50. MYRTAfTE.E. 17 



HAB. Takow. 



DISTRIB. Loo-choo, Malaya, Ceylon, Tropical Africa, Polynesia, Northern 

 Australia. 



3. Quisqualls LINN. 



Quisqualis indica LINN. ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enura. PI. Formos. 

 p. 140. 



HAB. South Cape, Koshun, Kurarn. 

 DISTRIB. Tropical Asia. 



50. Myrtacese. 



Conspectus of f/tc. Formowui 



Ovary 2- or more-celled. Fruit a berry or drupe. Leaves opposite 



gland-dotted. (Myrtere). (1) 

 Ovary 2- or more- celled. Fruit fibrose berry. Leaves alternate, 



not gland-dotted. (L e c y t h i d e ?e) ............. Barringtonia. 5 



( 1 ) Limb of calyx closed in bud, with the lobes subimbricate, rather 



deeply valvately divided when in flower ............. Psidinm. 1 



Limb of calyx 4-5-lobed or parted in bud, not becoming further 



divided when in flower. (2) 

 ( 2 ) Ovary 1-3-celled with double rows of ovules in each cell, separated 



by spurious partitions. Leaves 3-nerved ......... TtJiodomyrtus. 2 



Ovary 5- rarely 4-celled with 2-3 ovules in each cell. Embryo 



long and narrow, curved, circular, or spherical, with small 



cotyledons ................................... Decaspermum. 3 



Ovary 2-3-celled with several ovules in each cell and without spu- 



rious partitions. Embryo thick and fleshy, not divisible or with 



2 thick fleshy cotyledons and a short radicle ......... Eugenia. 4 



1. Psidimn LINN. 



Psidium Guyava LINN. ; MATSUM, et HAYATA Enura. PI. Formos. 

 p. 142. 



