S Eugenia.| XLVIII. MYRTACES. 287 
ike on the margin. Petals quite separate, 14 to 2 lines diameter. Stamens 
. miher longer than the petals. Ovar mde ery short in the bottom of the calyx, 
with about 6 recurved ovules in each e 
N. E Port Essington, Suis N. coast, A. Cunningham. 
ES a F. Muell. Fragm. v. 15. A small handsome tree of 15 
| 639 A E. quite glabrous. Leaves ebe lpia to SE 
. Wuminate, narrowed at the base, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 in. long, not very thick, 
the veins oblique and prominent underneath. owes white, remarkable for 
_ their long slender stamens, in trichotomous pedunculate cymes, either oppo- 
gie at the base of the new shoots, or terminal in pairs, the peduncles, branches 
ad pedicels slender. Calyx narrow-turbinate, nearly 3 lines long, tapering 
iito a pedicel, sometimes short, sometimes as long as the calyx; lobes 4, 
ovate or broad, about 1 line long. Petals quite separate, about 1} lines dia- 
meter. Filaments very numerous and fine, 4 in. long or more. Ovary not 
lalf so long as the calyx- tube, with about 8 Sieg in sss cell; style long 
and sle M ege E 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. Very near E. rivularis, Seem., from the 
Di te D the veins of the leaves are not nea MEN so numerous or close, and more — 
and the stamen arly twice is te as in that species 
than the tube. Petals aot seen. Ch s of sons those of Eugenia. 
1 Ovary eL with rather numerous dei n each cell, but only one or two 
; e same cell enlarged. ne seed dee that of Eugenia, but 
not far enough advanced to detern 
sland. Rockin har e aspect of this plant is very different 
SEN of any Eugen gen Yo gi wm , Date hy te Fors podea s4 they supply no cha- 
separate from the gen 
39 228 IV. Lecyruipex.—Ovary divided more or less completely into 
t more cells, Fruit woody fibrous or fleshy, indehiscent or opening in 
reu at the top. Leaves alternate, not dotte 
shaped I. BannINGTONIE;E.—S(amens Dee? on a regular broad or 
E. Dui Ped disk (not unequally produced on one side as in “the American 
F 
inc ideo), ruit credis or fleshy but not woody. Calyx usually 
dluost, but not quite valva ! 
| 44, BARRINGTONIA, Forst. 
Cal (Stravadium, Juss.) : 
: ae ovoid or turbinate, not at all or ly produced above the 
‘Whee, € limb either closed in the bud and splitting into 2 to 4 iris 
Er nis or rarely with 3 or 4 lobes, imbricate in the bud. Petals 4 or 5 
