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MYRTACEJE. 
[Eugenia. 
ceous, glabrous, with immersed veinlets. Cymes small, crowded, 
usually terminal, short-peduncled, with main branches erecto-patent, 
rarely spreading ; pedicels very short. Calyx glabrous, broadly tur- 
binate, truncate, in. deep. Unexpanded flower globose. Stamens 
not longer than the calyx. Berry as large as a pea. Syzygium 
glomeratum, DC. Prod. iii. 209. 
Mauritius, frequent in the mountain-woods. Also Madagascar. Bois de Pomme. 
13. E. nummularia, BaJcer. An erect shrub, with straight terete 
moderately stout ashen-grey branches. Leaves quite or nearly ses- 
sile, not close, round, 2-3 in. long and broad, truncate or emarginate 
at the apex, rigidly coriaceous, the veinlets raised. Panicles small, 
crowded, lateral and terminal, short-peduncled, the branches quadran- 
gular, all erecto-patent. Calyx not more than in. long, sessile or 
short-pedicelled, the teeth minute, deltoid. Unexpanded corolla hemi- 
spherical. Expanded stamens not more than in* long. 
Mauritius, in the forests at Moka and Savanne, Bouton ! Dupont ! Endemic. 
14. E. populifolia, Baker. An erect tree ; branches straight, terete, 
moderately stout, ashen-grey. Leaves nearly round, obtuse or ob- 
scurely cuspidate, 3-4 in. long, 3 in. broad, broadly rounded at the base, 
rigidly coriaceous, not so thick as in E. nummularia and obovata, the 
veinlets fine and scarcely raised ; petiole in. long. Panicles 
crowded, short-peduncled, terminal, all the branches erecto-patent. 
Calyx-tube £ in. long, with a short pedicel above the joint, the rounded 
lobes twice as broad as long. Unexpanded corolla hemispherical. 
Expanded stamens i in. long. 
Mauritius, in the forests of Mahe and Savanne, Bouton ! Endemic. 
15. E. scandens, Baker. A woody climber, with trailing mode- 
rately stout terete grey branches. Leaves not crowded, short-petioled, 
obovate-oblong or oblong, obtuse or cuspidate, broadly cuneate at the 
base, 3-4 in long, 2 in. broad, very thick and rigid, with raised venules. 
Elowers in copious peduncled lateral and terminal panicles 1-2 in. 
broad, with cymes crowded at the end of the branchlets, as in E. Jam - 
bolana. Calyx broadly turbinate, subsessile, in. long, the teeth 
minute, deltoid. Stamens not longer than the calyx. Petals very 
small. Berry depresso-globose, purple, \ in. thick. Syzygium scan- 
dens, Bojer , Sort . Maur. 143 (name only). 
Mauritius, in woods of Grand Bassin and Bassin blanc. Endemic. 
16. E. obovata, Poir. Ency. Suppl. iii. 124. An erect bush, with 
thick straight branchlets. Leaves close, subsessile, obovate, obtuse, 
6-9 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, rounded at base, very thick and rigid, 
opaque, the veinlets distinct. Elowers in crowded cymose terminal 
panicles with erecto-patent main branches, subtended by reduced 
leaves. Calyx sessile, turbinate, glabrous, i in. long j lobes very short. 
