of the Natural Order cf Myrti. 2 8 1 



1. Eugenia elliptica, foliis cllipticis acuminatis,' floribus pani- 

 culatis, calyce repando, bacca globofa. 



A tree or fhrub of New South Wales, with round dichotomous 

 leafy branches. The leaves are oppofite, on iliort foot-ftalks, ellip- 

 tical, pointed at both ends, entire, a little revolute, fmooth, with one 

 rib and many parallel fide veins. Panicles about the fummits of the 

 branches, axillary and terminal, erecl:, con fitting of ^numerous, 

 oppofite, fmooth, branched and forked (talks, without braclea\ 

 Flowers fmall. Calyx clavate, its margin waved, but not toothed. 

 Petals four, white, very minute and fugacious. Stamina nume- 

 rous. Style fhort, with a fimple ftigma. Berry the fize of a large 

 pea, globular, white, crowned with the calyx, and confiding of a 

 thick pulpy coat, inverting a folitary feed. The leaves are full of 

 refinous fpots, and the calyx abounds with a fragrant efTential oil. 



No plant in the order has given me fo much trouble, to deter- 

 mine its genus, as this. It undoubtedly belongs to the Syzygium 

 of Gsertner, tab. 35, which is to be diftinguiihed from Eugenia only 

 by having a bacca with a fingle feed, inftead of a drupa. Gartner 

 indeed has not told us exactly what he underftood by Eugenia, nor 

 has he figured any thing under that name ; but I prefume he rrieant 

 either the original Eugenia uniflora of Micheli, or the E. lambos. I 

 have examined ripe fruits of both thefe, and the young germen of 

 the former of them, which has two cells, with the rudiments of a 

 feed in each. When the fruit is ripe, it in both fpeciesxonfifls of 

 one large feed, clothed with a very thin (hell or ikin, without any 

 fiffure or feam, and the whole enveloped in a firm flefhy pulp. In 

 my Eugenia elliptic a juft defcribed, the pulp is immediately attached 

 to the feed itfelf, as Gaertner defcribes his Syzygium. I think how- 

 ever with Juflleu, that the two genera may be fafely united ; for wc 



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