112 LII. MYRTACE®. 
3. ACMENA, DC. 
Calyx-tube turbinate ; limb shortly bell-shaped, either sub- 
entire or more or less deeply 5-lobed, involute in bud. Petals 
5, small, separate. Stamens numerous, distinct. Ovary 3- or 
2-celled; cells many-ovuled; style simple, long or short. 
Berry globose or oval, 1-seeded. 
Australian or Indian shrubs.—A. Gerrardi, Harv. mss., lately found in 
Zululand by Mr. Gerrard, is nearly allied to A. Zeylanica. It is arborescent, 
with ovate-oblong, acuminate, closely-veined leaves, and terminal, 3-cho- 
tomous-multifid cymes; calyx limb deeply 5-lobed; ovary 2-celled. 
4, EUGENIA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube nearly globose; limb divided down to the ovary 
into 4, rarely 5 segments. Petals 4 or rarely 5. Stamens 
numerous, distinct. Ovary 2-celled; cells many-ovuled. Berry 
nearly globose, crowned by the calyx, when ripe 1-celled, 
rarely 2-celled. Seeds 1-2, large, roundish; cotyledons very 
thick and confluent ; radicle very small— #7. Cap. i. p. 521. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, pellucid-dotted. Peduncles axillary 
or terminal, 1- or several-flowered.—About 8 species (some undescribed), 
all Eastern or from Natal. 
Tribe 3. BARRINGTONIES. 
5. BARRINGTONIA, Forst. 
Calyx-tube ovate; limb 2-3-4-parted ; lobes ovate, obtuse, 
concave, persistent. Petals 4, coriaceous, attached to the ring 
at the base of the stamens. Stamens numerous, in several 
rows ; filaments filiform, long, distinct, combined at the base 
into a short ring, all bearing anthers. Ovary 2-4-celled, 
crowned by an urceolus sheathing the base of the style ; ovules 
2—6in each cell; stylesimple. Fruit fleshy or corky, more or 
less 4-angled, crowned by the limb of the calyx, 1-celled. 
Seed solitary; embryo fleshy, not separable into cotyledons 
and radicle, formed of 2 concentric, combined layers.— FV. 
Cap. i. p. 523. 
apered trees, growing near the sea.—B. racemosa, Roxb., occurs near 
atal. 
Orver LIT]. MELASTOMACEZA. 
Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx-tube enclosing the ovary, 
either quite adnate to it, or attached by its ribs or angles, 
leaving interspaces, or rarely quite free ; limb with valvate or 
imbricate estivation. Petals on the summit of the calyx-tube, 
as many as its lobes, imbricate in bud. Stamens inserted with 
