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I. Eugenia el/iptlca^ foliis cllipticis acuminatis, floribus pani- 

 culatis, calycc repando, bacca globofa. 



A tree or fhrub of New South Wales, with round dichotomous 

 leafy branches. The leaves are oppofite, on fliort foot-ftalks, clhp- 

 tical, pointed at both ends, entire, a Uttle revokite, fmooth, with one 

 rib and many parallel fide veins. Panicles about the fummits of the 

 branches, axillary and terminal, ereft, confifting of numerous, 

 oppofite, fmooth, branched and forked flalks, without bra^ecc. 

 Flowers fmall. Calyx clavate. Its margin waved, but not toothed. 

 Petals four, white, very minute and fugacious. Stamina nume- 

 rous. Style fhort, with a fimple ftigma. Berry the fize of a large 

 pea, globular, white, crowned with the calyx, and confifting of a 

 thick pulpy coat, inverting a foHtary feed. The leaves are full of 

 refinous fpots, and the calyx abounds with a fragrant efTential oil. 



No plant in the order has given me fo much trouble, to deter- 

 mine its genus, as this. It undoubtedly belongs to the Syzygium 

 of Gsertner, tab. i-^, which is to be diftinguifhed from Eugenia only 

 by having a bacca with a fingle feed, inftead of a drupa. G-crtner 

 indeed has not told us exactly what he undcrftood by Eugenia, nor 

 has he figured any thing under that name ; but I prefume he meant 

 either the original Eugenia unlflora of Micheh, or the E. lambos. I 

 have examined ripe fruits of both thefe, and the young germen of 

 the former of them, which has two cells, with the rudiments of a 

 feed in each. When the fruit is ripe, it in both fpecies confifts of 

 one large feed, clothed with a very thin fliell or Ikin, without any 

 fiffure or feam, and the whole enveloped in a firm flelliy pulp. In 

 my Eugenia ell/ptica jud defcribed, the pulp is immediately attached 

 to the feed itfelf, as Gaertner defcribes his Syzygium. I think how- 

 ever with JufTieu, that the two genera may be fafely united ; for we 



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