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into a ili'c'uluous rap. StamtMis usually numerous, inserted on the margin 

 or within the marj^iin of the disk, in one or several rows; filaments 

 distinct or connate below, or in bundles opi)osite the petals ; anthers 2- 

 celliMl, usually dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary inferior or ^-iuferior, 

 1-celled, with 1 or more ovules, or more commonly i?-many-celled with 

 many ovules; style simple; stigma small, capitate or pehate. Fruit 

 usually crowned with the calyx-limb, either 1 -celled and 1-seeded by 

 arrest, or 2-many-celled with loculicidal dehiscence, or baccate and 

 indehiscent with the cells many-seeded or 1-seeded by arrest. Seeds 

 angular, cyliudric or compressed ; testa hard or membranous, sometimes 

 winged ; albumen ; embryo straight, curved or spirally twisted ; 

 cotyledons short and obtuse, sometimes coiiibined into a mass with the 

 radicle, very rarely leafy ; radicle often thick. — Distrib. Tropical and 

 subtropical regions of both hemispheres ; genera 76 ; species upwards 

 of 1800. 



Leaves opposite, glaiul-dotted 1. Ei'fjE.NrA. 



Leaves allernate. not gland-dotted. 



Fruit angular, fibrous, 1-seeded 2. BARRixfiTfixiA. 



Fruit ovoid or globular, fleshy, many-seeded 3. Cakeya. 



1. EUGENIA, Linn. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, penninerved, gland- 

 dotted, exstipulate. Flowers in terminal or axillary paniculate cymes, 

 or solitary in the axils of the leaves or of scales below the leaves, often 

 on suppressed branclilets, appearing to be fasciculate or racemose ; bracts 

 usually small and deciduous. Calyx-tube globose, ovoid, turbinate, or 

 elongate, not or more or less produced above the ovary ; segments 

 of the limb 4 (rarely 5), or the limb subtruncate. Petals 4 (rarely 

 5 or more or 0), free and spreading, or more or less connate into a 

 calyptra which falls off on the expansion of the flower. Stamens o) , 

 in many rows, distinct or shghtly combined into 4 bundles ; filaments 

 filiform ; anthers small, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 

 inferior, 2- (rarely 3-) celled ; ovules many in each cell; style filiform ; 

 stigma small. Fruit usually a juicy berry (rarely dry), crowned 

 with the remains of the calyx. Seeds few, globose or ellipsoid; 

 albumen or very scanty ; embryo thick, fleshy ; radicle short ; 

 cotyledons thick, more or less connate or distinct. — Distrib. Tropical 

 Asia and America, a few in Tropical Africa and Australia ; species 

 about 650. 



The name " Eugenia" was first given to this genus by P. Antonio Mielieli (Nov. PI. 

 Gen. [1720] p. 22(i, t. 108) in honor of Prince Eugene of Savoy. Tbe plant from 

 which he e.^tablished the genus was E. Michelii, Lamk., a native of S. America, and a 

 very early introduction into India. 



Flowers in cymes. 



Petals large, fi-eo ; calyx with large staminal disk; fruit 

 exceeding J in. in diam. 



Calyx-tube liemisplieric ; stamens jellowisli-white 1. E. hrmispherica. 



Calyx-tube long-cylindric ; stamens crimson 2. E. lata. 



Petals small, usually calyptrate ; staminal disk absent; fruit 

 less than | in. in diam. (except E. lanceo/a/a). 

 Petals usually 12 3. E. lanceolata. 



