512 PHANEROGAMIA. 



cyma multiflora; pedunculi communi partialibusque brevissimis, 

 fructiferis incrassatis ; calycis tubo turbinate, Umbo quadrifido; fructu 

 obovoideo-iirceolato. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands ; common in woods. 



This is said to be a "shrub, with a weak stem, 10 to 15 feet high; 

 the young stems square." The ultimate branchlets are sharply four- 

 angled, the angles strongly margined, or often winged. Leaves charta- 

 ceous in texture, rather lucid above, glabrous, as is the whole plant, 

 oblong-lanceolate, with a more or less pointed apex and an obtuse base, 

 on a very short petiole (of about 2 lines in length) : they are 7 to 9 

 lines long, 2 or 3 wide, pellucid-punctate by transmitted light, rather 

 closely feather-veined: the veins running into a submarginal vein. 

 There are only fruiting specimens in the collection, or enlarged 

 ovaries from which the petals, stamens, and style have entirely fallen. 

 The cyme is terminal and solitary, many -flowered and apparently 

 dense, very short-peduncled, its primary, secondary, and tertiary 

 branches all very short (2 or 3 lines in length) and much thickened. 

 The immature fructiferous calyx is turbinate and somewhat clavate, 

 8 or 9 lines long, terete, smooth and even, with a short four-cleft 

 limb; the lobes coriaceous, rounded. Ovary two-celled. Kipe fruit 

 obovoid and urn-shaped, an inch in length, " red," crowned with the 

 erect calyx-lobes, one-celled, one-seeded. Cotyledons thickened, cor- 

 neous, united. 



This should be compared with Jambosa pterocaulis of Korthals, 

 which I know only by the brief phrase copied by Walpers, where the 

 leaves are said to be cordate at the base. 



4. Eugenia (Jambosa) neurocalyx, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 59.) 



K ramulis teretibus ; foliis brevissime petiolatis elongato-oblongis seu 

 eUiptico-lanceolatis obtusissimis basi subcordatis chartaceis crebre penni- 

 nerviisj floribus in capitulum sessile congestis ; calycis tubo cylin- 

 draceo pluricostato, limbo ampliato fructifero crateriformi quadrilobo. 



Hab. Feejee Islands, at Muthuata and Ovolau : "planted near 

 houses." 



