MYRTACE^E 



775 



flowered and not longer than the leaves, more often longer than the leaves, dichotomously 

 branched and 3-flowered, with 1 flower at the end of the principal division in the fork of its 



branches, or occasionally 5-7-flowered by the development of peduncles from the axils of 

 the bracts of the secondary divisions of the inflorescence, each branch of the inflorescence 

 furnished immediately beneath the flower with 2 lanceolate acute bractlets nearly as 

 long as the calyx-tube; calyx hoary-tomentose, the lobes ovate, rounded at apex and much 

 shorter than the ovate acute glandular-punctate white petals. Fruit ripening in Florida 

 in August, reddish brown, \ r long, obliquely oblong, obovate or subglobose, roughened 

 by minute glands; flesh thin, rather dry and aromatic; seeds reniform, light brown, 

 exceedingly fragrant. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a trunk 6'-8' in diameter, and slender terete branchlets light 

 red and coated with pale silky hairs when they first appear, becoming glabrous in their 

 second year and covered with light or dark brown bark separating into small thin scales; or 

 often a shrub, with numerous slender stems. Bark of the trunk iV~s' thick, with a smooth 

 light red or red-brown surface separating into minute thin scales. Wood very heavy, hard, 

 close-grained, light brown or red, with thick yellow sapwood of 40-50 layers of annual 

 growth. 



Distribution. Florida, rocky woods, Mosquito Inlet to Cape Canaveral on the east 

 coast, and from the banks of the Caloosahatchee River to the shores of Cape Romano on 

 the west coast, on Key West, and in the neighborhood of Bay Biscayne, Dade County; 

 on the Bahama Islands and on several of the Antilles. 



6. Eugenia Simpsonii Sarg. 

 Anamomis Simpsonii Small. 



Leaves oblong, rounded and abruptly short-pointed or occasionally emarginate at apex, 

 cuneate at base, or broad-elliptic, silky pubescent and ciliate on the margins when they un- 

 fold, soon glabrous, and at maturity coriaceous, dark yellow-green and lustrous on the upper 

 surface, paler and dull on the lower surface, \\'-% long and '-!' wide, with a prominent 

 midrib impressed on the upper side and obscure spreading primary veins united before 

 reaching the thickened re volute entire margins of the leaf; petioles covered at first with 

 snowy white tomentum, soon glabrous, slender, \'-\' in length. Flowers fragrant, about 

 \' in diameter, sessile in lateral 3-15-flowered cymes on slender finely appressed-pubescent 

 peduncles longer or shorter than the subtending leaves, their bractlets acuminate and \' 

 long; calyx-tube short-obconic, thickly covered with silky white hairs, the lobes rounded at 

 apex, green, punctate, two of them orbicular-reniform, the others orbicular-ovate, shorter 



