. C. a leaf and cyme of variety B. 



Analysis. 



1. A bud. 



2. A flower, the petals falling off in a crenated calyptra a3 the anthers swell before expansion. 



3. A calyx showing the insertion of the anthers at the apex of the tube, and a single petal, the petals haviug opened and fallen 



off separately. 



4. A flower after the anthers have opened out. 



5. Anther, front view. 



6. Anther, back view. 



7. Flower cut vertically, showing the calyx tube produced above the ovary, and section of the ovary. 



8. Ovary cut transversely. 



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