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subtus albicantibus, cymis sessilibus plurifloris petiolo sub- 
brevioribus, calycis tubo glabro. Tobie Island, Mr. Bar- 
clay. 
In the more common Monozora spectabilis, Wight (which 
is Myrtus spectabilis, Blume, and Myrtus smilacifolia, Wall. 
Catal. 3629, and of which besides Wallich's specimens from 
Tavoy, and Marsden's from Sumatra, I have Malacca speci- 
mens, from Cuming, n. 2256 and 2285, the one-flowered pe- 
dicels proceed from so short a common peduncle that the 
inflorescence is an axillary fascicle, the calyx is thickly 
clothed with a somewhat ferruginous down, and the leaves 
are oblong or oval-oblong and three-nerved only or with a 
very slight trace of additional marginal nerves. 
In M. /atifolia, the leaves are twice as broad and usually 
evidently five-nerved, the peduncles, about three on each 
side, often bear three or more flowers, and the tube of the 
calyx is almost perfectly glabrous, the lobes alone (which 
are much broader than in M. spectabilis) being very slightly 
Pubescent and ciliate. The ovary in both species is as des- 
cribed by Wight, one-celled with two parietal placente 
Teaching from the apex toa little below the middle of the 
cell and each bearing a number of ovules irregularly ar- 
ranged. | 
A third species of the genus with precisely the same ovary 2 
and placentation is Myrtus trinervia, Sm., or Eugenia iri- = 
nervia, DC., which may be thus distinguished: Monoxora — 
.. Pübescens, foliis oblongis v. ovali-oblongis acuminatis tis triner- - 
..— Miis subtus tomentoso-pubescentibus ad venas rubescentibus, 
.  €ymis subsessilibus plurifloris petiolo 2-3-plo longioribus, 
= Calycis tubo glabriusculo. Of this I have examined some 
Specimens of A. Cunningham’s from Moreton Bay. 
The three-nerved canescent leaves of Myrtus tomentosa, 
it. give it so remarkable a ressemblance in habit to Mo- 
E noxora that I have been induced to examine with care the 
: -Structure of the ovary, and have found it to be essentially 
: : different. frows that represented by Wight, Ic. Pl. 2. cim 
-And though nearer to that of Monozora than of Myrtus, yet suf- 
