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ANAMOMIS. 
FLowers perfect; calyx usually 4-lobed, the lobes imbricated in estivation ; petals 
usually 4, imbricated in estivation ; stamens indefinite, in many ranks; ovary inferior, 
2 to 4-celled ; ovules numerous in each cell. Fruit baccate, 1 or rarely 2-seeded. 
Leaves opposite, penniveined, chartaceous or coriaceous, persistent, destitute of stipules. 
Anamomis, Grisebach, F/. Brit. W. Ind. 240 (1864). Myrtus, Bentham & Hooker, Gen. i. 714 (in part) (1865). — 
Baillon, Hist. Pl. vi. 349 (in part). 
Aromatic trees, with terete branchlets. Leaves opposite, ovate or elliptical, petiolate, chartaceous 
or coriaceous, penniveined, punctate, destitute of stipules, persistent. Flowers in pedunculate, usually 
three, sometimes five to seven, or occasionally one-flowered cymes. Peduncles axillary, dichotomously 
branched or rarely simple, furnished immediately below the apex of each division with two lanceolate 
acute deciduous bractlets. Calyx-tube ovoid, not produced above the ovary, the limb four or rarely 
five-lobed, the lobes ovate, acute, persistent. Petals four or occasionally five, inserted on the thickened 
margin of the conspicuous disk, ovate, acute, glandular-punctate, spreading after anthesis. Stamens 
indefinite, inserted with the petals on the margin of the disk; filaments filiform, inflexed in the bud ; 
anthers oblong, attached on the back below the middle, versatile, introrse, two-celled, the cells opening 
longitudinally. Ovary two to four-celled; style simple, filiform, crowned with the minute capitate 
stigma; ovules numerous in each cell, attached irregularly to a central placenta, semianatropous; raphe 
ventral; micropyle superior. Fruit baccate, subglobose or more or less obliquely oblong, aromatic, 
crowned with the persistent calyx-limb, one or sometimes two-seeded. Seed reniform, exalbuminous ; 
testa membranaceous. Embryo aromatic, filling the cavity of the seed; cotyledons distinct, obovate, 
thick and fleshy, flat and rounded at the apex, or more or less pointed, incurved and variously 
infolded at the apex; radicle basilar, terete, accumbent, from one quarter to one third the length of 
the cotyledons. 
Anamomis is West Indian, with four or five species,’ one of which reaches the shores and islands 
of southern Florida. Little is known with regard to the economic value of the species that are not 
found in Florida. Anamomis esculenta,’ an inhabitant of Hayti, is said to produce edible fruit. 
The name of the genus, from dvé and duauic, alludes to its aromatic properties. 
1 Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 240; Cat. Pl. Cub. 90. 3 Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 240 (1864). 
Eugenia esculenta, Berg, Linnea, xxvii. 273 (1854). 
