482 ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eugenia. 
Bark of the old ligneous parts, smooth and brown, of the 
tender shoots smooth and green. 
It is a very perfect ever green, and the foliage uncom- 
monly dark. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolar, chorus ser- 
rulate at the margin, having the upper surface of a cleat, 
shining deep green, and the under one paler, with ‘the a- 
pex rather obtuse, from three to six inches long, and from 
one to two broad. Stipules large, linear, sheathing, cadu- 
cous. Peduncles axillary, or where the last year’s leaves 
grew, opposite, rigid, thick and short, generally twice bifid 
with about three or four sessile, small greenish white flow- 
ers on the apex of each division. Bractes small, suban- 
nular. Calyx superior, from six to seven-toothed; segments 
triangular.and acute. Petals six or seven, inserted by 
short claws into the calyx immediately under its fissures, 
sub-reniform, with the margins much curled, and laterally 
incurved,embracing the middle part of the largertilaments- 
Filaments from twelve to fourteen, inserted into the calyx, 
alternately shorter, and incurved. Anthers incumbent. 
Germ sub-inferior, with a large turbinate crown rising in 
the centre like the true germ itself, as if the calyx wet? 
inferior, this crown is embraced by a yellow crenate riDg, 
which may be called a nectary ; the germ is five- 
with two ovula in each cell attached to the middle of the 
axis. Style nearly as long as thecorol. Stigma edi 
fiye-lobed. 
EUGENTIA. Schreb. gen. n. 842. 
~ Calyx entire, or four-parted. Corol four-petalled. 
Germ inferior, two-celled; cells many-seeded ; attachment 
interior. “ Berry one or more seeded, Embryo wil 
perisperm, — ne 3 
a fi 
Se eee 
