214 ALABASTRA B0RNEENS1A. 



ly grayish. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to broadly oblong-elliptic,. 

 13 to 20 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm, wide, coriaceous, shining, sub- 

 equally narrowed to the blunt-acuminate apex and to the acute 

 or somewhat decurrent-acuminate base, the upper surface 

 olivaceous to blackish-brown, the lower surface usually casta- 

 neous when dry; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the 

 midrib, slender, spreading, nearly straight, usually not pro- 

 minent on either surface, anastomosing with the single pair of 

 marginal nerves at 3 to -i mm.^from the edge of the leaf, the 

 reticulations lax, indistinct, usually . obsolete on the upper 

 surface : petioles stout, rugose, usually black when dry, 1 to 1.5 

 cm. long. Panicles terminal, subeorymbose, 8 to 10 cm. long, 

 branched from the base, the flowers subcapitately arranged, 

 3 to 6 at the tip of each ultimate branchlet, about 1.5 cm. long, 

 sessile. Calyx turbinate, narrowed below, sometimes longitu- 

 dinally striate, about 8 mm. long and 6 mm. wide, the lobes -i, 

 unequal, reniform. 



Sarawak, Kuching and vicinity, Native collector 258 

 (type), 813, 1625, 1882, 2138 (Bur. ScL), Hewitt, November,. 

 1905 ; Santubong, Hewitt, January, 1907; Samatan, Foxworthy 

 152, May, 1908. 



Judging from the number of collections this species must" 

 be common in Sarawak; native names recorded are uba jambu 

 and uba nijali. Its alliance is manifestly with Eugenia grandis, 

 Wight, from which it is at once distinguished by its obsure 

 reticulations and the entire absence of the second pair of 

 marginal veins. The forms described by Blume as Jambosa 

 grandis and Jambosa firma are apparently both referable to 

 Eugenia grandis, Wight, but Jambosa urceolata, Korth., des- 

 cribed from Bornean material, reduced by Blume as a variety 

 of J. grandis, is interpreted by King as an entirely different 

 species, Eugenia urceolata, (Ivorth.) King. 



Eugenia grandis, Wight. 111. 2 (1841-50) 17. 



Jambosa grandis, Blume, Mus. Bet. 1 (1849) 108. 

 Jambosa firma, Blume, I.e. 



Sarawak, Samatan, Foxicortliy 173, back of the man- 

 grove, May, 1908, Malay uba. 



Burma, to Penang, the Malay Peninsula, and. Singapore. 



Eugenia sarawacensis, sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus ; foliis oppositis. 

 coriaceis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 9 cm. 

 longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice 

 obtuse acuminatis, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, eglandulosis 

 vel subtus obscurissime puncticulatis, basi tenuiter 5-plinerviis, 

 paribus interioribus majoribus inter lateralibus hand arcuatis, 



Jour. Straits Branch' 



