280 XLVIII. MYRTACER, [Nelitris, — 
late, oy acuminate, narrowed at the base, 1 to 2 in. long , glabrous above, 
with fine scare cely conspicuous nearly transverse veins, silky- “pubescent under- 
neath or “at length glabrous. Flowers smaller than in other Australian 
Myrtles, the racenies usually shorter or scarcely longer than the leaves, but 
often forming an elegant lealy panicle, Calyx very silky- pba the tube 
about 4 line long, and the lobes about the same length. Petals twice as 
long as the peru, more or Meo bei OR ay ” Anthers "uL near! 
CHL Y Wight, Te. MTM ges elachantha, F. 
Muell. Taa iv. "86. a 
ueensland. Moreton Bay, W. Hil/; Pine woods, Wide Bay, Bi ‘dil Common 
in e Beate Archipelago up to the Philippine Islands and in the eastern provinces of India — 
E^ azifora. Leaves ORB. the veins more or. less transverse (only visible in the old 
l car Sëtze more numerous, in looser racemes and rather larger, the calyx glabrous or 
pot ied Pihani. Ovary 5-celled with 5 to 7 Greet in each cell (usually 2 p 
common form). Fruit not seen. Perhaps a distinct species.— Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. ` 
43. EUGENIA, Linn. 
(Jossinia, Comm. ; Jambosa, DC. ; Sysygium, Gertn. ; Acmena, DC.) 
produced above the ova obes 4, very rarely 3 fiom large and imbricate 
ve 
and falling off in a single calyptra. Stam numerous, in several x3 
anthers versatile erc) small, 
in each cell, or ane n American section r eel 
almost a aa or deals dry with a fibrous rind. Seeds either solitary wé 
globose, or few and variously-shaped by compression ; embranous © 
able.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, penniveined. Flowers e trie 
Australian species) mither solitary in the axils, or in lateral or termina 
chotomous geen or pan 
6 : KE 
4 common to East India and the Archipelago. The genus has been variously sibi A chiefly 
sections or genera by different botanists UE s whether they have worked € : 
upon American or upon Asiatie species. The ini e nvenient caes how Zen? 
be that eigen by Wight, A. Gray, and others, sën kel wes the genus all Myris "m 
fleshy fruits an eg fleshy cotyledons ere a very short radicle, Au. perhaps 
cor. l. Bueugenia.—Pedicels short, 1-flowered, ler or 9 together in the fe | 
or at the old nodes. m -tube not at all or deu Leier? ced — the pei n ; 
Sree and spreading E 
Seer. I. Rus Se in NC panicles or cymes. 
Calyx- m mgre 
