Bceckea.'] LIX. MYRTACE^E. (J. F. Duthie.) 463 



B. Fruit fleshy. 



TRIBE II. Myrteae. Ovary 2- or more-celled (except Rhodamnid). 

 Fruit a berry or drupe. 



Limb of calyx closed in bud with the lobes subimbricate, ra- 

 ther deeply valvately divided when in flower *4. PSIDIUM. 



Limb of calyx 4-5-lobed or -partite in bud, not becoming 

 further divided when in flower. 



Ovary 1 -celled with 2 parietal placentas. Leaves 3- 



nerved 5. EHODAMNIA. 



Ovary 1-3-celled with double rows of ovules in each 

 cell separated by spurious partitions. Leaves some- 

 times 3-nerved 6. KHODOMYBTUS. 



Ovary 5- rarely 4-celled with 2-6 ovules in each cell. 

 Embryo long and narrow, curved, circular, or spiral, 



with small cotyledons . . . . 7. DECASPEBMTJM. 



Ovary 2-3-celled with several ovules in each cell and 

 without spurious partitions. Embryo thick and 

 fleshy, not divisible, or with 2 thick fleshy cotyle- 

 dons and a short radicle 8. EUGENIA. 



TRIBE III. Lecythideae (Sub-tribe Barringtonieee). Ovary 2- or more- 

 celled. Fruit indehiscent, hard and fibrous or fleshy. Leaves alternate, not 

 gland-dotted. 



Stamens all perfect. Fruit angular, fibrous, 1 -seeded . . 9. BABBINGTONIA. 

 Outer or inner stamens or both without anthers. Fruit 



ovoid or globular, fleshy, many-seeded 10. CABEYA. 



I. BJECXLZSA, Linn. 



Glabrous heath-like shrubs. Leaves opposite, narrow, pointed, with many 

 pellucid glands. Flowers normally 5-merous, axillary, peduncled, with 2 minute 

 bracts at their base. Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes 5, membranous, persistent. 

 Petals 5, suborbicular. Stamens 10 or fewer, shorter than the petals. Ovary 

 inferior or ^-inferior, 2-3-celled, with several ovules in each cell. Capsule 

 bursting from above loculicidally. Seeds angular ; embryo straight with short 

 cotyledons. DISTRIB. Species about 50, the greater number Australian, a few 

 in New Caledonia, one only extending into India. 



1. B. frutescens, Linn. ; leaves linear pointed ascending or spreading, 

 flowers axillary shortly peduncled, calyx-lobes roundish petaloid, stamens 10 

 rarely 8, ovary 3-celled. DC. Prodr. iii. 229; Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 

 260; Sot. Mag. t. 2802; Slume Mus. Sot. i. 69; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. 

 i. 406 ; Senth. Fl. Hongk. 118. B. Oumingiana, Schauer in Walp. Rep. ii. 920. 

 B. chinensis, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 157, t. 31. Osbeck Itin. 231, t. 1. 



Eastern Peninsula ; MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay, Cuming, Lobb, Low. DISTBIB. 

 Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, S. China. 



A slender shrub with rod-like branches. Leaves small, 5 in. long, flat or some- 

 what channelled above, convex beneath. Peduncles usually solitary and short with 

 2 minute bracts at the base. Flowers small, white, 5-merous, occasionally 4-merous. 

 Calyx-tube campanulate. 



