McesaJ] LXXXVIII. MYRSINE^G. (C. B. Clarke.) 507 



ORDER LXXXVIII. MYRSINE2E. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, undivided, generally gland-dotted ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamo-dicecious. Calyx 

 inferior (in Maw more or less adnate to the ovary) ; limb 4-6- (usually 5-) 

 lobed, persistent, often somewhat enlarged on the fruit. Corolla-tube short 

 or ; segments 3-7 (usually 5), contorted or imbricate (rarely valvate). 

 Stamens 3-7, opposite the corolla-lobes, free or adnate to the tube, in Reptonia 

 alternating with staminodes ; anthers usually oblong, acute, dehiscence longi- 

 tudinal, very rarely by terminal pores ; free or united by their margins. Ovary 

 globose or oblong, free (in Meesa semi-inferior), 1-celled, narrowed into the 

 style ; style filiform or columnar, stigma simple rarely shortly lobed ; ovules 

 few or many, inserted on a free central placenta. Fruit commonly small, 

 globose (in JEgiceras linear, acute), often sub-baccate and coloured, 1- (or 

 several-) seeded, indehiscent (except in jEgiceras). Seeds mostly globose, 

 excavate at the base, albumen pitted or ruminate ; embryo transverse. Species 

 500 ; all Tropical or Subtropical. 



TRIBE I. BXaeseaa. Calyx nearly enclosing the many-seeded berry. 



Calyx 2-bracteolate. Flowers racemed 1. M.ESA. 



TRIBE II. Eumyrsineoe. Calyx free. Staminodes 0. Fruit 1-seeded. 



* Corolla-lobes imbricate or induplicate-valvate (rarely contorted} in bud. 



Flowers in axillary fascicles. Corolla imbricate 2. MTRSINB. 



Flowers racemed or panicled. Corolla imbricate or contorted . 3. EMBELIA. 

 Flowers spicate-paniculate. Corolla-segments induplicate-valvate 4. LABISIA. 



* Corolla-lobes contorted in the bud (see also 3. Embelid). 

 + Anthers free. 



Corolla-segments twisted to the right ; calyx glabrous ... 5. AEDISIA. 

 Corolla-segments twisted to the right; calyx pubescent . . . 6. PIMELANDKA. 

 Corolla- segments twisted to the left 7- ANTISTIJOPHB. 



tf Anthers united. 



Corolla middle-sized, segments acute 8. HTMENANDRA. 



Corolla very small, segments emarginate ........ 9. AMBLYANTHUS. 



Anomalous genus with long Jttaments, and septate anthers. 

 Fruit cylindric, curved, acute 10. JEoicaRAS. 



TRIBE III. Theophrasteae. Calyx free. Staminodes 5. Fruit 1-2- 



seeded. 



Flowers small, in axillary fascicles . 11. REPTONIA. 



1. 1VIJESA, Forsk. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire or serrate. Racemes axillary or terminal ; 

 pedicels bracteate at the base. Flowers small, 2-bracteolate, 1-2-sexual, 4-5- 

 merous. Calyx half-inferior or nearly free, in fruit ^-adnate; teeth small, 

 persistent. Corolla gamopetalous, campanulate ; lobes round, much imbricate, 

 sometimes unequal. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; 

 anthers ellipsoid; staminodes 0. Ovary partially adnate to the calyx j style 



