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nerved, with an intramarginal vein, almost always pellucid- 
dotted and aromatic or resin-scented, exstipulate. Flowers 
solitary or in cymes panicles or heads.—The Order is very 
abundant in South America and Australia, much less so in 
Asia, and very scantily represented in Africa. 
Tribe 1. LeprospeRMEx. Fruit dry, capsular, many-celled, dehiscent. 
Stamens much-exserted, free. Capsules 2-3-celled . 1. METROSIDEROS. 
Tribe 2. Myrtrrx. Fruit a fleshy berry. Leaves dotted. 
Calyx-limb almost entire or repand. Petals concrete 
imommentypura (LS ws 2) Syaverom. 
Calyx-limb more or less deeply 4-5-parted. Petals 
separate. 
Calyx-tube turbinate. Petals 5. Flowers in ter- 
minal cymes. .- . 38. ACMENA. 
Calyx-tube globose. "Petals 4 (very rarely 5). Pe- 
duncles axillary 4, EUGENIA. 
Tribes 3. BARRINGTONIE®. Fruit berried or dry, valveless. Leaves 
without pellucid dots. 
Petals 4. Stamens in many rows, connate at base . 5, BARRINGTONIA. 
Tripe 1. LEPTOSPERMER. 
1. METROSIDEROS, R. Br. 
Calyx-tube adhering to the ovary, not angular ; limb 5-cleft. 
Stamens 20-30, free, very long, exserted. Style filiform. 
Capsules 2-3-celled; cells many-seeded. Seeds wingless.— 
Fl. Cap. ii. p. 521. ; 
Trees or shrubs.— MV. angustifolia, Sm., our only species, is common by 
riversides in many parts of the colony. Its leaves are linear-lanceolate ; 
peduncles axillary, umbellate. Flowers yellowish. 
Trine 2. Myrten. 
2. SYZYGIUM, Gertn. 
Calyx-tube obovate ; limb nearly entire or repandly-lobed. 
Petals 4—5, roundish, joined into a cap (or calyptra) and falling 
off either in that state from the calyx, or immediately after 
expansion. Stamens numerous, distinct. Ovary 2-celled, 
with few ovules in each cell; style simple. Berry 1-celled, 
1- or few-seeded. Seed globose; cotyledons large, fleshy, 
nearly hemispherical ; radicle small, inserted between the co- 
tyledons below the middle, and concealed by them.— FV. Cap. 
i. p. 521. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, quite entire, glabrous.—S. cordatum, 
Hochst., our only species, is a Natal tree, 30-40 ft. high, with subsessile, 
elliptic-cordate, leathery leaves, veiny and paler beneath. Cymes terminal, 
many-flowered. 
