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, lauceolar, sharply ser- 

 rulate at the margin, having the upper surface of a clear, 

 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. Ca/j/.r superior, from six to seven-toothed; ^e^/m^w/^ 

 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 larger filaments. 

 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 (he true germ itself, as if the calyx were 

 inferior, this crown is embraced by a yellow crenate ring, 

 which may be called a nectary ; the germ is five-celled 

 with two ovula in each cell attached to the middle of the 

 axis. Style nearly as long as the corol. Stigma peltate, 

 five lobed. 



EUGENIA. Schreh.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 without 

 perisperm. 



