NAT. ORDER. 
MyrtacecB. 
JAMBOSA VULGARIS. ROSE APPLE. 
Class XII. IcosANDRiA. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Tube of the Calyx turbinate. Lobes roundish. Petals 
four. Stamens numerous. Style filiform. Stigma simple, 
acute. Cotyledofis fleshy, thick. Mowers large, bractless. 
Spe. Char. Racemes cymose, terminal. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 
six or seven inches long. Fruit ovate, globose. 
This is an extraordinary evergreen tree^ from twenty to thirty, and 
sometimes even forty feet high, with a bushy but not close head of 
shining, fine daxk-green foliage ; quite smooth in all its parts ; hark 
of the stem and branches cracked, but clean and even, and of a red- 
dish brown ; the stem rarely exceeds nine inches or a foot in diame- 
ter ; branches not much spreading, densely leafy towards the ends ; 
the ultimate ones drooping from the weight of the fruit and flowers; 
all round, smooth and even ; leaves opposite, lanceolate, six or eight 
inches long, and one and a half or two inches broad, attenuated at 
the base, gradually accuminate at the apex, coriaceous, firm, and 
stiffish, rather faintly veined and punctate, dark shining green 
above — paler and opaque beneath, and the younger ones and shoots 
of a bright cinnamon red ; petioles short, stout, channelled, and not 
more than one-fourth of an inch long ; Jlowers large, handsome, very 
pale yellowish or greenish white, with a slight fragrance of Prim- 
roses or Cowslips ; generally in terminal, small, loose, short cymes or 
bunches ; occasionally lateral from the axils towards the ends of the 
branches ; peduncles either simple, bifid or trifid — usually the latter, 
Vol. iv.— 116. 
