746 lviii. myrtacEjE. [Eugenia. 
Panicles very numerous, 3 in. long, peduncled with few spreading 
branches. Flowers small, sessile with ovate bracts at base, crowded 
at tip -i in. long. Calyx cylindric, truncate. Hab. Perak (without 
locality) (Scortechini). 
Allied to E. microcalyx, but leaves and flowers very much smaller {prob¬ 
ably a high mountain plant). 
(85) E. pseudo-subtilis King, l.c. 123, in part. 
Small bushy conical tree about 20 ft. tall. Bark red flaky; 
branchlets pale. Leaves coriaceous, obovate or lanceolate, blunt 
narrowed at base; nerves faint, 5 to 7 pairs, visible beneath, in¬ 
arching within the margin, intramarginal invisible, 2-5 to 3-5 in. 
long, i*5 in. wide; petioles -5 in. long. Panicles spreading, lax, 
2-5 to 4 in. long. Flowers small, sessile. Calyx -05 in. long, urn¬ 
shaped to globular, rim of mouth projecting, teeth 4. Fruit small, 
globose, as big as a peppercorn, red. Hab. Hilly forests. Singa¬ 
pore, Tanglin, perhaps planted here. Malacca, Bukit Sadanen 
(Derry). 
var. subacuminata. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate. Penang and 
Perak (Kunstler). 
(86) E. Kunstleri King, l.c. 127. 
Tree 50 to 80 ft. tall, over 3 ft. through. Leaves thinly sub- 
coriaceous elliptic acuminate, narrowed to base ; nerves about 
10 pairs elevate beneath and conspicuously inarching *2 in. from 
the edge; 5 in. long, 1-5 in. wide; petioles -3 in. long. Panicles 
terminal from upper axils, 1-5 to 3 in. long, peduncled, branching 
at the top about 1-5 in. across. Flowers small, greenish yellow 
about -i in. wide. Calyx obconic, no pseudo-stalk -i in. long, 
teeth obscure 4. Petals orbicular, calyptrate. Stamens very 
short. Fruit obovoid, *5 to -6 in. long, green with a reddish tinge. 
Hab. Forests. Perak, Larut Hills up to 800 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 
Penang (Curtis). 
(87) E. venulosa Wall. Cat. ; Duthie, l.c. ii. 490; King, l.c. 123. 
Tree about 20 to 30 ft. tall. Leaves coriaceous, obovate or 
oblanceolate blunt or round, base cuneate; nerves 10 to 14 pairs, 
with the secondaries and reticulations fine but conspicuous on the 
paler underside, less so above, 2 to 3 in. long, -8 to 2*2 in. wide; 
petioles *15 in. long. Panicles terminal wide lax, many-flowered 
6 in. long and as wide or less; peduncle and branches 4-angled, 
ebracteate. Calyx -2 in. long, campanulate, narrowed to a pseudo¬ 
stalk as long as the cup, truncate. Petals calyptrate. Fruit 
globose. Hab. Common in the south in open woody country. 
Singapore, Tampinis road. Johor, Kota Tinggi; Gunong Pantai 
road. Malacca, Bukit Bruang (Derry); Bukit Bharu (Maingay). 
Perak, Haram River (Scortechini). Dislrib. Karimon isles. Native 
name: Kelat Putih. 
King's var. macrolhyrsa is not worth keeping up. It is only based on 
good specimens. 
