Descr. A tree, according to Swartz, clothed witha — 
grey, brown bark. Branches compressed, in our dry spe- _ 
cimens, (but Swartz describes them as terete,) four-angled, — 
often marked with very minute, raised points, glabrous. — 
Leaves opposite, three to five inches long, very coriaceous, 
elliptical, obtuse, convex above, the margins revolute, wav- 
ed and subtortuose, with many parallel, nearly horizontal 
nerves united by reticulations which are most apparent on 
the upperside, (where are impressed dots,) and, in the dry 
state, beneath pale, with discoloured, not depressed dots. 
Panicles pedunculate, axillary, the peduncles as long as, 
or longer than, the leaves, very compressed, ancipitate: 
branches brachiate, each subtended by opposite, small, de- 
ciduous bracteas. Calyx, including its adherent tube, ob- 
conical, punctate, of four short, spreading, obtuse lobes, 
which are downy within. Petals five, nearly orbicular, 
scarcely clawed. Stamens numerous. Anthers yellow. — 
Germen small, adherent with the tube of the calyx, the 
summit only free, two-celled, with one broad ovule pendent 
from the top of each cell. Style longer than the stamens, 
plane: Stigma obtuse. The perfect fruit I have not seel. — 
Of this highly fragrant plant I am not aware that any — 
good figure exists. It is, indeed, on account of its affinity — 
with the Myrrus Pimenta of Linn us, involved in some ob- 
scurity; having, I fear, been not unfrequently confounded — 
with that grateful aromatic. In the absence of fruit, 1t18— 
perhaps, best distinguished by its five- (not four) lo 
calyx, its more elliptical, and far more coriaceous leave 
which are glossy and reticulated (when dry) on the uppe — 
surface. The seeds are very different in the two plants, if 
Der Canpotte be correct, and hence they are by him referred — 
to different Genera, Myrrus Pimenta to Events, and the — 
M. acris of Swartz to Myrcia. In the former, the radicle 
and the cotyledons are very thick and conferruminated: 9 
Myrcia the cotyledons are coriaceous and corrugated and 
contortuplicate. From Myrrvus they are both distinguished ; 
by the extremely thin and membranous coat to the , 
In Eveeyia Pimenta the stigma is certainly capitate, 9 
scribed by Mr. Linptey. | 
The Myrcra acris is a native of Jamaica, and, probably, : 
of other West India Islands. I have numerous | 
from the Rev. L. Guripine from St. Vincent. 2 
Lunan, the author of “ Hortus Jamaicensis,” thus speaks : 
of this plant. “ It may contend with most trees for the a 
of elegance ; it grows slowly, and attains a considem” 
