ft$2 Dr. Smith's Botanical Characters of fame Plants 



find another circumftance, mentioned by Gsertner as difcriminating 

 them, the two cells in the germen of Syzvgium, does not hold good, 

 being alio to be found in Eugenia. I beg leave here to confider as 

 the true Eugenia that which Micheli firft called fo, and which ftands 

 in the latter editions of Linnaeus in three different places, being his 

 Eugenia unifiora, Myrius brafiUana, and Plmia pedunculiia, and there 

 is no doubt of its according exactly in generic characters with 

 Eugenia Iambos, What really conftitutes the genus of Plmia is 

 very doubtful, Plumier's figures, and the defcriptions of other 

 authors taken from them, being a mafs of inextricable confufion ; 

 but if thefe figures mean any thing, they cannot accord with our 

 Eugenia, nor indeed do they refemble it, except in the pulpy fruit 

 being furrowed, fomewhat (but not exactly) like that of Eugenia: 

 tiniflora. I am aware however that the opinion of Linnaeus in the- 

 Euppkmentum Planiarum is here againft me, as well as that of my 

 accurate friend Mr. Dryander in the Hortus Kewenfis. If Plumier's 

 original fpeeies of Plinia fhould ever be found, it will remove the 

 doubt. In the mean time, one of the few points of which we are 

 certain is, that if the common Eugenia uniflora be not a Plinia^ it 

 muft conflitute the real genus of Eugenia, whatever the other 

 plants may be that are now arranged under that name; and if it 

 be a Plinia^ Eugenia lambos is one likewife. 



9. EUCALYPTUS. VHeritier Serf. Angl. t. 20. Ait. Horu Kew> 

 v. 1. 157. Bot. of New Holl. u 13. 



Char. Gen. Calyx fuperus, perfiftens, truncatus, ante an- 

 thefm tectus operculo integerrimo, deciduo. Corolla nulla, 

 Capfula quadrilocularis, apice dehifcens, polyfperma. 



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