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41. MYRTACE2E. 



[Eitgenia. 



Throughout India and Ceylon, from the plains up to 4 — 5000 feet 

 altitude, Malay Archipelago to Australia. Throughout the presidency 

 both wild and cultivated, common in the moist forests of North Kdnara 

 and the Konkan. Fl. Mch. - Apl. Fr. July-Aug. 



A large tree with smooth whitish bark, 1 in. thick ; inner bark rather 

 soft, dark brown, fibrous. 



Wood reddish grey, moderately hard. Pores moderate sized and small, 

 elongated and subdivided. Med. rays fine, numerouSy crossed by faint 

 concentric bands of soft tissue. Weighs 45 lbs. to the cub. ft. Fairly 

 durable. Used for building purposes and agricultural implements, also 

 for the construction of wells. The fruit is an article of food, eaten by all 

 classes of natives. 



13. E. Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 3599 (Syzygium) ; Fi. Br. I. 2. 500; 

 Syz. salicifolium^ Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 94, not of Wall. salicifolia^ 

 Grab. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 109 ; Wight. Icones, t. 639. Fan jamhul, hedas, JVJ. 



Western peninsula, Berars and the Central Provinces. In the beds of 

 streams and rivers ; common throughout the Konkan and North Kanara. 

 FL Mch. -April. Fr. ripe June. 



A Small tree, sometimes only a large shrub. Wood similar to that of 

 E. Jambolanaf but pores smaller. Gamble. 



14. E. macrosepala, Duthie. Fl. Br. I. 2. 501. Locally on the 

 North Kanara ghats, in evergreen forests. 



A large shrub or small tree, very abundant on the Dodmune ghat of 

 N. Kanara. Fl. Jan.- Apl. Fr, Aug. 



15. E. Mooniana, Wgt. Ic. II. 551 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 505 ; var. gracilis, 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 110. Nilghiris, Si vaghiris, Konkan and Ceylon. Ever- 

 green forests of the Konkan and North Kanara, common in the forests 

 near Kirwd-r on the coast. Fl. Feb. -Mch. Fr. Aug.-Jany, 



An erect or prostrate shrub with a red succulent fruit. 



Dalz. and Gibs, mention a tree from the Phoonda gh^t. £. Wilde- 

 novii^ DC, which may be E. uniflora^ Linn., a cultivated species native 

 of S.^ America. 



16. E. memeeylifolia, Talb., sp. nov. Herb. No. 3127; Jour. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Bomb. Vo\, XI. 236. t. v. 



A small evergreen tree, leaves ovate, bluntly acuminate, coriaceous, 

 glandular dotted, shortly petioled ; blade 1*5 — 2 by 1 — 1*5 in.; petiole 

 •2 — 5*4 in. long. Flowers white, sessile or subsessile, '5 in. across solitary 

 or 2-several fascicled in the leaf axils. Bracts 2, broad-ovate, small, 

 thick, leathery, tomentose when young. Calyx lobes 4, ovate, imbricate, 

 tomentose, ciliate on the margins, glandular dotted. Petals 4, spreading. 

 Staminal disk broad, enlarged. Style simple. Fruit white, succulent, 

 irregularly globose, *75-l in. in diameter. Seeds 1-2, globose, flattened 

 on one side, '5 in. in diameter, glabrous ; episperm crustaceous, mottled. 

 In quite ripe fruits the seeds lie loose in the swollen, succulent; white 

 pericarp. 



