Tas. 8599. 
EUGENIA wnrrrora. 
Tropical South America. 
MyrtTackAr. 
Eveenta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 718. 
Eugenia uniflora, Linn., Sp. Pl. p. 470; Duthie in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. 
p. 505; species H. ligustrinae, Willd., affinis sed foliis latioribus, petio- 
lisque brevioribus facile distinguenda. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, ramulis teretibus glabris, internodiis foliis subaequi- 
longis. Folia opposita, ovato-elliptica, apice obtuse acuminata, basi 
rotundata, usque ad 6 cm. longa et 3°5 cm. lata, pagina inferiore costa 
nervis reticulationeque prominentibus, superiore costa leviter impressa, 
nervis et reticulatione prominulis, nervis lateralibus utrinque numerosis 
marginem versus anastomosantibus, integra, glabra, punctata, petiolo 
usque ad 3 mm, longo suffulta. Flores solitarii, axillares, saepissime 
remoti; pedunculus teres, usque ad 3°5 em. longus, glaber. Sepala 4, 
declinata, persistentia, in fructu maturo erecta vel leviter ineurva, 
oblonga, subobtusa, 5 mm. longa, 2°5 mm. lata, ciliolata. Petala 4, alba, 
declinata, oblongo-obovata, apice rotundata, 7 mm. longa, 4°5 mm. lata, 
ciliolata. Stamina numerosa, 3-4-seriata, filamentis usque ad 6 mm. 
longis glabris, antheris 0°75 mm. longis. Receptaculwm late turbinatum, 
glabrum. Stylus simplex, 6 mm. longus, glaber. Fructus plus minusve 
sphaericus, 2°5-8 em. diametro, profunde sulcatus, ruber, sepalis per- 
sistentibus erectis coronatus.—H. Micheliz, Lamk, Encye. Meth. vol. iii. 
p. 203; DC, Prodr. vol. iii. p. 263. EH. Willdenowi, DC. Prodr. vol. iii. 
p. 265. H. Parkeriana, DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 271. Myrtus brasiliana, 
Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 674. Plinia rubra, Linn. Mant. pars 2, p. 243. P. pedun- 
culata, Linn, f. Suppl. p. 253; Bot. Mag. t. 473. Stenocalyx Michelii, 
Berg in Mart. Flor. Bras. vol. xiv. pars 1, p. 8337.—W. B. Turriiu. 
The member of the Myrtle family which is here de- 
picted is a species which was already figured in this 
work, at t. 473, more than a century ago. This species, 
Eugenia uniflora, is a native of Brazil and other parts of 
tropical America, but there are few tropical regions in 
which it is not cultivated, while in many it has become 
naturalised and established as a denizen in the vegetation. 
The specimen on which Linnaeus originally based_his 
diagnosis came as a matter of fact from India: This 
may help to account for the fact that when he had to 
deal with a specimen of the same plant from a country 
of which it is really a native the illustrious Swede re- 
named it Plinia pedunculata, under which synonym it 
was described in these pages in 1799. We have not, 
Freruary, 1915, 
