MYRTACEAE 
9. LAGUNCULARIA Gaertn. Shrubs or trees, evergreen. Leaves 
opposite. Flowers polygamous, in simple or branched spikes. Hypanthium 
ribbed. Petals hod shorter than the 
sepals. Stamens 10. Fruit spicate or 
MAN E species. 
. L. racemosa Gaertn. f. Shrub, or tree 
sometimes 20 m. tall: leaf- blades oblong, 
varying to oval or obovate, 2-0 cm. jong, 
entire, oe or nearly so on both sides: 
ey nae . long: drupe poe -obovoid, 
2 — (WHITE-MANGR HITE- 
BUTTON ae )—Roeky and a shores and 
tal hammocks, pen. Fla. and the Keys. 
OW. a, C. A, S. aa 
white flowers are very fragrant, 
yellow-brown heart-wood is close- pen 
d mp" and hard. The bark is rich in tanni 
Famity 5. MYRTACEAE — MYRTLE FAMILY 
hrubs acd herbs, abounding in pungent and aromatie 
volatile oil, evergreen. opposite, or rarely a alternate or whorled: 
blades often simple, ‘pellucid- “punctate, flat or very thick, often 
with iid parallel with the margins. Flowers eden regular. Calyx 
, or many, valvate or imbricate, persistent oltre or cap-like and 
ium or wanting. 
or trees, or 
y 
E united. Fruit sometimes dehiscent, often erowned with the ealyx.— 
Sixty genera and about 1,750 species, widely distributed in the tropies. 
Fruit fleshy, baccate: leaf-blades pinnately v ned. 
Calyx of several persistent or tardily a ceeds val- 
vate sepals, 2 lid-like: petals present: disk 
fruit a berry crowned with the > persis- 
caly apale vith an annular ring. 
Calyx of regularly separa a m 
ly f irregularly separating s epa als. 
j early deciduous: petals wanting: disk 
cup-like: fruit crowned with the cup-like disk and 
hypanthium. Tribe IIT. MYRCIEAE. 
Fruit d. capsular: leaf-blades parallel-veined. Tribe IV. MELALEUCEAE. 
I. EUGENIEAE 
: flowers in raceme-like, umbel-like, or 
Tribe I. IZUGENIEAE. 
Tribe II. MYRTEAE. 
1. EUGENIA. 
Cymes markedly Selon? 
disk contracted at maturity, the BENE Du an 
gin e frui eds one or m 2. ANAMOMIS. 
Cymes sessi ile or nearly so, the terminal flowers stalke 
disk expanded, the sepals lax, more 2 
the top of the fruit: seeds several to ny. 3. MOSIERA. 
II. MYRTEAE 
Leaf-blades prominently ribbed : cymes 1-few-flowered, axillary. 4. PSIDIUM. 
MYRCIEAE 
Leaf-blades obscurely ribbed: cymes several-many-flowered. 
5. CALYPTRANTHES. 
