N. O. MYRTA0E2E. 
555 
A large or moderate-sized evergreen tree. Leaves turn- 
ing red in the cold season. Bark, grey or light brown, rough, 
with irregular hard scales, leaving cavities when they exfoliate. 
Wood reddish grey, hard, rough (Gamble). Branchlets sub- 
terete or 4-ginou8. Leaves 3-8 by 2-4in., opposite, subcoriace- 
ous, soft, dots often black (in the dried specimens), rarely 
pellucid, broadly ovate or elliptic-rounded at the apex, or 
obtusely acuminate, narrowed below ; lateral nerves 8-12 pair, 
prominent beneath, gradually fainter towards the margin, curv- 
ing into a faint intra- marginal vein. Petiole 'J-fin., or even lin. 
Flowers tetramerous, small, greenish, odorous, subsessile. 
Cymes arranged in trichotomous lateral panicles below the 
current year’s leaves, <l mostly from scars of fallen leaves 
(Duthie). Peduncles long, afcutely-angled. Calyx campanulate, 
with short obtuse . lobes, or nearly truncate. Petals united and 
falling off in one piece (operculum). Berry globose or ovoid, 
4-|in., rugose, juicy, edible. 
Part used : — The fruit, root, leaves and bark 
Use-. — The fruit is eaten for rheumatism, the root, boiled 
down to the . consistence of gar, is applied to the joints by 
rubbing ; the leaves are much used in dry fomentation ; the bark 
is also employed medicinally (Revd. A. Campbell, in Watt’s 
Dictionary). 
505. E Jambolana , Lam. h . f . b . i ., ii . 499, 
Roxb. 398. 
Syn. : — Sizygium Jambolanum, D. C. 
Sans. : — Jamboo. 
Vern .: — Jaman, j&m, jamun (H.) ; K&lajam (B.) ; Chatnbu 
(Garo) ; Jamu (Ass.); Naval, naga (Tam.); Nasodu, nairuri 
(Tel.); Jambul (Bomb.); Jambfira (Guz.) 
Habitat : — Common throughout the plains of India. 
A large evergreen tree, usually with a rather crooked stem 
and many branches. Bark lin. thick, light grey, with large 
patches of darker colour, smooth, with shallow depressions caused 
by exfoliation. Wood reddish grey, rough, moderately hard, 
darker near the centre, no distinct heartwood. Leaves, coriace- 
ous, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate; blade 3-6in., petiole &-lin. 
