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Timonius jambosella Thw. Gaertner's description is in part 

 some species of Eugenia. The plant here considered appears 

 in herbaria generally under the name Decaspermum paniculatum 

 Kurz, but from material before me I can see no reason for con- 

 sidering it specifically distinct from the type of the genus, 

 Decaspermum fruticosum Forst. The species is somewhat 

 variable. It is a common and widely distributed plant in Malaya 

 and Polynesia. 



EUGENIA Linnaeus 



EUGENIA CARYOPHYLLATA Thunb. Diss. (1788) 1. 



Caryophyllus aromaticus Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 515, non Eugenia aro- 

 matica Berg. 



Caryophyllus silvestris Teysm. ex Hassk. in Abh. Naturf. Gesellsch. 



Halle 9 (1866) 167 [Neue Schlussel (1866) 25] (type!). 

 Caryophyllum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 1, t. 1. 

 Caryophyllum regium Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 10, t. 2. 

 Caryophyllum silvestre Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 12, t. 3. 

 Amboina, Kati-kati, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 201, October, 1913, from 

 cultivated trees, locally known as chenki. 



I can see no valid reason for considering that more than 

 one species is represented by the three forms figured and de- 

 scribed by Rumphius, although Teysmann, quoted by Hasskarl, 

 Neue Schlussel (1866) 25, makes Caryophyllum silvestre Rumph. 

 the type of Caryophyllus silvestris Teysm. The first figure 

 represents the normal cultivated form, the second a form with 

 somewhat fasciated inflorescences, while the third apparently 

 represents the wild form of the same species. All three figures 

 were originally reduced by Linneaus to Caryophyllus aromaticus 

 Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 8, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 

 120, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 735, and this reduction has been very 

 generally accepted as the correct disposition of all three. 



EUGENIA AQUEA Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 114 (type!). 

 Jambosa aquea DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 288 (type!). 

 Cerocarpus aqueus Hassk. in Flora 25 (1842) Beibl. 36 (type!). 

 Eugenia mindanaensis C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) 

 Bot. 363. 



Jambosa aquea Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 126, t. 38, f. 2. 

 Jambosa aquea altera Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1 : 126. 



Amboina, Hoenoet, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 192, from cultivated trees, 

 locally known as jambu ayer. 



Jambosa aquea Rumph. is the whole basis of Eugenia aquea 

 Burm. f. and is generally cited in botanical literature under 

 Jambosa aquea DC. It was erroneously referred by Lamarck 

 to Eugenia javdnica Lam. and by Pritzel to Eugenia racemosa 



