Coorg near Mercara—rare: Munro—Fowers sweet
scented. This species very much resembles (*)E. buxi-
fo lia Lam. in the foliage, but appears distinct. DeCan-
dolle refers Lamarck’s plant to his genus Jossinia and if
correctly, which my specimens do not enable me to determine,
this species certainly forms the transition from
the one to the other.
My specimens and a detailed description, from which
the above character is abridged, were communicated by
Lieutenant Munro.
2. Sub-genus J ambosa, D.C. Calyx turbinate attenuated,
rarely cylindrical or sub-globose towards the base;
throat dilated, produced beyond the ovary 4-cleft, lobes
usually persistent: petals free, expanding before falling.
Cymes lateral or terminal, flowers usually rather large
and conspicuous, sometimes nearly sessile oftener longish
pedicelled, fru it often edible.
§. 1. Cymes terminal.
8. * E. (Jambosa) Jambos (Lin. Jamboa vulgaris,
D.C.—W. and A.)
9. E. (J ) aquea (Boxb. J. aquea, D.C.—W. and A.)
This seems to be a widely distributed, and, as regards
the form of the foliage, a variable species. In some
they are nearly oval, in others oblong, and in others
nearly lanceolate, they all however agree in being short
petioled and, with one exception, in'having short peduncles
congregated near the summit of branches.
10. E. (J ) Munronii (R. W.—J.aquea, Munro’s MSS.)
racemes cymose terminal, tube of the calyx much attenuated
at the base, lobes of the limb somewhat membranous
obtuse : leaves subsessile, slightly cordate at the base,
lanceolate upwards, ending in a short blunt acumen,
penninerved; veins meeting and forming a thick coarse
nerve within the margin ; pellucid dotted.—A slender ~
tree from 12 to 20 feet high, flowers large and conspicuous,
apparently from the dried specimen, redish. Fruit
edible.
Coorg—Lieutenant Munro. This seems a very handsome
species.
.§. 2. Cymes lateral.
a. Short or subsessile calyx turbinate.
11. * E. ( J ) Malaccensis (Lin. Jambosa malaccensis
D.C.—W. and A.)
12. * E. («ƒ) purpurea (Roxb.) apparently only a variety
o f the former.
13. * E. («/) ternifolia (Roxb.) A noble species but
only differing from the two preceding ones in having
the leaves in verticels of three together, in place o f simply
opposite.
14. E. (J ) formosa (Wall. PI. As. Rar. 2 tab. 108.)
b. Cymes lateral, longish peduncled, tube of the
calyx short, hemispherical.
15. E. (J ) hemispherica (R. W.) leaves petioled, lanceolate,
acuminated at both ends, cymes axillary solitary
or paired, shorter than the leaves : calyx tube short, semi-
globose, petals orbicular, reflexed : fruit—Ceylon.
A very distinct species, easily known by the unusual
form of the tube of the calyx which, in place of being
conical like all the others, is dilated and globular. The
leaves are about 4 inches long and about 1 broad at the
broadest point,whence they gradually taper to both ends,
imperceptibly terminating in the petiol below and a fine
point above, sometimes subalternate. The peduncles
are slender, either solitary and then accompanied by a
branch, or paired, bearing from 6 to 9 largish white
flowers. The fruit I have not seen. This species forms
the transition to Syzygece in like manner as E . pauciflora
and cylindrica does-to Caryophyllas.
c, Cymes longish peduncled, calyx conical, sometimes
cylindrical, long and slender.
17- E. («ƒ ?) amplexicaulis (Roxb.)
18. * E. (J ) alba (Roxb.)
19. E. (J ) bifaria (Wall. PI. As Rar. 2. tab. 161.) The
specimens communicated by Dr. Wallich under this
name appear to me to belong to a totaljy different plant.
The figure represents a plant so very nearly allied to
E . alba Roxb. that it seems rather a variety of that than
a distinct species, see below E . (S ) Wallichii.
20. * E. (J ) polypetala (Wall. List No. 3616) E .
angustifolia R. not Lamarck. ~~
The numerous petals of thislipecies—12 to 16—seem
to render it doubtful whether this should be retained
in the genus. It is readily distinguished by that character
and the verticilled ternate, not opposite, linear
lanceolate leaves.
