2 8 o Dr. S M I T H V Botanical CharaHers of fame Plant i 



I.- Myrtus temilfolia, pedunculis axillaribus folitariis uniflons, 

 foliis linearibus mucronulatis. 



An elegant little flirub which has not yet appeared in the gar- 

 dens. The leaves are oppofite, fomewhat more than an inch iii 

 length, and about a line in breadth, flightly revolute, downy be- 

 neath. Flower- (lalks filky, ftiorter than the leaves, each bearing a 

 fmall white flower, often tinged externally with red, and not un- 

 like the common myrtle blofTom, though fcarcely half fo large. 

 The germen is very filky. Calyx nearly fmooth. Petals downy. 

 The ripe fruit I have not feen, but from an examination of the 

 germen, and every part of the flowei", I think there can be no doubt 

 •of the genus. 



2. M. trinervia, pedunculis axillaribus trifloris, foliis ovatis acu- 

 mlnatis trinerviis fubtus tomentofis. 



This is alfo a flranger to our gardens. The leaves are large and 

 handfomc, oppofite, ovate pointed, downy beneath, with three 

 IVrong nerves, as in thofe of Blakea. Flowers fmall, generally three 

 together, on fliort, hairy, forked, axillary flower-ftalks. Although 

 the teeth of the calyx, and the petals alfo, are generally but four, 

 it is a true Myrtus, and not an Eugenia, the fruit being a berry with 

 many fhining gibbous curved feeds. It has but one cell when 

 ripe, but the germen appears to be divided into two or three cells. 



S. EUGENIA Linn.—Juff. Gen. 324. 



Syzygium. Gcertn. vol. i. 166. /. 2>y f' I- 



Char. Gen. Calyx 4-fidus, fuperus. Petala 4. Bacca uiii- 

 locularls, monofperraa. 



1. Eugenia 



