240 MYRTACEJI. 



9. ANAMOMIS, Gr. 



Calyx 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5. Ovary 2-4-celled, as long as the calyx-tube : cells multi- 

 ovulate. Berry 1-few-seeded. Testa membranaceous. Embryo annular : cotyledons dis- 

 tinct, large, incurved-obovate, flat, fleshy : radicle basilar, incurved and approaching the top 

 of the cotyledons. — Inflorescence cymose (rarely reduced to single pedicels) : central flower 

 sessile, 2 lateral ones pedicellate, inserted into the axils of the bracteoles. 



This genus in habit resembles Myrcia coriacea and Pimenta acris, in both of which, 

 however, the calyx-tube exceeds the ovary. From Eugenia it is easily distinguished by its 

 centrifugal inflorescence, and approaches Myrciaathes, the embryo of which is differently 

 described. A third Anamomis is Eugenia esculenta, Berg, a large tree, observed in Haiti 

 by Schomburgk. 



42. A. fragrans, Gr. Early glabrate; leaves leathery, oval-roundish or obovate, 

 emarginate at the rounded or obtusate top, shining above, black-dotted beneath, cartila- 

 ginous on the margin : pellucid dots early disappearing : veins delicate, distant ; peduncles 

 nearly as long as the leaves, puberulous ; bracteoles shorter than the sericeous calyx-tube ; 

 calyx-limb 4-partite ; berry globose. — Myrtus, Sw. Eugenia, IF. — A small tree, or shrub, 

 very variable in the leaves, their glands impressed or prominulous on the upper side, and 

 chiefly in the inflorescence, the cymes being either simple, 3 (-1) -flowered, or long-exserted, 

 with repeated, dichotomous ramifications, and the single 3-flowered cymes expanded or con- 

 tracted. 



a. Leaves oval-roundish, shortly petioled, rounded at the base; bracteoles linear. — Eugenia 

 rotundifolia, Macf. : a form with 3-1 -flowered, contracted cymes, and crenulate leaves. — 

 Leaves li"-2" long, 1"-1£" broad : petiole V" long; ultimate pedicels in the expanded 

 form 3"'-6'" long ; flowers 4'", berries 3'" diam. 



P. cuneata. Leaves obovate or oval, shortly cuneate at the petioled base ; bracteoles 

 lanceolate ; peduncles usually simple. — Eugenia emarginata, Macf. ; E. dichotoma and 

 bracteata, Macf. /—Leaves U*~2" long, 8'''-15"' broad : petiole V"-2'" long. 



Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Al., March, in the mountains. 



43. A . punctata, Gr. Bvanchlets pubescent ; leaves chartaceous, at length leathery, 

 elliptical, bluntish, cuneate at the base, black-dotted beneath, glabrate, pellucid-dotted, at 

 leugth opaque : veins delicate, distant ; peduucles nearly as long as the leaves, pubescent, 

 3-7-flowered ; bracteoles linear, as long as the pubescent calyx-tube, deciduous ; calyx- 

 limb 5-4-partite; berry globose. — Bot. Mag. t. 1241. — Eugenia, V. ; Myrcia, DC. ; M. 

 Balbisiana, DC. : a form with a contracted cyme. Eug. fragrans, Bot. Mag. (non W.). 

 E. dichotoma, DC. : the common form, with the lateral pedicels exceeding the central 

 flower. — Nearly allied to the preceding, but the leaves less rigid and less shining, not so 

 much variable in the leaves and the inflorescence : the embryo is the same in both. — Leaves 

 2"-l£" long, 1" broad: petiole 2"'-3" / , lateral pedicels in the expanded form 2"'-3"' long ; 

 flowers 4'", berries 3*' diam. — Hab. Antigua !, Wullschl. ; [Haiti !, French islands !]. 



10. PIMENTA, Lindl. & 



Calyx 4-5-lobed : tube turbinate. Petals 4-5. Ovary 2-celled : cells 2- or several-ovu- 

 late. Drupe 1-2-seeded. Testa membranaceous. Embryo spirally involute, or inflexed : 

 radicle elongated : cotyledons short. — Trees ; leaves leathery, black-dotted beneath, long- 

 petioled ; cymss terminal or axillary, trichotomous, many-flowered : flowers pedicellate, or 

 the central ones subsessile. 



44. P. vulgaris, W. A. Branchlets compressed-subtetragonal, glabrate ; leaves oblong, 

 or lauceolate-oblong, glabrous ; veins obsolete above, primary distant and slightly prominu- 

 lous beneath ; cymes compound, corymbiform, usually exserted ; calyx globed -. tube as 

 long as the ovary; drupe globose; embryo spirally involute. — SI. t. 191. f. 1. Hayne 

 Arzn. 10. t. 37.— Myrtus Pimenta, L. ; Eugenia Pimenta, DC— 30-40' high ; leaves 6"- 

 2*, petiole 5"'-6"' long ; flowers 3'", drupes 3'" diam. The male Pimento is a form with 

 the female organs less developed. — Hab. Jamaica !, all coll., common, chiefly on limestone ; 

 [Cuba!, cultivated in many tropical countries]. 



A form with the leaves elliptical-oblong, and the calyx-tube produced beyond the ovary, 



