PLANTS OF PLUNCE OF WALES ISLAND. 95 



PUNICA. 



Panica granatum. The Pomegranate. Booa Delema. Mai. 

 Cultivated. 



Lagerstroemia. 



Lagerstroemia reginae, Willd. 2, p. 1178. 



Roxb. Corom. 1, p. 46, t. 65. Pretty common, and 

 grows without cultivation ; but having only seen it near to 

 present or former European habitations I cannot say whether 

 or not it is indigenous. 



PENTAGYNIA. 



Mespilus. 



Mespilus pomifera, Roxb. (Eriobotrua japonica Lindl.). 



"Arboreous; Leaves lanceolate, very acute, serrate, downy 

 underneath : Panicle terminal. Fruit obovate, villous." 

 Loquat of jthe Chinese. There are many young trees, but 

 none far enough advanced to bear fruit. 



POLYGYNIA. 

 Rubus. 

 Bubus viohtccanus, Willd. 2, 1086. 



"Folijs simplicibus cordatis, sub-lobatis, caule aculeato 

 decumbente. Thunb jap." 219. Rubus moluccanus latifolius. 

 Rumph. 5, t. 47, f. 2. 



Found on the top and the sides of the hill. Fruit ripe in 

 May. (No doubt B. glomeratus which is frequent there is 

 very closely allied to B. ?noluccanus Roxb. 



Frag aria. 



A plant of this genus grows on the top of the hill, but I 

 did not ascertain the species. The fruit is small and insipid. 

 It is doubtless F. malayana of Dr. Roxburgh. (No species of 

 strawberry is known to be indigenous to the peninsula). 



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