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200 to 250), white, about as long as petals, with yellow anthers; style, 1.5 to 2 cm long,
filiform, greenish-yellow, exserted above stamens; fruit, 3 to 12 cm long, globose, ovoid
or pyriform, surmounted with remnants of calyx lobes, shining pale green, whitish
yellow or faintly pink when ripe, pulpy; pulp, granular-juicy, sweet-sour, light pink to
reddish-pink or cream-colored, aromatic; seeds, many, 3 to 5 mm long, bony, reniform,
yellowish to light brown, embedded in pulp. Occasionally planted or protected in home
gardens; spontaneous on coastal strip and locally abundant in unmined forest on plateau
and in mined areas. Wood an excellent firewood and makes good fishing poles; leaves
used to treat diarrhea; ripe fruit eaten and made into jams. 3(58650, 58767), 4(105N),
5(94), 6, 7, 8.
Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merr. & Perry "Malay apple", "mountain apple"
apolo Solomona ("Solomon Is. appleU)(T)
syns. Eugenia malaccensis L.; Carophyllus malaccensis (L.) Stokes; Jambosa
malaccensis (L.) DC.
Recent introduction. S. E. Asia. Rare. Medium tree, 6 to 15 m tall; leaves, 10 to
38 cm long and 5 to 22 cm wide; opposite, elliptic to oblong-obovate, bluntly acuminate,
base obtuse to acute, then abruptly decurrent on petiole, glossy, glabrous, paler beneath,
obscurely punctate, thick-coriaceous, pinnately nerved, lateral nerves submarginally loop-
connected 4 to 7 mm from margin; petiole, 8 to 15 mm long, stout, in young leaves
reddish; inflorescences, dense few-flowered cymes, about 5 cm long, on defoliate older
branches and on trunk; pedicels, 1 cm long or less; calyx tube, 1.5 to 2 cm long,
turbinate, 4-lobed, lobes rounded, wider than long; corolla, 4 to 7 cm in diameter across
expanded stamens, petals 4, 8 to 18 mm long, obovate, concave, red, fugaceous;
stamens, many (about 125), 1 to 3.5 cin long, erect, red to vivid crimson-pink; anthers,
small yellowish; style, nearly 2 cm long, dark red; fruit, about 6 to 8 cm long, obovoid
or pyriform, crowned by inflexed calyx-lobes, glossy and slightly waxy in appearance,
crisp-succulent, light green maturing to red or greenish-white or striped or mottled,
usually 1-seeded; flesh, white, watery; seeds, about 2 cm across. Planted fruit tree
seedling in Tuvaluan garden at Location. Common aboriginal introduction throughout
most of high-island Melanesia and Polynesia, where the fruit is eaten. 5, 6.
NYMPHAEACEAE (Waterlily Family)
Nymphaea sp. "water lily"
Recent introduction. E. and S. Africa and Madagascar. Rare. Aquatic perennial
herb with submerged rhizomes; leaves, peltate, floating, long-petiolate, arising from the-
rhizome; flowers, cup-like, solitary, regular, bisexual; calyx, 4-sepaled, the sepals,
nearly free, intergrading into the petals; corolla, many-petaled, petals, overlapping,
showy, variously colored from rich blue, pink, yellow to creamy-white; stamens,