282 XLVIII. MYRTACER. : [ Eugenia. 
in the axils or at the old nodes. Calyx-tube (in the Old World spa not 
. at all or scarcely produced above the ovary. Petals free and sprea 
This nie Ser more definitely voee d by the m than by the aln com- 
prises only of the Old World species, but very numerous Ameri and, 
according to de views of those ie nae studied chiefly Gen can Myrtaceae, pte with 
other species having a racemose or Bëtong (not trichotomous or ben. Meses e aues 
cence, eege? the ‘hole genus Eugenia, to the Str of Syzygium and Jam 
l. E. carissoides, F. Muell. Fragm. 130. A shrub, w go 
divaricate prane branches. Leaves ech estes ovate viol « or 
the ovary ; we A nearly orbicular, sanati Y about as long as the ‘ale 
P nd falling 
rather numerous. Berry globular, 3 to 4 lines diameter, and 1-seeded, or 
oblong with 2 superposed seeds, or broader than long and somewhat didy- 
mous with 9 collateral seeds, crowned by the calyx-lobes.— E, hypospodia, 
F. Muell. Fragm. v 
Queensland. Northumberland Islands, R. Brown; Cape York, M‘Gillivray ; com- 
mon on rocks at Port Denison and Rockin gham Bay, Da 7/ achy. 
ES les is very trai ye to, and perhaps not realty distinct from, Æ. rarifiora, 
n Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 221; A. Gray, Bot. U. S. Expl. Exped. i. 514, t. 60, a 
seis widely — over the gd Seit, ‘sian d differing chiefly, as E as known, in 
ts much larger 
Section 2. SvzvoruM.—Flowers in trichotomous panicles or cymes. 
Calyx-tube more or less produced above the ovary, the border entire or very 
Ke voces aie or with more prominent but very deciduous lobes. 
etals more or less cohering in a enie and falling off together, or rarely 
Wee o and separately deciduous 
se species are all natives of the Ses World, lie a dea few have in some meas 
been d in some parts of tropical im on is often considered as o 
s, but there are too many infu in xe yes eech from the calyx 
Se is doubtful or variable, to allow of its being ht $ beer from Jaméosa. 
- Dict. Suppl. iii. 126. A tree, sometimes small 
ct. 
and slender, but attaining in some places a dir height, quite gla- 
brous. Leaves petiolate, from ovate to ovate-oblong or ovate- lanceolate, . 
m l i 
2 to 3 in. 
lobes either all very short broad and scarcely prominent, or 1 or e flat 
larger almost petal-like and deciduous. Real petals 4, united in a — 
very deciduous calyptra. Stamens scarcely 1 line long; anthers i 
distinct globular divaricate cells. Ovules rather numerous. ; 
pup globul ar, } to } in. diameter, crowned by the — hu 
calyx-rim ; "ndocarp thick and hard. Co Saad closely com 
liptica, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 281, not of Lam. ; ‘Bot. Mag 
du Nus se 
