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MY RTACE^E. 
Eugenia ? WyNADENSIS. (Bedd.) A small tree or Urge .Arab, young I,,** ramuli end inflorescence densely 
fulvo-tomentose, leaves oblong lanceolate with a long blunt acumination, when old quite glabrous on both sides, minutely dotted near 
the margin only. 3-3| inches long by 1-1J broad, petioles 3-4 lines long, peduncles supra-axillary 6 lines long, calycine-lobes 4 lanceo¬ 
late acuminate a little longer than the corol, bracts 2 linear much longer than the sepals, stamens inserted round the edge of the disk, 
petals with pellueid dots, ovary 2 ceded, ovules about 4 in eaoh cell pendulous from the apex. Bedd. Mad. Lit. Soc. Journ; and 
Flora Sylvalica, part xvii. 
Common about Devalicottah in the Wynad, elevation 2000-3000 feet, in flo wer in April. It seems intermediate between 
Pimenta and Eugenia, having the pendulous ovules of the former and the habit and iuflorescence of the latter. I have not seen the fruit. 
PLATE No. CLXI. 
Eugenia CaLCADENSIS. (Bedd.) A small tree, young shoots, young leaves and inflorescence covered with dense rusty 
pubescence, leaves opposite, sometimes subalternate coriaceous, not dotted, elliptic to subobovate obtuse at the apex, very rugose 
on the upper side but glabrous in age except the channelled costa (venation inconspicuous above, slightly prominent beneath, the pri¬ 
mary veins joined into a marginal one) 2J-3 inches long by 1-1$ broad, petioles 3-4 lines long, peduucles axillary solitary about as 
long or a little longer than the petiole, 2 flowered at the apex rarely only 1-flowered, pedicels 1-1* inch long furnished with a subulate 
bract at the base of each and 2 small narrow linear bracteoles at the apex below the calyx, flowers showy, white, 1-1J inches in dia¬ 
meter, calyx lobes rounded about 3 lines long, petals oblong ciliate 6-8 lines long, stigma truncate not larger than the apex of the style, 
disk suborbicular densely woolly covering the whole of the top of the ovary at the apex of the calyx tube, stamens inserted all over it, 
ovary 2 celled, ovules numerous attached to the central placenta. Bedd. Flora Sylvatica, part xvii. 
Calcad hills (South Tinnevelly) 2000 feet elevation, a very beautiful little tree. 
Analysis. 
2. Upper side of a full grown leaf glabrous but very rugose, 
S. A flower bud showing the bracteoles. 
4. Full flower petals removed, showing the large woolly disk and the insertion of the stamens 
5. A petal. 
7. Ovary cut vertically. 
8. Ovary cut transversely. 
PLATE No. CLXII. 
MELASTOMACELE. 
MEMECYLON AMABILE. (Bedd.) A small tree or large shrub, the young branches acutely 4 angled, young leaves a 
deep blue color, leaves subcoriaceous not dotted (veins quite incouspiqpous pinnate and meeting a looped vein within the margin) 
opaque deep green above very pale beneath subsessile from ovate to cordato-lanceolate with a gradually attenuated blunt point, 2-3 inches 
long by 10-14 lines broad, petioles 1 line long or sometimes none, peduncles axillary and terminal solitary or twin slender 6-9 lines long 
generally simply umbelliferous at the apex, sometimes branched and with several umbels, dilated at the apex into a scaly receptacle, 
pedicels slender 2-3 times as long as the calyx with a small bract at the base of each, calyx-lobea very small or obsolete, petals rounded] 
disk plane within, flowers deep blue small crowded, placenta about 5-ovuled. Bedd. Flora Sylvatica, part xviii. 
South Canara ghats up to 2000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CLXIII. 
MEMECYLON GRACILE. (Bedd.) A small tree or large shrub, ydung branches obsoletely 4 angled, leaves subcoriace¬ 
ous ovate with a long gradually blunt acumination (veins pinnate with a looped vein near the margin but all quite inconspicuous) of 
a bright green on both sides or a little paler beneath, l|-lf inch long by 8-9 lines broad, petioles 1-2£ lines long, peduncles axillary 
solitary recurved or drooping slender 4-6 lines long bracteated at the apex and 3 flowered, pedicels 2-3 inches long with 2 
bracteoles a little above the base, flowers small, calyx white, disk radiately winged within, petals pale blue, placentas 3-4 ovuled. Bedd. 
Flora Sylvatica , part xviii. 
Travancore and Tinnevelly ghats. Not uncommon. 
PLATE No. CLXIY. 