21. * E. (7 ) laurifolia. (Roxb.) The long slender
pedicels of this plant combined with its even, not
nerved, delicate foliage, render it a very distinct and
beautiful species.
22. E. (J ) pauciflora (R. W.) leaves short petioled,
lanceolate, attenuated towards the base, ending in a
long slender acumen : pedicels solitary from the extreme
axils, one-flowered : calyx tube cylindrical long and slender,
limb 4-cleft, fruit oval.
Ceylon—Courtallum. This species seems very nearly
allied to the following, but the solitary one-flowered pedicels
common to the plant both as found in Ceylon
and on the continent at once distinguish it.
23. E. (J ) cylindrica (R. W.) leaves short petioled,
ovate, acuminated at both ends: cymes terminal or from
the axils of the last two or three pairs o f leaves ; calyx
tube cylindrical long and slender, fruit------P
Ceylon. The tube of the calyx in both these species
is nearly an inch long, slightly ventricose" near the middle,
where the ovary is situated, and thence tapering
downwards to a point.
These three species form the transition to caryophyl-
lus and, had the calycine arrangement here followed,
been rigidly adhered to, the cylindrical elongation o f the
calyx would have placed the two last in that sub-genus:
but their affinities being truly with Jambosa 1 prefer
bringing them in here.
3. Sub-genus Caryophyli/us (Lin). Calyx tube elongated,
sub-cylindrical, limb deeply A-cleft, lobes persistent:
petals cohering, calyptriform, cymes terminal or at least
confined to the axils near the summits o f the branches.
16. Caryophyllus aromatievs (Linn.) Some, at least,
of the other species referred to this genus by DeCandolle,
seem scarcely to belong to it but are allied to my E .
cylindrica or referable to the following sub-genus.
4. S ubgenus Acmena D.C; Calyx tube elongated\
conical, limb produced beyond the ovary, truncated or repandly
4-5 lobed: petals 4-5, sometimes calyptrated, sometimes
fre e and expanding (even in the same species), fru it
subdrupaeious.— Flowers numerous subsessile lateral, sometimes
forming lateral spicute racemes, sometimes terminal
racemose panicles.
The flowers of this subgenus being frequently quinary
-—having a 5-lobed calyx and 5-petaled corollo—indicate
it as the transition towards Myrtus, Myrcia and Pimenta,
in which both quinary and quaternary flowers occur and
one species has numerous petals like E. («7.) polypetala :
the seed however mark it as a true Eugenia.
24. E. (A) claviflora (Roxb. FI. Ind. 2—p. 488.)
25. E. {A ) leptaniha (R. W.) Leaves oval, acute or
acuminated at both ends, finely parellely veined : racemes
spicate, lateral, from naked branches : calyx tube
long, clavate, finely attenuated towards the base; limb
dilated and much produced beyond the ovary, margin
slightly repand : petals usually 5, caducous, calyptriform ?
Fruit ? Mergui.—Griffith.
So far as I can make out from Roxburgh’s imperfect
character, this seems very nearly allied to his E. claviflora.
26. E. (/I) Wightiana (R. W.—-Syz, Wightianum
Wall.—W. and A.) calyx.repandly 4-lobed, petals 12 or
fewer by abortion ; the outer ones occasionally expand-
SB . . . .
This species owing to its numerous petals seems to hold
the same rank in this subgenus that E . (J ) polypetala
does in Jambosa.
27- E. (A ) lanciolata ( Lam.)
These two are apparently nearly the same, Lamarck’s
description o f the flowers of his E . lanceolata (Elies sont
glabres, turbinees ou en massue et ont le calice a quatre
lobes: leur style est simple;) is so far as it goes quite
applicable to those of Wallich’s S. Wightianum, and the
foliage, making allowance for occasional variation, is also
sufficiently in accordance. But 1 have another species
from Ceylon which is so like that I for a long time
thought it the same, but which, on closer examination I
find differs both in the venation o f the leaves, and in the
flowers. The flowers accurately correspond with Lamarck’s
description; the stamens, as in his specimen,
have all separated leaving the simple style.
28. E. (yl) Zeylanica (R. W.) Myrtus Zeylanica
Linn.—Syzygium Zeylanicum et spicatem (D.C.) Acmena
parviflora ? (D.C.)
