Tas. 5790. 
MYRCIA AMPLEXICAULIS. 
Ampleaicaul-leaved Myrcia. 
Nat. Ord. Myrracea.—lIcosanpRia MonoGyYnia. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinatus v. hemisphericus; limbi lobi 5, rarius 
3 v. 4. Petala 5, rarissime 3 v. 4, patentia. Stamina , «-seriata, 
libera, filamentis filiformibus; anthere versatiles, v. fere basifixe, loculis 
parallelis v. altero altius affixo, longitudinaliter v. oblique dehiscen- 
tibus. Ovarium 4-rarius 2-loculare; stylus filiformis, stigmate parvo; 
ovula in loculis gemina, collateralia. Bacca calycis limbo reliquiis 
coronata. Semina sepius 1-2, subglobosa: radicula longiuscula, in- 
curva v. cyclica; cotyledones contortuplicate. — Arbores fruticesve 
Americe tropice et subtropice incole. Folia opposita, pennivenia. 
Flores sepius parvi, cymosi v. paniculatt. 
Myrcta amplexicaulis ; ramulis tomentosis et sericeo-strigosis, foliis amplis 
sessilibus basi lata cordatis amplexicaulibus oblongis acuminatis reticu- 
_ lato-costatis nervis plurimis arcuatis, paniculis brachiatis oppositis folio 
multo brevioribus, floribus fasciculatis, fasciculis remotis, antheris 2- 
locularibus linearibus loculis parallelis rimis longitudinalibus. 
EveEnta amplexicaulis.— Vellozo, Flor. Flum., v. 5, t. 44. 
Gomiprs1a amplexicaulis—Berg, in Mart. Flor. Brazil. ; Myrt., p- 13. 
A very handsome Brazilian stove-shrub, remarkable for its 
fine evergreen persistent foliage. A native of the province 
of Rio de Janeiro, where it probably forms a bush or small 
tree, though it flowers freely in the stoves at Kew when only 
three to five feet high. 2 
Berg, in his elaborate account of the Brazilian A/yrtacee, 
in Von Martius’ Flora of Brazil, describes the calyx-lobes 
of this plant as acute, from the wretched drawing in Flora 
_ Fluminensis, where they are incorrectly figured as acute on 
the plant of the natural size, but correctly as truncate im the 
enlarged analysis; Berg further states that the anthers are 
figured by Vellozo as those of a Gomidesia (viz. 4-celled) ; but 
I see no signs of this in the figure, nor in the live plant. 
lwDesor. A shrub, covered everywhere with a soft velvety 
tomentum. Branches strict. erect, terete, stout ; branchlets 
AuGuUsT Ist, 1869. 
