N, O. MYRTACEiE. 555 



A large or moderate-sized evergreen tree. Leaves turn- 

 ing red in the cold season. Bark, grey or light brown, rough, 

 with irregular hard scales, leaving cavities when they exfoliate. 

 Wood reddish grey, hard, rough (Gamble). Branch lets sub- 

 terete or 4-ginous. Leaves 3-8 by 2-4in., opposite, subcoriace- 

 ous, soft, dots often black (in the dried specimens), rarely 

 pellucid, broadly ovate or elliptic-rounded at the apex, or 

 obtusely acuminate, narrowed below ; lateral nerves 8-12 pair, 

 prominent beneath, gradually fainter towards the margin, curv- 

 ing into a faint intra- marginal vein. Petiole i-fin., or even lin. 

 Flowers tetramerous, small, greenish, odorous, subsessile. 

 Cymes arranged in trichotomous lateral panicles below the 

 current year's leaves, "mostly from scars of fallen leaves" 

 (Duthie). Peduncles long, acutely-angled.. Calyx campanulate, 

 with short obtuse lobes, or nearly truncate. Petals united and 

 falling off in one piece (operculum). Berry globose or ovoid, 

 i-|in., rugose, juicy, edible. 



Part used :— The fruit, root, leaves and bark. 



Use : — The fruit is eaten for rheumatism, the root, boiled 

 down to the consistence of gur, is applied to the joints by 

 rubbing ; the leaves are much used in dry fomentation ; the bark 

 is also employed medicinally (Revel. A. Campbell, in Watt's 

 Dictionary). 



505. E; Jambolana, Lam. h.f.b.i., ii. 499, 

 Roxb. 398. 



Syn. : — Sizygium Jambolanum, D. C. 



Sans. : — Jamboo. 



Vern. : — Jaman, jam, jamun (H.) ; Kalajam (B,); Chambu 

 (Garo) ; Jamu (Ass.); Naval, naga (Tarn.); Nasodu, nairuri 

 (Tel.); Jambul (Bomb.) ; Jambura (Guz.) 



Hahitat : — Common throughout the plains of India. 



A large evergreen tree, usually with a rather crooked stem 

 and many branches. Bark lin. thick, light grey, with large 

 patches of darker colour, smooth, with shallow depressions caused 

 by exfoliation. Wood reddish grey, rough, moderately hard, 

 darker near the centre, no distinct heartwood. Leaves, coriace- 

 ous, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate; blade 3-6in., petiole i-1 in. 



