EUGENIA HEMISPHiERICA. (Nat. order Myrtacese.) 



For Gen. Char, see Manual under tbis Order. 



EUGENIA. HEMISPHiERICA. (Wight.) A large tree, glabrous in all its parts, leaves opposite, rarely subalternate 

 minutely dotted lanceolate attenuated at the base, acuminate at the apex, veins inconspicuous above slightly promiuent beneath, looped 

 near the margin and there forming a more or less irregular continuous vein, 2-6 inches long by \-2 iuches broad, petioles 6-7 lines long, 

 cymes axillary and terminal shorter than the leaves many flowered, flowers large white variable iu size up 1 \ inches in diameter, calyx- 

 tube subglobose, disk tetragonal 4-5 lines in diameter, petals orbicular dotted, fruit spherical about 1 inch in diameter. Wight Icones 

 tab. 525. Strongylocalyx hemisphsericus, Bl. Mus. Bot. p. 90. 



This very handsome tree attains a large size and is common in our mountain forests from South Canara down to Cape Comorin at 

 about 3000 feet elevation, it is abundant in Goorg, the A namallags, and Tinnevellg ghats, and it is also found in Ceylon up to 4000 feel; the timber 

 is used for a variety of purposes. The drawing is taken from Coorg specimens. Blume separates this as a distinct genus under the name of Strongy- 

 localyx on account of its rounded {instead of cylindrical) calyx tube audits tetragonal disk, it has certainly no claims to generic distinction nor 

 need it be even kept sectionally distinct from Jambosa. Eugenia lanceolaria is closely allied if indeed a distinct species. 



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