Eugenia. ] 
MYRTACEiE. 
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sinia buxifolia, DC. Prod. iii. 237. Myrtus borbonica, Spreng. Syst. 
ii. 481. 
Mauritius, on the mountains. Jossinia terminalis , Bojer, Hort. Maur. 141 , which 
grows in the damp woods of Trois Hots, is a variety with lanceolate leaves, £-§ in. 
broad, and rather longer pedicels. Endemic. 
* E. Jamb ox a, Linn. Sp. 672 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1696, (Jambosa vulgaris, 
DC. Prod. iii. 286), common in Tropical Asia, is established in Mau- 
ritius, Rodriguez and the Seychelles. It is a tree 20-30 feet high, with 
terete virgate branches, short-petioled firm shining prominently-veined 
lanceolate acuminate leaves 6-9 in. long, large flowers 3-4 together in 
lateral or terminal cymes, broadly turbinate short calyx -tube, rounded 
sepals twice as broad as deep, round white petals f inch broad, very 
numerous stamens an inch long, pear-shaped rose-coloured fruit as 
large as a crab with 1-3 seeds, not so palatable as that of E. malaccensis. 
Jam-rosa. 
4. E. Bojeri, Baker. A creeping shrub with ultimate branchlets 
like ash twigs, angular, £ in. thick, with wrinkled drab bark. Leaves 
short-petioled, oblong, 1-1£ foot long, 4-5 in. broad at the middle, 
acute, cuneate or rounded at the base, coriaceous, with copious raised 
erecto-patent venules meeting in a prominent intramarginal vein. 
Cymes few-flowered, sessile, lateral, sometimes copiously branched, and 
bearing only rudimentary flowers ; pedicels with a pair of bracteoles 
near the top. Calyx middle-sized, the turbinate tube pilose, the lobes 
as deep as broad. Petals £ inch deep, quite free, shorter than the 
stamens. Berry purple, size of a small pear. Jambosa macrophylla, 
Bojer , Hort. Maur. 143, non DC. 
Mauritius, in dense woods at Grandport and in the centre of the island, 
*E. malaccensis , Linn. Sp. 672; Sm. Exot. Bot. t. 61, (E. macrophylla, 
Lam. Ency. iii. 196 ; Jambosa malaccensis, macrophylla, purpurea and 
domestica, DC.), common in Tropical Asia, is often planted, and some- 
times naturalised in Mauritius and the Seychelles. It is a low tree, 
with slender terete branchlets, oblong nearly sessile moderately firm 
acute leaves 6-9 in. long rounded at the base, middle-sized flowers 
6-15 together in lateral or terminal cymes, with divaricate branches, 
broadly turbinate calyx-tube f in. thick narrowed at the base, imbri- 
cated rounded sepals twice as broad as deep, round white or pink petals 
£ inch broad, stamens £ inch long, rose-scented, and turbinate red 
or white fleshy fruit l£ inch thick. Jamalac. 
5. E. venosa, Lam. Ency. iii. 200. A low tree, with slender terete 
branchlets. Leaves spaced, oblong, sessile, cordate at the base, acute 
or subacute, 3-4 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, with divaricating raised 
venules. Flowers 3-6, middle sized, in short-peduncled terminal and 
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