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Eugenia fragrans. Sweet-scented 

 Eugenia. 



Clafs and Order. 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 



Generic Characler. 



Cal. 5-partitus, fuperus. Petala 4. Bacca l-locularis, i- 

 fperma. 



Specific Char a tier and Synonyms. 



EUGENIA fragrans ; pedunculis axillaribus trichotomis firrh 

 plicibufque, floribus in dichotomiis feffilibus, foliis 

 ovatis convexiufculis fubcoriaceis punft atis glabris^ 

 caule arboreo. 



EUGENIA fragrans. IVilld. Sp. PL 2. p. 964. 



EUGENIA montana ; foliis ovatis acutis, floribus terminali- 

 bus, fructu parvo albo, punctis rubris notato. 

 Aubl. Guian. 1. p. 495. /. 195. 



MYRTUS fragrans ; pedunculis axillaribus tricbotomis fim- 

 plicibufque, foliis ovatis convexiufculis fubcoria- 

 ceis pun£tatis glabris, caule arboreo. Swart* 

 Prod. 79. hi. Ind. Occid. 1. p. 914. Vahl Symb. 

 2. p. 59. Mart. Mill. Ditt. n. 34. 



Eugenia and Myrtus are not eafily diilinguifhed, and 

 their divifion into two genera is perhaps altogether arbitrary ; 

 both the number of petals and of cells in the fruit being far 

 from conftant. Our plant has however, for the moft part, a 

 four- cleft calyx and only four petals, and according to Aubl et, 

 whofe Eugenia montana is certainly the fame fpecies with the 

 one here figured, though quoted as a doubtful fynonym by 

 Willdenow, the berries are one-celled and finde-feeded. 

 E u g e n i a paniculat a of Jacquin, given as another dubious 

 fynonym in Willdenow, we conclude does not belong to 

 our plant, as the flowers are all on longifh pedicles. 



Native of the mountains of the fouth of Jamaica, and or 

 Mount Serpent in Guiana. Our drawing was made at Meffrs. 

 Whitley and Br ami's, O'd-Brompton. 



Is ufually kept in the bark ftove, but being an inhabitant of 

 the mountains, will probably be found not to require a high 

 temperature. 



