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XXV. Botanical Char adders of Jomc Plants of the Natural Order of 

 Ah' RTi. By James Edivard Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.LS. 



Read OBober /^, 1796. 



'T'HE natural order of Myrti, Jujf, Gen. 322, is compofed of a 

 -*'- number of very elegant fhrubs and trees, the genera of which 

 have not been clearly defined ; nor, indeed, do the limits of this 

 f.miily feem well underftood by the bell writer on natural orders, 

 M. de Juffieu. 



Thefe plants agree in having an arborefcent ftem, the wood of 

 which is generally hard, and of flow growth. Their leaves are 

 Ample, for the mofl: part entire, and evergreen ; often dotted with 

 clear refinous fpots, and almofl; always more or lefs aromatic, fome- 

 times aftringent. Calyx monophyllous, urceolate, or tubular, with, 

 fcveral, generally five, teeth, the body of the calyx being perma- 

 nent, and inverting the fruit (in fome inftances pulpy), though the 

 teeth are very frequently deciduous. Petals equal in number to the 

 teeth of the calyx, alternate with them, and inferted into the rim 

 jLift within them. Stamina inferted into the fame rim withia 

 the petals, numerous, rarely only equal to the petals in number, 

 or about twice as many ; for the mofl part very long, but, in 

 fome inftanccs, fhorter than the corolla. Germen in the bottom of 

 the calyx, fimple. Style one. Stigma undivided. Fruit either a 



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