Engenia.'] 



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Bark grey, smooth, scaly. Wood light brown, smooth, soft. Pores 

 small, uniformly distributed. Med. rays fine, indistinct. Annual rings 

 not very clear. Weighs 54 lbs. to the cub. ft. Fruit black, edible. 



9. E. utilis, Talb., sp. nov. Herb. No. 3644 ; Jour. Bo. Nat. Hist. See. 

 Vol. XI. 235. t. 3. Hennerl, K. 



A large, quite glabrous tree, branches terete. Leaves coriaceous, 

 elliptic, abruptly and shortly acuminate, acute at the base, conspicuoasly 

 gland-dotted; blade 3-2 by 1'5 — 1 in. ; petiole '3 in. long; lateral nerves 

 close, rather inconspicuous. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal 

 corymbose, panicled cymes shorter than the leaves, sessile, usually 

 fascicled in threes on the cyme branches ; buds globose or pear-shaped, *! 

 in. in diameter. Calyx shortly turbinate, scarcely lobed or tmncate. 

 Petals separate or slightly cohering. Fruit small, black, succulent. 



A fine tree with a straight, cylindrical trunk, and grey, scaly bark. 

 Wood tough of a reddish brown colour. Pores moderate sized, sub- 

 divided and in short rows. Medullary rays moderately broad, in- 

 distinct. Weighs 42 lbs. to the cub. ft. Greatly in demand throughout 

 the Sirsi sub-division of North Kanara for building purposes. This 

 tree is pretty common in evergreen or on the borders of evergreen forests 

 in the southern parts of North Kdnara. It comes near lissophyllat 

 Thw., and could not be matched at Kew. 



10. E. kanarensis, Talb., sp. nov. Herb, No. 3552 ; Jour. Bo. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Vol. XI. 236. t. 4. 



A very large, glabrous, evergreen tree with smooth, white, terete 

 branchlets. Leaves ovate, long or shortly acuminate, acute at the base, 

 thin, shining, minutely gland-dotted ; blade 4-2 by '75^ — 1-5 in. ; petiole 

 •5 in. long, nerves numerous, fine, distinct, anastomosing just within the 

 margin in a fine line. Flowers small, in open, spreading, axillary or 

 terminal corymbs, shorter than the leaves, cyme branches slender. Buds 

 small, '09 in. in diameter, globose. Calyx elongate, turbinate, broad at 

 the top, narrowed at the base into a short pedicel, scarcely 4-5-lobed or 

 truncate. Petals free or slightly cohering, orbicular. Fruit not seen. 



A smooth-barked tree, found on the Gairsoppah Gh^t above Mulafnune 

 at an elevation of about 2000 ft. The following note about this tree 

 was received from Kew. *' This is not E, cymosa, Lam., but is probably 

 identical with a specimen collected by Bourdillon in Travancore and 

 named Eugenia sp. near E, GardnerV^ 



11. E. Stocksii, Duthie. Fl. Br. I. 2. 498. Konkan, Stocks; 

 Wynaad, Bedd. A lofty tree with acutely 4-angled branches. I am un- 

 acquainted with this species and give it on the authority of the Fl. Br. 

 I. as having been found in the Konkan by Dr. Stocks. 



12. E. Jambolana, Lam. Diet. IIL 198; Fl. Br. I. 2. 499; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 197 ; Brandis For. Fl. 233. Syz. Jambolammi^ DO. ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 93. Black Plum. Janibul, M. ; Nerlu, K. 



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