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MYRTACE^. XXXIIL Eugenia. 



tornentose or hairy, and the fruit 4-seeded. Cotyledons confer- bracteoles under each flower ; leaves ovate, bluntly acuminated, 



ruminated. Habit of Myrtus. 



Pia Eugenia. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



5 E. SEssiLiFOLiA (D. C. 1. c.) pcdiccls axillary, solitary, 1- 

 flowered, opposite, slender, bractless at the apex, 3-times shorter 

 than the leaves ; fruit globose, crowned by the calycine lobes, 

 which are oblong and acutish ; leaves sessile, attenuated at both 



pale and dotted, glabrous ; calyx rather villous. }p . S. Native 



of Jamaica. My'rtus balsamica, Spreng. syst. 2 p. 481. Petals 



ciliated, one half shorter than the stamens. Bracteas usually 



at the origin of the petioles. Fruit and seeds unknown. 



Balsam Eugenia. Clt. 1816. Tree 10 to 20 feet. 



12 E. PoHLiANA (D. C. prod. 3. p. 264.) pedicels axillary, 



ends, oblong, full of pellucid dots, and are as well as the branches solitary, rather longer than the leaves, some 1-flowered, and 



■^ . S. Native of Brazil, in the province of Bahia. others 3-flowered ; middle flower sessile in the bifurcation, 2 

 Myrtus sessilifolia, Mart, herb. Lobes of calyx 3 lines long, lateral ones pedicellate ; bracteoles subulate ; calycine lobes 4, 



glabrous. 



Pedicels 7-9 inches long. Leaves 3 inches long and 1 inch 

 broad. Seeds thick, pseudo-monocotyledonous. 

 -Sessile-leaved Eugenia. Tree. 

 6 E. SPARSIFLORA (D. C. 1. c.) pcdicels 1-flowered, solitary. 



roundish, clothed with silky down on the outside, at length re- 

 flexed ; leaves ovate, glaucous, dotted beneath, opaque, gla- 

 brous ; petioles and branches clothed with rufous velvety down. 



T2. S. 



Native of Brazil, in deserts, in the provinces of the 



one half shorter than the leaves, opposite, bractless at the apex, mines. My'rtus Pohli^na, Mart. herb. Allied to^. Sellvmona 



rising from the lower part of the branchlets, in the axils of the 

 scales or leaves ; fruit globose ; leaves oval, acuminated, obtuse 

 at the base, glabrous on both surfaces as well as the branches. 

 Tj . S. Native of Brazil, near Almada, in the province of Bahia. 

 Myrtus sparsiflora, Mart. herb. Pedicels slender, 9 inches long. 

 Calycine lobes 4, oval. Leaves 3-4 inches long, and 15 lines 



and E. cana, but in consequence of the pedicels being 1 or 3- 

 flowered, it is an intermediate plant between the first and fourth 

 sections. Leaves 9-10 lines long and 5 lines broad. Peduncles 

 10-11 lines long. Flowers about the size of those of M^/Vf;/^ 

 communis. Fruit unknown. 



PoM's Eugenia. Tree 20 feet. 



13 E. Sellowiana (D. C. 1. c.) pedicels axillary, solitary, 

 1-flowered, bearing 2 subulate bracteoles ; calyxes and branchlets 

 clothed with velvety hoary down ; leaves ovate-oblong, acumin- 

 ated, full of pellucid dots, velvety above in the young, but in 

 the adult state glabrous above, pubescent and reticulately 



young leaves clothed with rufous pubescence, but at length be- nerved beneath. P2 • S. Native of Brazil, in the provinces 



of the mines, in the deserts. My'rtus Sellowiana, Mart. 

 herb. A crooked tree, about 10 feet high. Leaves 2 inches 

 long and 7-8 lines broad, spreading, not reflexed. Pedicels 

 4-10 lines long, rising from the axils of the upper leaves. 

 Allied to E.cana. 



Sellers Eugenia. Shrub 10 feet. 



14 E. caVa (D. C. h c.) pedicels axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, 

 opposite, somewhat divaricate, bearing 2, subulate, rather alter- 



broad. Petioles 4 lines long. Seeds unknown. 



Scattered-Jlowered Eugenia. Tree 20 feet. 



7 E. la'xa (D. C. 1. c.) pedicels axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, 

 very slender, shorter than the leaves ; leaves oval, attenuated 

 at the base, glabrous, acuminated at the apex ; branchlets and 

 young leaves clothed with rufous pubescence, but at length be- 

 coming glabrous ; lobes of calyx 4, 2 larger and suborbicular ; 

 young fruit obovate. \ . S. Native of Brazil, about Bahia, 

 in the deserts. Myrtus laxa, Mart. herb. Pedicels 12-20 lines 

 long, straight, rising from the axils of the upper leaves. Brac- 

 teas none, or very small. Leaves 3 inches long and 1 inch 

 broad, full of pellucid dots. Immature fruit 1 -seeded. Allied 

 to E. Patrisiiy but the fruit is obovate, not globose. 



