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HYRTACEiE. 
[Eugenia. 
lateral cymes with erecto-patent branches. Calyx-tube i in. broad, 
narrowed at the base, the teeth very shallow. Petals round, caducous. 
Stamens | in. long. Fruit globose, fleshy, nearly an inch thick, crowned 
with a rim formed by the produced calyx-tube. Jambosa venosa, DC. 
Prod. iii. 286. 
Mauritius, in shaded woods of Grandport, Savanne, and Mahe. Also Mada- 
gascar. 
6. E. Dupontii, Baker. A bush, with very thick angular straight 
branches and crow r ded leaves. Leaves obovate or obovate-oblong, 4-6 
in. long, 3 in. broad above the middle, obtuse, broadly rounded at the 
base, very thick, rigid and shining, with the veinlets conspicuous. 
Flowers in terminal cymes Jft. broad with thick erecto-patent branches ; 
pedicels very short. Calyx glabrous, turbinate, J in. long; lobes 
twice as broad as deep. Petals round, f in. broad. Stamens very 
numerous, £■ iu. long. 
Mauritius, in the woods of the Riviere de la Cascade. Dupont ! Bouton ! 
* E. Jambolana, Lam. Ency. iii. 198 ; Wt. Ic. t. 535 and 624, (Syzy- 
gium Jambolanum, DC. Prod. iii. 259), common in tropical Asia, is 
established in Mauritius on the Pouce and elsewhere, and in Rodriguez 
in Oyster Bay. It is a tall tree, with flexuose branchlets, distinctly 
petioled oblong acute rigidly coriaceous leaves 4-6 in. long, small 
flowers in copious deltoid lateral panicles 3-6 in. long with spreading 
branches, sessile flowers 4-10 together at the end of the branchlets, 
turbinate glabrous calyx £ in. long with very obscure teeth, corolla 
^ in. long soon falling, stamens | in. long, and a subglobose one- 
seeded drupe as large as a grape. Jamlongue. 
7. E. Balfourii, Baker. A much branched shrub, with glabrous 
terete branchlets. Leaves oblong, acute, 2|-3 in. long, cuneate at the 
base, rigidly subcoriaceous, with close fine ribs. Flowers in copious 
peduncled lateral panicles as long as the leaves, 1^-2 in. broad, only 
2 or 3 at the end of the branchlets, which spread from the rachis at a 
right angle, sessile or the end one obscurely pedicelled. Calyx £ in. 
long; teeth obscure, deltoid. Stamens \ iu. long. 
Rodriguez, Balfour ! Near E. Jambolana , from which it differs by ita smaller 
leaves, with much closer veining and fewer larger flowers. Endemic. 
8. E. rampans, Baker. A creeping shrub, with stems 20-25 ft. 
long and square branchlets. Leaves not close, sessile or subsessile, 
cordate-oblong, acute or cuspidate, 2-3 in. long, 1-1J in. broad, rigidly 
coriaceous, with the veinlets in relief. Panicles lateral and terminal, 
peduncled, sometimes forming an end panicle 6-8 in. long and 
broad, the main branches spreading, acutely 4-angled. Calyx hemi- 
spherical, J- in. broad, short-pedicelled, nearly truncate. Corolla 
