520 MYRTACE (Sond.) [ Olinia. 
1, 0. cymosa (Thunb.! fl. cap. 194); Sideroxylon cymosum, Linn. 
Jil. Suppl. 152. 
' Var. a, latifolia; leaves obovate or broad-ovate, obtuse, subemarginate, and 
apiculate, sometimes acute, cuneate at the base. 0. cymosa, Thunb. l. c. Klotzsch. 
l. c. 60, t. 24. 
Var. 8, intermedia; leaves elliptic, acute or subacuminate at both ends, rarely 
obtuse and apiculate at the apex. 0. Capensis, Klotzsch. 1. c. 6, t. 3. 
Var. 5. acuminata; leaves oblong, acuminate at both ends, obtuse and mucronu- 
late at the apex ; flowers generally a little smaller. 0. acuminata, K. l. c. 53, t. 21. 
Has. About Tablemountain and in the districts of Stellenbosch, Caledon, George, 
Uitenhage, and Albany, Zeyher, 2464, 2465, Ecklon, Drege, Thunb. Magalisberg, 
Zey., 308. June-Dec. (Herb. Th., Hm., D. Sd.) 
Leaves undulated or flat, a little reflexed at the margins, 1-2} inches long, paler 
beneath, with short petioles. Cymes terminal, and in the upper axils, shorter than 
the leaves. Bracts white, oblong-linear, ciliolate at the margins, 24 lines long. 
Calyx about 2-3 lines long, greenish-white, with nearly obsolete teeth. Petals 
white, spathulate, acute, twice shorter than the calyx-tube. Scales incurved, pilose. 
Fruit the size of a small hazle-nut. 
OrpDER LXVI. MYRTACEZ., 
2 Pte 3 (By W. SonpEr.) 
Flowers perfect, regular, Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, ‘either 
wholly or in part ; limb 4-5 or many-cleft or parted, imbricated (or 
valvate) in zstivation. Petals rarely wanting, inserted on the fleshy 
margin of the calyx-tube, alternate with its lobes, imbricate or twisted 
in estivation. Stamens indefinite or rarely definite, inserted with the 
petals; filaments free or polyadelphous ; anthers introrse, slitting. 
Ovary inferior or half-inferior, sometimes unilocular, with one or few 
ovules; most usually 2 or many-celled, with numerous ovules. Style + 
simple ; stigma undivided. Fruit either a succulent berry or a dry 
capsule; sometimes dry and indehiscent. Seeds without albumen. 
Trees or shrubs, very rarely herbs. Leaves usually opposite, rarely alternate or 
whorled, entire, penninerved, with an intra-marginal vein, almost always pellucid- 
dotted, exstipulate. Flowers either axillary and solitary, or in axillary or terminal 
cymes, corymbs or panicles, or sometimes capitate or spiked. A very large Order, 
extremely abundant in South America and Australia ; less common in Asia, very 
thinly scattered over Africa, chiefly tropical, with a few outlying species in the tem- 
perate zones. Many valuable spices, as cloves, allspice, &c. ; and many fruits, as 
’ the guava, pomegranate, ugni, &c., are products of these plants. The bark in all 
is astringent, and the foliage of most yields an aromatic essential oil. 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA, 
Tribe 1. LeprosperMe®, DC, Fruit dry, many-celled, dehiscent. Seeds exarillate. 
I. Metrosideros.—Stamens free. Capsule 2-3-celled. 
Tribe 2. Myrrex, DC. Fruit fleshy, baccate, many-seeded. Leaves full of 
pellucid dots. 
II, Syzygium.—Limb of calyx almost entire or repandly-lobed. Petals 4-5, con-)~! 
crete, falling off in the 2 of a calyptra. 
Ill. etre of calyx deeply 4- rarely 5-parted. Petals 4, very rarely 5,%)-S 
not concrete. 
Tribe 3. Barrinerontex, DC, Frwit baccate or dry, valveless, many-celled. 
Leaves without pellucid dots, a~! 
IV. Barringtonia. 
