Fugenia.] 
LI. MYRTACE^. 
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in dense trichotomous cymes, either terminal or in the upper axils. Calyx-tube 
thick, turbinate, shortly produced above the ovary, about 3 lines long ; lobes 4, 
broad and short but unequal, wearing oft' after flowering. Petals usually spreading 
and falling off separately. Fruit globular, white, 1 to 2in. diameter, with 1 or 2 
seeds, or smaller with 1 seed. — E. cgmosa, Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 402, not of Lam.; 
E.firma, Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 3603; Syzygium grande, Walp. Rep. ii. 180; 
Jambosa grandis and J. firm a , Blume, Mus. Bot. i. 108; Eugenia fortis, F. v. M. 
Fragm. v. 13. 
Hab.: Lizard Islands, Banks and Solander ; Albany Island, W. Hill: Rockingham Bay, 
Dallachy. 
The species is widely spread over the eastern provinces of India and the Archipelago. It is 
placed by Wight in the section Syzygium and by Blume in Jambosa, and is in some respects 
intermediate between the two. — Benth. 
Wood light-brown, close-grained, hard, and tough ; might serve for staves for rum-casks ; 
suitable for building purposes. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 226. 
16. E. Johnsoni (after Stephen Johnson), E. v. M. Viet. Nat., April 1892. 
A glabrous tree of about 40ft. in height ; branchlets almost cylindric. Leaves 
seldom over 3in. long and lfin. broad, often smaller, of firm consistence, mostly 
ovate-lanceolate, much contracted towards the blunt summit, gradually narrowed 
into a conspicuous petiole, rather prominently pinnate-veined ; oil-dots concealed. 
Inflorescence 2fin. long or less ; peduncles slender, axillary or terminal. 
Bracteoles narrow, fugacious. Calyx before expansion clavate-ovate ; tube 
smooth, passing gradually into the pedicel ; lobes 4, rather large, almost semi- 
ovate. Petals not much larger than the calyx-lobes. Anthers narrow-elliptic. 
Fruit 1-seeded, from fin. to about lin. in diameter, red ; pericarp rather thick, 
of subacid and aromatic flavour. Seed turgidly ovate, its cotyledons one above 
the other. The unexpanded flowers resemble those of some Eucalypti, and impart 
to this species a peculiar appearance. — F. v. M. l.c. 
Hab.: Mount Bartle Frere, Stephen Johnson. 
This is the species I alluded to in my report of the botany of the Bellenden Her Expedition as 
a probable form of E. grandis, but then no fruit was obtainable. 
17. E. suborbicularis (leaves nearly round), Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 285. 
“ Oloorgo,” Mitchell River, Palmer ; “ Pudginjacker,” Bloomfield River, and 
“ Esie,” Batavia River, Roth. A tree attaining a considerable size, quite 
glabrous. Leaves broadly obovate or almost orbicular, very obtuse, 4 to 6in. 
long, on a rather long petiole, coriaceous but not so thick and shining as in 
E. grandis, with numerous parallel diverging veins, confluent within the margin, 
and finely reticulate between them. Flowers large, in a short terminal tricho- 
tomous cyme. Calyx-tube narrow-turbinate, 7 to 8 lines long, broad and 
campanulate above the ovary ; lobes 4, broad, the inner ones nearly fin. diameter, 
with scarious margins, the outer ones rather smaller. Petals spreading and 
separately deciduous, the larger outer one nearly fin. diameter. Stamens exceed- 
ingly numerous, readily separable in the bud into 4 parcels. Ovules ascending. 
Fruit globose or oblong, over 2in. long. 
Hab.: Cape York and Endeavour River, W. Hill; N.E. coast, A. Cunningham; Somerset. 
Ripe fruit eaten. 
Wood of a dark-grey colour, with peculiar corky concentric rings several inches asunder, on 
which account the natives of the Johnstone choose the trunks of this tree for making their 
canoes. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 227. 
18. E. Wilsonii (after E. Wilson), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 12; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 285. Glabrous. Leaves broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 5 to 6in. long, 
rounded at the base, with a short petiole, finely and transversely penniveined. 
Flowers large, in a short dense terminal cyme almost contracted into a head. 
Calyx-tube very narrow-turbinate, about 4 lines long ; lobes 4, rounded, about 
1 line diameter and nearly equal. Petals about If line diameter, separately 
