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B. Fruit fleshy. 



Tribe II. nXyrteae. Ovary 2- or more-celled (except Rhodamnia) . 

 Fruit a berry or drupe. 



Limb of calyx closed in bud Mnth the lobes subimbricate, ra- 

 ther deeply valvately divided when in flo-wer . . . . . *4. PsiDniM. 

 Limb of calyx 4-5-lobed or -partite in bud, not becoming 

 • further divided when in flower. 



Ovary 1 -celled with 2 parietal placentas. Leaves 3- 



nerved • 5. Ehodamnia. 



Ovary 1-3-celled with double rows of ovules in each 

 cell separated by spurious partitions. Leaves some- 

 times 3 -nerved 6. EHODOMTExrs. 



Ovary 5- rarely 4-celIed with 2-6 ovules in each cell. 

 Embryo long and narrow, curved, circular, or spiral, 



with small cotyledons 7. DECASPEBsnrM. 



Ovary 2-3-celled with several ovules in each cell and 



without spurious partitions. Embryo thick and 

 fleshy, not divisible, or with 2 thick fleshy cotyle- 

 dons and a short radicle 8. Eugenia. 



Teibe III. Xiecytliidece (Sub-tribe BaiTingtonieae). Ovary 2- or more- 

 celled. Fruit indehiscent, hard and fibrous or fleshy. Leaves alternate, not 

 gland-dotted. 



Stamens all perfect. Fruit angular, fibrous, 1 -seeded . . 9. Bareikgtonu. 

 Outer^ or inner stamens or both without anthers. Fruit 

 ovoid or globular, fleshy, many-seeded 10. Careya. 



1. BJECK&A, Linn. 



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Glabrous heath-like shrubs. Leaves opposite, narrow, pointed, with many 

 pellucid glands. Flowers normally 5-merous, axillary, pedimcled, with 2 minute 

 ^ts at their base. Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes 5, membranous, persistent. 

 f^oh 5, suborbicTilar. Stainem 10 or fewer, shorter than the petals. Ovary 

 ^^or or ^-inferior, 2-3-celled, with several ovules in each cell. CapsiUe 

 "'^ting from above loculicidally. Seeds angular ; embryo straight with short 

 potyledons.— DisTRiB. Species about 50, the greater number Australian, a few 

 ^ New Caledonia, one only extending into Lidia. 



- 1' B. frutescens, Linn, ; leaves linear pointed ascending or spreading, 

 lowers axillary shortly peduncled, calyx-lobes roundish petaloid, stamens 10 

 ^ly 8, ovary 3-celled. DC. Prodr, iii. 229; S7n. in Trans. Linn, Soc. iii. 

 f7? -Sof. Mag. t, 2802; Blu7ne Mus. Bot, i. 69; Miq, FL Ind, Bat, i. pt 

 Ti L ' ■^^^^- Fl Hmgh, 118. B. Oumingiana, Schauer in Walp, Rep, ii. 920. 

 ^- chmeusis, Gaertn, Fruct. i. 157, t. Sl.—Osbeck liin. 231, t. 1. 



Eastern Peninsula; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay, Cuming, Lobb, Zow.— Distrib. 



•'^atra, Borneo, Philippines, S. China. 



, ^ slender shrub with rod-like branches. Leaves small, {-J in. long, flat or some- 



^\ channelled above, convex beneath. Peduncles usually solitary and short with 



ijnniite bracts at the base. Flowers small, white, 5-merous, occasionally 4-merou8. 



^fl/*-fufe campanulate. 



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