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find finother circumftance, mentioned by Gsertncr as dlfcrimlnating 

 them, the two cells in the germen oi Syzygium, does not hold good., 

 being alio to be found in Eugenia. I beg leave here to confider as 

 the true Eugenia that which Micheli firft called fo, and which ftands 

 in the latter edicions of Linnsus in three different places, being his 

 Eugenia unifiora^ Myrtus bmftliana, and Plinia pedunculata, and there 

 is no doubt of its accoiding cxa6fly m generic charafters with 

 Eugenia lambos. What really conftitutes the genus of Piinia is 

 very doubtful, Plumier's figures, and the defcriptions of other 

 authors taken from them, being a mafs of inextricable confufion ; 

 but if thefe figures mean any thing, they cannot accord with our 

 Eugenia, nor indeed do they refemble it, except in the pulpy fruit 

 being furrowed, fomewhat (but not exadlly) like that of Eugenia 

 uni/lora. I am aware however that the opinion of Linnaeus in the 

 Su/fplementum Planfarum is here againft me, as well as that of my 

 accurate friend Mr. Dryander in the Hortus Kewcnjis. If Plumier's 

 original fpecies of Plinia ihould ever be found, it will remove the 

 doubt. In the mean time, one of the few points of which we are 

 certain is, that if the common Eugenia unifiora be not a Plinia, it 

 muft conftitute the real gerrus of Eugenia, whatever the other 

 plants may be that are now arranged under that name; and if it 

 be a Plinia. Eugenia lambos is one likewife. 



9. EUCALYPTUS. LUeritier Sert. Angl t. 20. Jit. Hori. Kew. 

 V. 1. 157. Bot. of New Holl. t. 13. 



Char. Gen. Calyx fuperus, perfiftens, truncatus, ante an- 

 thefin teflus operculo integerrimo, deciduo. Corolla nulla. 

 Capjula quadrilocularis, apice dehifcens, polyfperma. 



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