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:3. ACMENA, DC. 



Calyx-tube turbinate ; limb shortly bell-shaped, either sub- 

 entire" or more or less deeply 5-lobed, involute in bud. Petals 

 5, small, separate. Stamens numerous, distinct. Ovary 3- or 

 2-celled ; cells many-ovuled ; style simple, long or short. 

 Berry globose or oval, 1-seeded. 



Australian or Indian sbrubs. — A. Gerrardi, Harv. mss., lately found in 

 Zululand by Mr. Gerrard, is nearly allied to A . Zeylanica. It is arborescent, 

 with ovate-oblong, acuminate, closely-veined leaves, and terminal, 3-cho- 

 tomous-multiiid cymes ; calyx limb deeply 5-lobed ; ovary 2-celled. 



4. EUGENIA, Linn. 



Calyx-tube nearly globose ; limb divided down to the ovary 

 into 4, rarely 5 segments. Petals 4 or rarely 5. Stamens 

 numerous, distinct. Ovary 2-eelled ; cells many-ovuled. Berry 

 nearly globose, crowned by the calyx, w^hen ripe 1-celled, 

 rarely 2-celled. Seeds 1-2, large, roundish ; cotyledons very 

 thick and confluent ; radicle very small. — Fl. Cap. \\. p. 521. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, pellucid-dotted. Peduncles axillary 

 or terminal, 1- or several-flowered. — About 8 species (some undescribed), 

 all Eastern or from Natal. 



Tribe 3. BAERiNGTOxiEiE. 



5. BARRINGTONIA, Porst. 



Calyx-tube ovate ; limb 2-3-4-parted ; lobes ovate, obtuse, 

 concave, persistent. Petals 4, coriaceous, attached to the ring 

 at the base of the stamens. Stamens numerous, in several 

 rows ; filaments filiform, long, distinct, combined at the base 

 into a short ring, all bearing anthers. Ovary 2-4-celled, 

 cro^^^led by an urceolus sheathing the base of the style ; ovules 

 2-6 in each cell ; style simple. Pruit fleshy or corky, more or 

 less 4-angled, cro^vned by the limb of the calyx, 1-celled. 

 Seed solitary ; embryo fleshy, not separable into cotyledons 

 and radicle, formed of 2 concentric, combined layers. — Fl. 

 Cap. ii. p. 523. 



Tropical trees, growing near the sea. — B. racemosa, Koxb., occurs near 

 Natal. 



Order LIIL MELASTOMACE^. 



Plowers bisexual, regular. Calyx-tube enclosing the ovary, 

 either quite adnate to it, or attached by its ribs or angles, 

 leaving interspaces, or rarely quite free ; limb with valvate or 

 imbricate aestivation. Petals on the summit of the calyx-tube, 

 as many as its lobes, imbricate in bud. Stamens inserted with 



