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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



Eugenia {Caryophyllus) aromatica. 



imperfectly known, range themselves doubtfully near Eugenia^ from 



wliicli perhaps they will not all be definitively separated. The first 



of these genera is American, likewise the second, remarkable for its 



stamens being inserted in 



numerous series on the re- 



ceptacular tube. In the 



third (which has been 



doubtfully referred to the 



preceding), has been placed 



a Brazilian species and also 



a species from l^ew Cale- 



Fig. 289. Long. sect, of fruit. 



Fig- 288. Floriferous branch. 



donia, the calyx of which is somewhat different as regards alter- 

 native prefloration. 



II. LEPTOSPERM SERIES. 



In the genus Leptospermum ^ (fig. 290-293), which has given its 

 name to quite a group of Myrtacece with dry fruit,^ the flowers are 



Acicali/ptus has ovarian cells (complete or in- 

 complete) containing numerous anatropous 

 ovules, arranged on vertical placentae ; and 

 Piliocalyx, orthotropous and descending ovules, 

 inserted in each cell on a placenta nearly apical. 

 1 FoRST. Char. Gen. 71, t. 36.— J. Gen. 323.— 

 G^RTN. Fmct. i. 174, t. 35 (part). — Laaik. Diet. 

 iii. 465 ; Suppl. iii. 336; III. t. 423.— DC. Prodr. 

 iii. 226 (part).— Spach, Suit, d Buffon, iv. 141, 



— Endl. Gen. n. 6309.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 

 367.— B. H. Gen. 703, n. 1%.— Fabricia G^rtn. 

 Fruct. i. 175, t. 35.— Endl. Gen. n. 6310.— 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 464. — Pericalymna Endl. Gen. 

 n. 6307.— ScHAUER, PI. Preiss. i. l2(i.—Eoma- 

 lospermum Schau. Linncea, xvii. 242. — Glaphy- 

 rm Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 128. — Macklottia 

 KoRTH. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. 196. 

 2 Myrtaceae-xerocarpesB (Schauer). 