Loose Eugenia. 



Tree 10 to 20 feet. 



8 E. inoca'rpa (D. C. prod. 3. p. 264.) pedicels axillary, nate bracteas above the middle ; calyx clothed with hoary vei- 

 l-flowered, shorter than the leaves; calycine lobes 4, ovate; vety down ; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, deflexed, opaque, 

 fruit globose, fibrous inside, 2-seeded ; leaves ovate, attenuated when young pubescent above, but at length glabrous, and clothed 

 at the base, acuminated at the apex, glabrous ; branchlets clothed with hoary velvety down beneath. ^2 • S. Native of Brazil, in 



with rufous down, furnished with stipula-formed scales. ^ . S. 

 Native of Brazil, at Rio Negro. Myrtus inoc^rpus, Mart. herb. 

 Leaves 3 inches long and 1^ inch broad. Petioles short. Fruit 

 full of tubercular dots, about the size of a plum, with fibry, acid- 

 sweet flesh. Pedicels few, 7 lines long. Seeds 2, convex on 

 one side and flat on the other. 



Nerved-f rutted Eugenia. Tree 20 feet. 



the provinces of the mines. My'rtus cana, Mart. herb. Species 



allied to E. Sellowiana^ but very distinct. Calycine lobes ovate, 



obtuse, reflexed. Pedicels 6-7 lines long. Leaves an inch long ; 

 floral ones smaller. 



Hoary Eugenia. Tree 10 to 15 feet. 



15 E.? ROSEA (D. C. 1. c.) pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, shorter 

 than the leaves, bearing 2 oblong bracteas under the flowers ; 

 9 E. involucra'ta (D. C. 1. c.) pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, branches, calyxes, and bracteas clothed with hairy tomentum; 

 solitary, with large, foliaceous, deciduous bracteas under the leaves oblong, attenuated at both ends, with revolute margins, 

 flower ; floral leaves smaller than the rest ; calycine lobes 4, smaller ones villous on both surfaces, adult ones glabrous above, 

 ovate-oblong, reflexed; leaves elliptic, petiolate, attenuated at but clothed with velvety tomentum beneath ; lobes of calyx large, 

 both ends, when young rather villous and full of pellucid dots, broadly ovate, obtuse. \i . S. Native of Brazil, among rocks, 

 but glabrous and opaque In the adult state ; branches com- Psidium roseum, Mart. herb. A bush, with numerous procum- 

 pressed. Tj . S. Native of Brazil. A small tree, with erect, bent branches. Flowers rose-coloured, 4-cleft, with a broad, 



spreading branches. Pedicels 5 lines long. Bracteoles 5 lines 

 long. Sterile leaves 2 inches long. Petioles 4-5 lines long. 

 Floral leaves smaller than the others. 



/nro/wcraf erf- flowered Eugenia. Shrub 6 to 8 feet. 



staminiferous disk, as in Psidium. Leaves 2 inches long, 



4-7 lines broad. Pedicels 7 inches long. Fruit unknown. 



i?05e-coloured-flowered Eugenia. Shrub procumbent 



and 



16 E. KuNTHiA NA (D. C. 1. c.) pcdiccls axillary, 1-flowered, 



10 E. ? bractea'ta (Raeusch. nom. ex D. C.prod. 3. p. 264.) S times shorter than the leaves, bibracteolate at the apex; ova 



pedicels axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, bibracteate under the rium ovate, small; calycine lobes 8, obtuse, constricted after 



flowers, villous ; leaves elliptic, obtuse, glabrous, when young flowering ; leaves oblanceolate, coriaceous, rather glaucous, gla- 

 clotbed with adpressed silky down ; calyxes ciliated 



Native of the East Indies. 



p. 969. Fruit and seeds unknown- 



^ . S. brous, hardly with any pellucid dots ; branchlets downy above 

 Myrtus bractekta, Willd. spec. 2. Jj . S. Native of Brazil. My^rtus Kunthiana, Mart. herb. 



Seed 1, elliptic-globose, pseudo-monocotyledonous. Pedicels 



^roctea/e-flowered Eugenia. Clt. 1820. Shrub. 

 11 E. balsa^mica (Jacq. fragm. t. 45. f. 2.) pedicels lateral, 

 solitary, 1-flowered, slender, rather villous, bearing 2 oval 



5'Q lines long. 



Far. a ; fruit red. 

 Var.p; fruit yellow. 



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