TaBuLa 3016. 
EUGENIA PUSILLA, N. E. Brown. 
Myrracear. Tribus MyRTEAE. 
E. pusilla, NV. E. Brown in Kew Bull. 1912, Ra 276; Diimmer in 
Gard. Chron. 1912, vol. lii. p. 192, fig. 88; affini albane ensi, Sond., 
cui habitu simillima, sed foliis anguste tee! lanceolatis facile 
distinguenda. 
Herba perennis, 10-15 cm. alta; caules annui, fasciculati, erecti, 
graciles, 0-6-0-7 mm. crassi, elabri. Folia opposita vel alterna, 
suberecta vel leviter patula, brevissime petiolata, 2-3-5 cm. longa, 
2-3 mm. lata, anguste lineari-lanceolata, acuta, basi attenuata, 
uninervia, pellucido-punctata, marginibus revolutis, glabra. ores 
solitarii, ex axillis foliorum inferiorum e ati, omnino glabri ; pedicelli 
1-2 cm. longi, caer apice bibracteati; bracteae 2 mm gae, 
lineares, recurv epa 2 mm. longa, latissime ovata, acuta. 
Petala 5 mm. ‘one 3mm. lata, late ovata, obtusa, minute denticulata, 
breviter unguiculata. Stamina 3- 5 mm. longa, incurva. Ovarium 
breviter obconicum. 
Sourn Arrica: Transvaal; near Amsterdam, in Ermelo district, 
Forbes. 
This species belongs to a small group of which all the members are 
of very dwarf habit and produce annual stems from a perennial root- 
species of Eugenia that, until the flowers are examined, they could 
scarcely be suspected to belong to that gen E. pusilla bears the 
local name ‘lomo’ and in the Ermelo Sstrict is suspected to be 
poisonous to sheep. 
Var. are Diimmer in Gard. Chron. 1912, vol. li. p. 193 ; folia 
4-5 mm. lat 
Soutu Arrica: Natal; without precise locality, Gerrard, 1645. 
This specimen is in very youn fruit and not “ag ehis is Fes 
a more luxuriant specimen of the typical plant. —N.E 
Fic. 1, part of a leaf, showing the revolute margins; 2, a flower; 3, ovary 
and style, with two sepals and the remains of the stamens; 4, a petal; 
5, stamens. All enlarged. 
