528 PHANEROGAMIA. 



calyx-tube of Garyophyllus, but the other characters are those of 

 Syzygium, although the fruit is more elongated than usual. It is 

 probably a congener of Blume's three Javan species referred to Caryo- 

 phyllus in DeCandolle's Prodromus, although the flower-buds are 

 insipid and inodorous: but it cannot be generically separated from 

 the preceding species and its near allies. 



Plate 64. — Eugenia (Syzygium) corynocarpa : branches in flower 

 and in fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower- 

 bud. 2. A flower, with the corolla separating as a lid. 3. Trans- 

 verse section of the ovary. 4. A fruit. 5. Vertical section of the 

 same, showing the seed, &c. 6. Transverse section of a fruit and 

 seed. 7. Embryo. 8. The same, with the cotyledons separated. — 

 The details magnified. 



■j~j" Floras majores; limbo calycis magis quadrilobo, lobis cestivatione imbricatis dtmutn 

 scepius deciduis. (Transitus ad Microjambosam, Blume.) 



28. Eugenia (Syzygium) clusl&folia, Sp. Nov. (Tab. Go.) 



E. foliis ohovatis seu ovalibus bad cuneatis a pice rotundatis nunc retusis 

 cliartaceis creberrime penninerviis reticulatis supra lucid is ; cymis ter- 

 minalibus decompositis jMniculato-corymbosis imdtifluris ; ptiduncuHs 

 teretibus; alabastris obovoideo-turbinatis carnosis; calycis margins 

 tenui repandoquadrilobo. 



Hab. Samoan Islands, Tutuila and Savaii : on rocks near the sea. 



Apparently a tree of considerable size, glabrous throughout, with 

 terete branchlets. Leaves obovate or inclining to oval, icith a cuncate 

 base, rounded and often retuse at the apex, sometimes rather apiculatc, 

 4 or 5 inches long, 2i to 3 broad, cliartaceom or somewhat coriaceous, 

 green both sides, dull beneath, lucid above, pellucid-punctate, umvp- 

 cuou&ly feather-veined with very close and slender somewhat transverse 

 veins, which run almost straight to near the margin, where they unite 

 with a slender intramarginal vein; the veinlets reticulated. Petiole 

 4 or 5 lines long. Cymes apparently collected in an ample comjxmnd 

 corymbose panicle, of 8 or 10 inches in length j ihe peduncles and their 



