MYETACEM. ' 353 



from the placenta. Fruit baccate or subdrupaceous, divided into oo 

 1-spermous (sometimes pyreniform) cellules ; seeds in cells solitary, 

 subhorizontal suborbicular or reniform ; embryo, etc., of Myrtus, — 

 Trees or shrubs, yillose or tomentose ; leaves opposite, pemiinerved 

 or 3-plinerved ; flowers^ axillary, solitary or 2, 3-nate, sometimes co , 

 in rather long cymiferous raceme.^ {Trojp. south, and east. Asia^ 

 Indian Arcliip.^) 



3. Decaspermum Forst.* — Flowers nearly ofMyrtus, hermaphro- 

 dite or polygamous, 4-5-merous ; cells 4, 5, divided into 2 1- or 

 pauciovulate cellules by spurious vertical centripetal septa. Fruit 

 baccate, crowned with calyx, rad lately septate ; cellules 1-spermous ; 

 seeds, etc., of Myrtus. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite penni- 

 nerved ; flowers axillary spuriously ramose ; cymes sometimes in 

 ramose foliate raceme.^ (Trop. Asia and Oceania.^) 



4. Pimenta Lindl.^ — Flowers nearly of Myrtus, 4-5-merous; 

 germen 2, 3-celled. Ovules in cells few (2-4) or solitary, inserted 

 under apex descending ; micropyle superior lateral. Berry, etc., of 

 Mijrtus'j embryo spirally involute, 1-2 -cyclical. — Highly fragrant 

 trees ; leaves opposite coriaceous ; flowers ^ in very compound ramose 

 and many-flowered cymes axillary to uppermost leaves. {Trop. 

 America.^) 



5. Myrcia DC.^® — Flowers of Pimenta (or Myrtus), 5-merous or 

 more rarely 3, 4-merous ; cells of germen 2, 3 (or more rarely 4, 5), 

 2-ovulate. Ovules collaterally ascending. Fruit baccate, oftencr 

 crowned with persistent calyx and other characters of Myrtus', coty- 



^ Rather large, showy, oftener pink. {Nelitris). — Seem. FL Vit. 80 {Nelitrin). — Miq. 



- A genus scarcely distinct from Myrtus, with Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 470 {Nelitris). — Benth. Fl. 



cells of germen transversely and vertically Austral, iii. 279 (Nelitris). — Walp. Ann. ii. 



locellate. 623; iv. 830 (Nelitris). 



3 Spec. 4, 5. Wight, Icon. t. 522. — Miq. Fl. 7 Collect, sub n. 19. — Berg, Lhzneea, xxvii. 



Ind.-Bat. I. p, i. 477. — F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 86, 422.— B. H. Gen. 717, n. 56. — Amomis Berg, 



t. 13 (Myrtus).— jyo^, Gen. Syst. ii. 829 (Neli- loc. cit. 416. 



«m).— Bexth. Fl. Hongk. 120; Fl. Austral, iii. « Small; often in 3-parous cymes. 



272.— Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 250 (Myrtus). 9 Spec. 2. L. Spec. 676 (Myrs). — Sw. Obs. 



* Char. Gen. 73, t. 37 (1772).— J. Gen. 324, 202 (Myrtus) ; Fl. Ind. Oce. ii. 909 (Myrtus).— 



453.— Pom. Suppl. ii. ^5^.— Nelitris G^kt.v. DC. Prodr. iii. 243, n. 3 (Myrcia), 285, n. 181 



Pruct. i. 134, t. 27 (1788).— DC. Prodr. iii. 231. (Eugenia).— Bot. Mag. t. 1236, 3153. 



— Endl. Gen. n. 6313.— B. H. Gen. 716, n. 52. ^o Diet. CL d'Hist. Nat. xi. ; Prodr. iii. 242.— 



—Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 469. Endl. Gen. n. 6317.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 



^ The name Forsterianum is certainly incor- 163.— B. H. Gen. 716, n. 53. — Cerquieria Berg, 



rect (since the number of seeds is very diflferent), linncea, xxvii. 5. — Gomidezia Berg, op.cit.Q', 



but having priority and in the absence of proof xxix. 207. — Calyptromyrcia Berg, Zi«W(C«;, xxvii. 



it must be retained. M.— Aulomyrcia Berg, o/?. d^. 35 ; xxix. 216; 



' Spec. 4, 5. Wight, Icon. i. 521 (Nelitris). xxx. 654. — Calycanipe Berg, op. cit. xxvii. 129. 

 —A. Gray, Unit. St. Fxpl. Exp. Bot. i. 547, t. 60 



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