This in foliage is a variable species but the inflorescence
is sufficiently uniform to mark it under every variation.
I have now specimens from Malabar, Ceylon
and Mergui, which sufficiently agree in that particular,
though the foliage is somewhat different. This plant
agrees so well with the character of Acmena parviflora
(D.C.) that I have no hesitation in quoting that as a synonym,
a view in which I am further confirmed by the
character of the fruit of A. floribunda, ft, elliptica—viz.
“ bacca globosa alba” which accurately describes that of
E. (A ) Zeylanica.
29. * E. (A) grata (Wall.) calyx conical, limb repandly
5 -toothed: petals 5-corymbs: terminal and from the
upper axils: leaves ovate lanceolate, ending in a longish
blunt acumen: fruit globose 1-2-seeded,crowned with the
projecting throat of the calyx—Mergui. Griffith—
Assam. Jenkins and Griffith.
This species seems very distinct from all the others
o f this sub-genus, but seems certainly referable to it
both on account o f the elongation o f the tube of the
calyx and the quinary tendency which its flowers exhibit,
the globose fruit affords another mark of relationship
with the preceding.
30.* E. (A ) oblata (Roxb. Syzygium oblatum Wall.)
This species is nearly allied to the last, so much so indeed,
that I doubt whether they can be kept separate.
31 E. (A) bractiolata (R. W.) ramuli 4-sided, angles
subacute : leaves short petioled, elleptico-lanceolate,
acute or slightly acuminated at both ends, pellucid dotted
: cymes terminal and from the upper axils, the ex
treme divisions terminating in a cluster o f from 6 to 9
sessile flowers ; each division and each flower furnished
with two minute, persistent, acute bracteols : calyx tube
conical 4 sided ; limb repandly 4 lobed.
I am uncertain whence I received my specimen but I
think from Mergui.
This species evidently forms the transition from Acmena
to Syzygium, the glomerate flowers and conical calyx
tube marking its relationship with E. (.4) Zeylanica
while its diminutive length and 4 not 5 toothed margin
show its affinity . with Syzygium.
5. Subgenus Syzygium (Gasrt.) Calyx tube short, that
part enclosing the ovary contracted (pedicel-like) inconspicuous,
limb (beyond the ovary') dilated, cup-shaped, persistent,
truncated, entire or repandly 4-toothed, petals either
fre e and expanding or cohering calyptriform. Trees
often o f great size ; flowers numerous, small, white, limb
o f the calyx usually deciduous, cymes corymbose lateral
or terminal.
§. 1. Petals cohering and separating in that state.
a. Cymes terminal, that is, from the upper axils of
the young shoots of the same season.
32. E. («$) rubicunda (R. ,W.—S. rubicundum W. and
A.) .
33. E. (<S) Neesiana (R. W.—Syzygium Neesianum
Arnott’s pugillus) leaves subsessile, oblong lanceolate,
blunt pointed, subcoriaceous, pellucid dotted, penninerved
: cymes terminal, laxly corymbose, trichotomous, peduncles
4-sided,thepartial ones umbellately 3-7-flowered,
pedicels half the length of the shortly turbinate slightly
4-lobed calyx—Arnott. Ceylon.
This species seems to have a nearly equal right
to a place in both sections o f this sub-genus as the
petals are often free. Dr. Arnott remarks that it differs
from all the other species of the genus in its sessile
leaves, this is certainly an excellent character but not
without exception, as I have, what appears to me, a petioled
variety of this plant and another species with
34. * E. (S ) Myrtfolia (Roxb. FI. Ind. 2, P. 490.)
35. * E. (5 ) Oleina (R.W.—Syzygium oleinum Wall.)
These two, if distinct, are so like each other that I cannot
see by what characters they can be defined, 1 look
upon them, judging from specimens only, as identical.
36. E. (<S) sylvestris (Moon) leaves obovate obtuse
or spathulate, coriaceous, shining, short petioled: cymes
corymbose, congested towards the summits o f the branches
and extreme axils, longish peduncled : fruit about the
, size of a crab-apple, redish.
Ceylon.—Most o f the above character is copied from
Moon’s notes on this species.
37. E. (S ) Caryophyllcea (R. W. Syz. Caryophyllasum