154 MYRTACE.E. (JVIYKTLE FAMILY.) 



I. T. Catappa, L. Leaves short-petioled, softly pubescent when young, 

 at length smoothish, obovate, wedge-shaped but truncated or slightly cordate 

 at the base, with a depressed gland on each side of the midrib near the 

 base ; spikes very slender, shorter than the leaves, the upper flowers sterile ; 

 drupe ovate, acute, compressed, with the margins somewhat winged. South 

 Florida. A large tree. Leaves 4' - 8' long. Flowers minute, pale green. 



ORDER 56. MYRTACE^E. (MYRTLE FAMILY.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, dotted and com- 

 monly with an intra-marginal vein. Stipules none. Calyx 4-6- 

 cleft, valvate in the bud, the tube adherent to the compound ovary. 

 Petals 4-6, inserted with the numerous stamens on the throat of the 

 calyx, sometimes wanting. Filaments long, free, or variously com- 

 bined. Anthers introrse, roundish, longitudinally dehiscent. Style 

 solitary. Seeds without albumen, fixed to a central placenta. 



1. EUGENIA, Micheli. ALLSPICE. 



Calyx-tube roundish, the limb 4-cleft. Petals 4. Stamens distinct. Ovary 

 2 - 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell. Fruit baccate, roundish, 1-2- 

 cllc 1, 1 - 2-seeded. Cotyledons thick and united. Radicle very short. 

 Flowers white, axillary, solitary, cymose, or clustered, 2-bracted. 



* Floit'cra in axillary cymes. 



1. E. dichotoma, DC. Leaves oblong-obovate, obtuse or emarginate, 

 rigid, and, like the branches, roughened with appressed hairs, at length 

 smoothish, the margins revolute ; peduncles twice as long as the leaves, 3-7- 

 flowered, the central flowers sessile; calyx-tube obconical, 2-bracted, downy 

 and hoary, the lobes roundish, spreading ; petals orbicular, ciliate ; stamens 

 numerous. South Florida. A small tree. Leaves 1' long. Branches 

 compressed. 



* * Flowers solitary or umbellate. 



2. E. procera, Poir. Smooth ; leaves ovate, tapering but obtuse at the 

 apex, abruptly contracted at the base into a short petiole ; peduncles solitary 

 or 2-4 together, filiform, not half the length of the leaves, 1-flowered ; calyx 

 tube hemispherical; petals orbicular, ciliate; berry globose, 1-seeded. South 

 Florida. May. -- A small tree. Leaves ll'- 2' long. Flowers conspicuous, 

 white and fragrant. Berry as large as a grain of pepper. 



3. E. Garberi, Sargent. Brnnchlets slender, terete ; leaves coriaceous 

 shining, long attenuate, obtuse, finely punctate-glandular beneath, the thick 

 margins revolute; umbels peduncled, the slender pedicels 1-flowered; berry 

 globose, 1-seeded, scarlet. Keys of South Florida. A tree 50 -60 high, 

 with red bark and very hard wood, fruiting in March and April. 



4. E. Ion gipes, Berg. Smooth; branchlets very slender; leaves (V or 

 less long) oblong-oval or obovate, short-petioled, obtuse ; flowers large, single, 

 or by pairs, lateral, or at the base of the branchlets, on long (!'- 1-J') bibrac- 



