Myrtus Cheken has been for some years in cultivation, and 

 was introduced from Chili, I believe, by Messrs. Veitch. 

 The plant from which the accompanying drawing was made 

 flowered in Kew in July, 1866. In Chili it is in great re- 

 pute as a medicine in cases of inflammation of the eyes, in 

 diarrhoea, and in other disorders. 



Desck. A small, densely-leafy, much branched shrub. 

 Branchlets obscurely tetragonous, glabrous pubescent or 

 tomentose, covered with glandular dots. Leaves close-set, 

 shortly petioled, one-third of an inch long, oblong-ovate or 

 oblong, obtuse, apiculate or subacute, nearly flat, quite 

 glabrous, nerves obscure. Peduncles solitarv, usually one- 

 flowered, shorter or longer than the leaves, slender. Flower 

 two-thirds of an inch in diameter, white. Calyx tube turbi- 

 nate, with two subulate bracts at the base ; limb of four orbi- 

 cular lobes. Petals orbicular, glabrous or ciliated. Stamens 

 Very numerous. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with the petals and stamens removed :— 

 'Hitf/ni/iea. 



