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Flowers large. Leaves lanceolate * E. Jambosa 
Flowers middle-sized. Leaves oblong. 
Leaves nearly sessile, rounded or cuneate at the base. 
Calyx-teeth as deep as broad 4. E. Bojeri. 
Calyx-teeth twice as long as deep * E. malaccensis. 
Leaves sessile, cordate at the base 5. E. venosa. 
Flowers middle-sized. Leaves large, obovate 6. E. Dupontii. 
Subgenus 3. Syzygitjm. Flowers in terminal and lateral 
trichotomous cymes. Petals cohering and falling in a 
cap together. 
Leaves oblong, acute. 
Flowers small ; developed stamens f inch long. 
Leaves petioled. 
Flowers many at the end of the branchlets .... * E. Jambolana. 
Flowers 1-3 at the end of the branchlets .... 7. E. Balfourii. 
Leaves sessile 8. E. rampans. 
Flowers middle-sized ; developed stamens §-£ inch long. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, their veinlets not raised . . . 9. E. cymosa. 
Leaves coriaceous, their veinlets raised. 
Leaves cuneate at both ends 10. E. sechellarum. 
Leaves rounded at base, cuspidate at point . . . . 11. E. Wrightii. 
Leaves obovate or round, obtuse. Flowers in all small. 
Stamens in. long. 
Leaves small (1-1^ in. long.) 12. E. glomerata. 
Leaves middle-sized (l|-3 in. long) 
Leaves as long as broad. 
Leaves nearly sessile 13. E. nummtjlaria. 
Leaves distinctly petioled 14. E. populifolia. 
Leaves half as long again as broad 15. E. scandens. 
Leaves large (4-9 inches long) 16. E. obovata. 
* E. unijlora , Linn. Sp. Plant, 673, (E. Michelii, Lam . ; DC. Prod. 
iii. 263 ; Plinia pedunculata, Linn. fil. Suppl. 253, Lot. Mag. t. 473 ; 
P. rubra, Linn. Mant. 243 ; Myrtus brasiliana, Linn. Sp. Plant. 674), 
a native of Tropical America, now widely spread in the Old World, is 
naturalised in Mauritius, Rodriguez and Seychelles. It is an erect 
glabrous shrub or small tree, with slender terete branchlets, short- 
petioled- distant thin flexible ovate acute leaves 1 J-2 in. long, 
flowers up to 6-8 in sessile axillary umbels on very slender pedicels 
f-1 inch long, very small campanulate calyx-tube, reflexed oblong 
calyx-teeth £ in. long, obovate petals exceeding the sepals and equal- 
ling the expanded stamens, and a bright red subacid aromatic fruit the 
size of a cherry. Roussailler. Brazil Cherry. 
1. E. mespiloides, Lam. Ency. iii. 205. A bush or small tree, with 
stout sulcate branchlets clothed with ferruginous pubescence. Leaves 
not close, very thick and rigid, shining above, opaque, and more or less 
clothed with fine brown tomentum below r , only the erecto-patent main 
ribs conspicuous, ovate, subobtuse or acute, broadly rounded at the 
base, 3^ in. long, lf-2 in. broad ; petioles f- in. long. Pedicels 
solitary, from the axils of the leaves, 1-2 in. long, densely puberulent, 
simple or forked. Calyx f- in. long, turbinate, tomentose, with a pair 
of persistent deltoid bracteoles at the base, the lobes broader than deep. 
