170. MYRTACER. (Eugenia, 
4. EUGENIA, Linn. 
Shrubs or trees, glabrous or rarely tomentose or villous. 
Leaves opposite, penniveined. Flowers solitary and axillary, or 
in terminal or lateral cymes or pwnicles. Culyx-tube globose to 
narrow-turbinate ; lobes 4, rarely 5. Petals the same number as 
the calyx-lobes. Stamens numerous, in manv series. Ovary 2- or 
rarely 3-celled; style filiform; stigma small; ovules numerous 
in each cell. Fruit a berry, rarely dry and fibrous, crowned 
by the persistent calyx-limb. Seeds solitary or few, globose or 
variously compressed ; testa membranous or cartilaginous. Em- 
bryo thick and fleshy; radicle short; cotyledons thick, more or 
less united or distinct. 
An immense genus of more than 700 species, spread over the tropical and 
subtropical regions of both hemispheres. There is little to separa e it from 
Myrtus except the thick and fleshy embryo with a short radicle. The single 
New Zealand species is endemic. 
1. EB. maire, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 564.—A small tree 20-50 ft. 
high, perfectly glabrous in all its parts; trunk 1-2ft. diam., with 
white bark; branchlets slender, 4-angled. Leaves opposite, 1—2 in. 
long, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 
acute or acuminate, rather membranous, narrowed into short 
slender petioles. Flowers 4 in. diam., sometimes almost unisexual, 
white, in terminal many-flowered corymbose panicles 14-3 in. 
broad; pedicels slender, glabrous. Calyx-tube broadly obconic; 
lobes very short, broad, deciduous. Petals orbicular, falling away 
early. - Stamens slender, 4-2 in. long. Ovary wholly adnate to the 
base of the calyx-tube, 2-celled; ovules numerous. Berry in. 
long, ovoid, red, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb, 1-celled. 
Seed solitary, large; testa hard, corlaceous.—Ruaoul, Choiw. 49; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 71; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 74; Kirk, Forest 
Fil. t. 122; Students’ Fl. 165. 
Nortu Isuanp: Swampy forests from the North Cape southwards, abund- 
ant. SourH Is~LaANnD: Queen Charlotte Sound and Pelorus Valley, J. Rut- 
land. Sea-level to 1500 ft. Maire-tawake. March-May. 
Wood hard, dense, and durable; valuable for cabinet-work, turnery, &c. 
Orper. XXIX. ONAGRARIEA. 
Herbs, rarely shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or alter- 
nate, simple, entire or toothed, exstipulate. Flowers usually 
regular; hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube often elongated, altogether 
adnate to the ovary, sometimes produced beyond it; limb of 2-5 
valvate lobes. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, inserted at the 
top of the calyx-tube, rarely wanting. Stamens as many or twice 
as many as the petals, inserted with them. Ovary inferior, usually 
2-4-celled; style simple, filiform; stigma capitate or 2—4-lobed ; 
ovules usually numerous in each cell, in 1 or 2 series, pendulous or 
