Myrtacee. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 71 
leaf, peduncles, and calyx covered with a rusty-brown tomentum. Petioles 2-3 lines long. Leaves (1 inch) broadly 
elliptical, ovate or rounded, blunt or sharp, with few veins, the surface bullate or bladdery between the veins, rarely 
even, bright green above, reddish below. Flowers white, on peduncles 1 inch long, $ an inch in diameter. Berries 
deep red-purple or black, sweetish, much eaten by birds, as large as a black currant, two-celled, with several reni- 
form hard seeds in each cell.—The leaves are occasionally quite even on the surface. 
2. Myrtus pedunculata, Hook. fil. ; frutex glaberrimus, ramis divaricatis, ramulis 4-gonis, foliis parvis 
breve petiolatis oblongis obovatisve punctatis subtus pallidis, pedicellis axillaribus 1-floris, floribus 5-meris, 
bacca 2-loculari polysperma. Je. Plant. t. 629. 
Haz. Northern and Middle Islands. East coast and interior, Colenso, Sinclair. Nelson, Bidwill. 
A straggling shrub, 10-12 feet high, quite glabrous. Branches slender, four-angled; bark white. Leaves (4-3 
inch) shortly petiolate, variable in size and shape, linear-oblong or obovate, blunt, plane. Peduncles very variable in 
length, shorter or longer than the leaves, solitary, one-flowered. Flowers small, 4 inch diameter, white. Calyx-lobes 
and petals five. Berry size of a ved currant, orange-yellow, two-celled, with several pale compressed shining seeds. 
3. Myrtus obcordata, Hook. fil. ; frutex ramosus, ramis divaricatis ramulis petiolis pedunculis calycibus- 
que sericeis, foliis (parvis) obcordatis in petiolum brevem angustatis, pedunculis 1-floris, floribus 4-meris, 
bacca 2-loculari polysperma. Eugenia obcordata, Raoul, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. v. 2. p. 123. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. East coast, and mountains of the interior, Colenso. Akaroa, Raoul. 
A shrub, very similar to M. pedunculata in respect of size and habit, but the leaves (which vary from four lines 
to one inch long) are always truly obcordate ; the branches, petioles, peduncles, and calyx are pubescent; the flowers 
have four petals and four calyx-lobes, and the berries M. Raoul states to be of a violet-colour. 
Gen. IV. EUGENLA, Mich. 
Omnia Myrti, sed semina pauca, magna, angulata; embryone crassa; radicula cotyledonibusque con- 
fluentibus. 
Trees, or large shrubs, with opposite leaves and peduncled flowers, exactly like Myrti, from which they only 
differ in the structure of the berry and seed  Calya tube globose; limb four- to five-lobed. Petals four or five. 
Stamens very numerous. Ovary two- to three-celled ; ovules numerous. Berry globose, one- to two-celled, with a 
few large seeds, which have a thick embryo, presenting no conspicuous radicle or cotyledons.—This genus abounds 
in the Tropics of the West Indies and South America; many species are found in India and the Malay Islands, 
a very few in Australia. They do not advance so far south as Myrtus, attaining their highest latitude in the 
Old World in New Zealand, and in the New in South Chili. (Named in honour of Prince Eugene of Savoy, a 
patron of botany.) 
1. Eugenia Maire, A. Cunn.; arbor erecta, tota glaberrima, ramulis angulatis, foliis (1-13 une.) pe- 
tiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis ellipticisve acuminatis siccis crispatis, paniculis cymosis trichotome divaricatim 
ramosis terminalibus multifloris, pedicellis elongatis superne incrassatis, calyce late obconico obscure 5- 
lobo, petalis parvis, bacca urceolari oligosperma. 4. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island, often in swamps. Bay of Islands, Cunningham, etc. Fl. April. Nat. name, 
* Maire tawake,” Cunn. 
A tree 30-50 feet high, quite smooth in all parts. Bark pale. Leaves (là inch) petiolate, elliptical, acumi- 
nate, crisped when dry. Flowers usually in terminal, trichotomously branched, spreading panicles, white; pedicels 
in threes, 4 inch long, gradually thickened upwards. Calyx obconic, very broad, 2 lines long, with five obscure 
lobes. Petals five, rounded, small, white, commonly falling away together before expanding. Filaments capillary, 
linch long. Fruit an urceolate berry, nearly $ inch long, crowned with the calyx-tube, containing about one 
large, and several small seeds, which are of irregular form, compressed, convex on one face and rugose on the other. 
