Eugenia.'] 
MYRTACEiE. 
119 
Petals T \ in. long. Expanded stamens not longer than the calyx. 
Berry globose, purple, an inch thick. Syzygium obovatum, DC. Prod. 
iii. 259. Calyptranthes pollicina, Willem. 
Mauritius, in the hill-woods of the Pouce and other ranges. Endemic. S. lati- 
folium, DO. loc. cit., is founded on leaves of this, mixed with flowers of E. cxjmota. 
Bois Bceuf. 
2. B ARRIN GrTONIA, Forst. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube obconical; lobes of 
limb 2-4, either free from the first or united in bud and splitting free 
as the flower expands. Petals 4-5, adnate to the base of the united 
stamens. Stamens epigynous, very numerous, multiserial; filaments long, 
filiform, joined at the very base ; anthers minute. Ovary inferior, 2-4- 
celled ; ovules 2 or few in a cell ; style long filiform ; stigma capitate. 
Fruit large, sublignose, oblong, terete or angled, sometimes by abortion 
1-celled and 1 -seeded ; embryo thick, fleshy, undivided. — Tall trees, with 
large alternate undotted leaves, the flowers mostly in pendulous long 
racemes or spikes. Distrib. Tropics of Old World. Species 20. 
Subgenus Butonica, Juss. Calyx-limb entire in hud, 
splitting as the flower expands into 2-3 valvate lobes. 
The only species 1. B. speciosa. 
Suhgenus Stravadium, Juss. Calyx-limb from the first 
divided into imbricated lobes. 
Expanded flower 2-2^ in. broad . . 2. B, racemosa. 
Expanded flower £ in. broad 3. B. acutangula. 
1. B. speciosa, L.fil.; DC. Prod. iii. 288. A tall tree, glabrous 
in all its parts, with thick branches marked by the large round scars 
of the fallen leaves. Leaves sessile, subcoriaceous, shining, entire, 
obovate-oblong, a foot or more long. Flowers few, in terminal cymes 
on pedicels above an inch long. Calyx- limb 2 in. long, entire in bud, 
splitting to the base into 2 or 3 valvate coriaceous lobes. Petals broad, 
obtuse, exceeding the stamens, Stamens very numerous, 3-4 in. long. 
Fruit tetragono-pyramidal, with a distinct separable epicarp and en do- 
carp. Butonica speciosa, Lam. III. t. 590 and 591, fig. 1. Mammea 
asiatica, Linn. Agasta asiatica, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, vol. 
i, part 261. 
Seychelles, on the seashore, Bojer , Some / Common on the Mahe side of Praslin, 
Dr. Wright. Polynesia to Comoro isles ; not continental Africa, 
2. B. racemosa, Eoxb.; DC. Prod. iii. 288. A tall tree, glabrous in 
all its parts. Leaves crowded at the end of the branches, oblanceolate- 
oblong, thin, subcoriaceous, penninerved, obscurely dentate, subobtuse 
or subacute, narrowed through the lower half, reaching a foot or more 
long. Flowers in lax pendulous peduncled racemes reaching 2 feet in 
length ; pedicels very short. Sepals 3-4, finally £ in. long. Expanded 
flower 2-2| in. broad, the stamens rather exceeding the petals. Fruit 
ovoid, obsoletely quadrangular. Gaud, in Prey. Voy. 483, t. 107. 
Seychelles, on the sea-shore, common, Home ! Tropical Asia and Africa. 
