with cream or in tarts. 1 have also eaten it as a preserve stewed 
in syrup, and coloured red with Hibiscus dowers. 
The tree is readily grown from seed and is wortli cultivating. 
It is liable to attacks from Coccidae , and the leaves especially in 
weak trees are often covered with galls. 
E. jambosy L PJ Jambu Kelampok, is a smaller tree of more strag- 
gling habit with narrower lanceolate leaves and large white flowers 
borne on the ends of the branches. It is commonly cultivated. 
1 he fruit is the largest of all the cultivated Eugenias. Like the 
Jambu bol it is rather flavourless and dry, but greenish white in 
colour. “Near Calcutta the fruiting branches are covered with a 
cloth which is believed to improve the size and flavour of the fruit. 
A preserve is sometimes made of the fruit.'' (Watt’s Diet.) 
E. Javanica, Lam., is a very big tree with smaller rounded fruits 
green or white, with us rather dry, but eaten by all classes ot 
people in India and said to be juicy and refreshing though almost 
tasteless. 
E. aquea, Burm,, Jambu Ayer Mawar, Rose apple is a large or 
medium sized shrub with white flowers on the ends of the branches. 
The fruits are very pretty, turbinate about an inch across the top, 
white, pink, or dark rose colour and translucent. The flesh soft 
and watery with a slight rose flavour. 
The shrub fruits in May, and the fruit is very popular with 
natives, and also used by Europeans. 
E. zevlanicay Wight, is a common sea-shore shrub with small 
white fruits produced in considerable abundance. The fruits about 
as large as peas, are pithy and dry but with an aromatic pleasant 
taste. - 
E. nniflora . A native of South America, is a large shrub with 
small leaves and white flowers, the fruit of which is about an inch 
across flattened at the top and grooved down the sides, and ol a 
bright red, somewhat suggesting a small tomato. The fruit is soft 
sweet and with a somewhat turpentiney taste, when quite ripe its 
flavour more resembles that of a strawberry than anything else. 
It grows readily from seed and though not a heavy fruiter is well 
worth growing. In Brazil it is often grown as a hedge or alley 
plant in gardens. 
E. Braziliensis. Said to possess an excellent eating fruit, has 
been for some years cultivated in the Botanic Gardens, but though 
it has flowered has not fruited yet. 
The Brazil-nut, Beriholletia cxcelsa a large tree has been cultiva- 
ted in the Botanic Gardens since 1884, but only flowered and fruited 
for the first time in 1897, "’hen it produced one or two of its large 
capsules containg the seeds known as Brazil-nuts, since then it has 
fruited occasionally nearly every year. 
Melastomace^e. 
Contain hardly any eatable fruits. Those of the Senduduk, ab- 
surdly called the Singapore Rhododendron, M elasto ma polyanthum, 
are sweet but rather dry, they stain the mouth black whence the 
name of the order. 
