sidering it a variety with white berries and broader foliage, de- 

 pending on the paler or almost white colour of the berries. This 

 Eugenia eUiptica is figured by Sims in the ' Botanical Magazine,' 

 1. c. ; but the figure does not do justice to the species, and is 

 destitute of flowers, while, on the other hand, the fruit was un- 

 known to Ventenat, who has well represented a flowering speci- 

 men. 



Descr. A tree in our conservatory, attaining a height of 

 twenty feet, and very much resembling a gigantic large-leaved 

 Myrtle {Myrtus communis). Leaves very dark-green, two to 

 three inches long, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, pellucido-punctate, 

 short-petioled. Panicles terminal, thyrsoid. Floicers very small. 

 Calyx turbinate or subsemiglobose, with five very indistinct 

 teeth. Petals quite minute, elliptical-cuneate, erect, much shorter 

 than the numerous stamens. Ovary incorporated with the fleshy 

 base of the calyx, which eventually becomes a globose, rich- 

 purple subpellucid berry, the size of a large pea, umbilicated at 

 the summit, of an acid flavour, but destitute of aroma. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, cut through vertically, showing the stamens 

 and style. 3. Ovary, cut through transversely : — magnified 



