Tab. 5644 



MYETUS Cheken. 

 Chequen of Chili. 



Nat. Ord. Myetace.e. — Poltandkia Monogtnia. 



Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinatus, adnatus, ultra ovarium vix aut 

 breviter productus ; lobi 4-5, imbricati v. aperti. Petala 4-5, patentia. 

 Stamina oc, cc-seriata, libera ; authera? basifixae, rimisdehiscentes. Ovarium 

 perfecte v. imperfecte liberum, 2-3- rarius 4-loculare ; stylus filiformis, 

 stimulate parvo v. rarius eapitato ; ovula in loculis oo, angulo centrali inor- 

 dinate oo-seriatim affixa. Bacca calycis tubo inclusa, limbo coronata v. 

 rarius limbo deciduo nuda. Semina perfecta l-2-oo, subreniformia, testa 

 ossea Crustacea v. membranacea ; embryo hippocrepicus v. parum involutus, 

 radiculalongissimatereti, cotyledonibus multo brevioribus nunc minimis. — 

 Erutices, rarius arbores. Folia opposita. Pedunculi axillares, scepius 

 graciles, 1-3-7- rarius ao-flori. 



Myrttjs (Luma) Cheken ; fruticosa, dense foliosa, ramulis glabris pube- 

 rulis tomentosisve obscure 4-gonis ibliisque glanduloso-punctatis, foliis 

 patulis breviter petiolatis elliptico- v. oblongo-ovatis apiculatis basi 

 obtusis acutisve utrinque glaberrimis nervis paucis indistinctis, pedun- 

 culis 1-floris foliis longioribus brevioribusve, bracteolis infra calycem 

 subulatis, floribus \ unc. diam. albis 4-meris, calycis lobis petalisque 

 orbicularis, petalis glabris ciliolatisve. 



Myktus Cheken. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 85, excl. syn. 



Eugenia Cheken. DC. JProdr. v.3. p.276. Hook, et Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 

 56. C. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 2. p. 390. 



Luma Cheken. A. Gray, Bot. IF. S. Expl. Exped. v. 1. p. 536. t. 66. 



This is one of those pretty evergreen Chilian plants, so 

 suitable for walls in all the milder parts of England, and for 

 greenhouse decoration everywhere, but which is apt to be 

 cut by a winter's cold below the average, and burnt by a 

 long summer's drought, on the eastern side of the kingdom. 

 Its nearest affinity is with the Myrtus Luma {Eugenia Luma. 

 supra, Tab. 5040), which, indeed, is united (perhaps rightly) 

 with it as a variety by A. Gray, but that plant has more 

 distinctly apiculate leaves and usually three-flowered pedun- 

 cles. 



mat 1st. 1S67. 



