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LTX. MIRTACE^. (J. F. Duthie.) [Becas])ermum 



globular, crowned with the calyx-lobes. Seeds few, reniform; testa bard; 

 embryo bippocrepifonn or circular, witb a long: radicle and short linear cotyl^ 

 dons.— DiSTRiB. Species about 4, inhabiting Tropical Asia and Australia, and 

 the Pacific Islands. 



Closely related to Myrtus. 



1. 9. paniculatum, Kurz in Jouym. As. Soc, Beng. xlvi. (1877) pt. n^ 

 p. 61 ; For. FL Brit Burm. i. 475 ; leaves shortly petioled oblong acumi- 

 nate suddenly narrowing below, flowers in terminal and axillary panicles 

 often polygamous, calyx-lobes roundish or subacute, ovary 4-celled. Iselitr]* 

 panicuJata, Lindi. Collect, under No. 16 ; DC. Pi^odr. iii. 231 ; Wall Cat 

 3627; Wight III. ii. 12, t. 97% f. 10, Ic. 521; Bmth, Fh Austral, in. 2M 

 N. polygama, Spreng. Syst. ii. 488; Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. 197. 

 N. pallescens, Mia. FL Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 314. Eugenia polygama, Boxb. 



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Eastern Bengal, Khasu Mts. ; Pegu, Kurz ; Mergui, Griffith ; MAIACCA^ 

 Maingay, Cuming. — Distrib. Java, Philippines, Australia. 



A shrub or small tree ; young parts and inflorescence covered with silky puoes- 

 cence. Leaves 2 by about 1 in., abruptly contracted at the base, cuspidate- acuminate, 

 dark and glossy above, paler and often of a reddish colour beneath. Panicles ascondingt 

 equalling or exceeding the leaves; bracts leaflike, or small and deciduous. Flowers 

 small, crowded. Calyx-tube mor^ or less clothed with white hairs; lobes ^®"^^ 

 less hairy or nearly glabrous. Petals ciliate. Style exserted. Berry globose, about 

 i in.— This plant varies much in the size of the flowers, the shape of the calyx-loOes, 

 and in the degree of hairiness. I have given M, pallescens as a synonym on © 

 authority of Kurz (Joum. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 57). Some of Maingays Malacca 

 specimens with an abnormally congested leafy inflorescence somewhat resemble - - 

 leucocoma, , 



Var, khadana-, leaves narrower, panicles long peduncled lax fe^-Ao'^^^'^ 



flowers larger, petals § longer than the calyx.— Khasia, Griffith, J. D. H. S' ^' ' 

 Kurz, . 



Var. Finlaysonimia; leaves thicker, panicles shorter than the leaves, calyx-^^^^ 

 densely clothed with white tomentum, lobes all rounded and less hairy, ^^5?^ 

 nearly equalling the petals. N. polymorpha, Blurne Mus. Bat. i. 75, t. Ix. ; ^^ 

 Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 7263.— No locality given, Finlayson, Lohb. 



8. E17GBMZA,Xmn. 



Trees or shrubs, smooth or rarely tomentose or villous. Leaves ^W^^^^^ 

 rarely alternate, coriaceous or membranous, pinnate-nerved. In/lor e^ce7u:e c 



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terminal 



terminal or lateral 



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panicles. Brctcts usually small and deciduous. Cidyx-tnbe globose ^^ J^^^l i 

 less elongate ; lobes 4 rarely 5. Pettds 4 rarely 5 or more or 0, free and ^P^^ 

 ing or united in a calyptra. Stamen'i oo, in many rows, free or slightly c 

 bmed into 4 bundles, filaments filiform ; anthers small, versatile, o^^si o 

 longitudinally. Ovary 2- rarely 3-K!elled ; style filiform, stigma small ; ^^'^^^ -g. 

 in each cell. Be7'ry drupelike, rarely dry and fibrous, crowned with ^^^ P®"^,^g 

 tent calyx4imb. Seeds few, globose, variously compressed, testa i^^^^^^'^bick 

 or cartilaginous ; embryo thick and fleshy, radicle short, cotyledons i^ 

 more or less united or distinct.— Disxrib. Upwards of 700 species i^^^*J*lij| 

 chiefly tropical and subtropical America, tropical Asia, a few in Ausx 

 and Africa. ^ ' ^ 



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