Tab. 5480. 



ACMENA FLORIBUNDA. 



Copious-flowering Acmena. 



Nat. Ord. Myrtaceje. — Icosandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubo turbinate, cum ovario counato, limbo supero truocato, 

 juniore subinvoluto. Corolla petala 5, calycis fauci inserta, minima, distantia, 

 interdum nulla. Stamina plurima, calycis fauci inserta; fdamenta filiformia, 

 libera; anthera biloculares, dorso inserta?, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ova- 

 rium infemm, triloculare. Stylus brevis, simplex; stigma obtusum. Bacca glo- 

 bosa v. ovalis, monosperma. Semen subrotundum, crassura. Emhryonis exal- 

 buminosi cotyledones conferruminatae. — Frutex gluberrimus, in Nova Hollandia 

 orientali extratropica indigena ; foliis exstipulatis, pellucido-punctatis, intcgerri- 

 mis; cymis trifioris, in thyrsum terminalem paniculalum dispositis ; floribus 

 albis. Endl. 



Acmena floribunda ; foliis pellucido-punctatis ovali-lanceolatis utrinque acumi- 

 natis. 



Acmena floribunda. Be Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 262. 



Metrosideros floribunda. Sm. Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 3. p. 267. Vent. Mal- 

 mais. t. 75. 



Angophora floribunda, G. Don. 



/?. elliptica ; foliis ellipticis acuminatis, bacca alba. Be Cand. I. c. 



Eugenia elliptica. Sm. I. c. p. 281. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1872. 



Eugenia Smitlrii. Poir. 



Myrtus Smithii. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. i.p. 484. 



However beautiful and striking this plant (native of New 

 South Wales) may be, loaded, too, as our tree, above twenty 

 feet high, is, with its charming clusters of bright purple berries, 

 its flowers are quite unattractive, and perhaps amongst the 

 smallest and inconspicuous of all the Myrtle tribe. These 

 flowers appear, like those of many other Australian trees and 

 shrubs, in the winter season, and the berries succeed them in 

 the early spring, causing the extremities of the slender branches 

 to bend down by their weight. The tree is too large, however, 

 for successful cultivation in an ordinary greenhouse, but well 

 suited to our winter garden. De Cando'lle, I think with justice, 

 refers Sir James Smith's Eugenia elliptica to this species, con- 



OECEMBER 1ST, 1864. 



