354 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



ledons of rather large embryo contortuplicate. — Trees or shrubs; 

 leaves opposite ; flowers^ cymose, few or oftener densely compound- 

 cymose ; bracteoles few, caducous or more rarely rather large folia- 

 ceous, persistent. (Trop. and suhtrop, America,^) 



6. Rhodamnia Jack.^ — Flowers of Myrtus, 4-merous; germen 1- 

 locular. Ovules co , inserted on 2 parietal placentae. Fruit baccate, 

 crowned with calyx. Seeds go , often few ; cotyledons of hippocre- 

 piform embryo short. Other characters of Myrtus. — Small trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves opposite ovato-lanceolate, 3 -nerved or 3-plinerved, 

 sometimes white beneath ; flowers * axillary fasciculate or more rarely 

 solitary; bracteoles 2, small, caducous, inserted at top of pedicel. 

 (Trop. south-east. Asia, trop, east, Oceania.^) 



7. Fenzlia Endl.^ — Flowers nearly of Myrtus ; receptacle ovoid, 

 not produced beyond germen. Petals and stamens of Myrtus ; 

 anthers versatile. Germen 1-2-locular; ovules in cells 2, 3, sub- 

 horizontally superposed ; style slender, apex small stigmatose. Fruit 

 subglobular or ovoid, drupaceous, sparsely fleshy, crowned with open- 

 reflexed calyx. Seeds 1, 2, enclosed singly in osseous endocarp; 

 testa thin ; embryo very long spirally rolled. — Shrubs cano-tomen- 

 tellose ; leaves opposite obtuse penninerved ; flowers "^ axillary soli- 

 tary pedunculate; bracteoles 2, linear-subulate inserted at top of 

 peduncle. (Australia,^) 



8. Feijoa Berg.^ — Flowers nearly of Myrtus ; sepals 5, imbricate. 

 Stamens go , oo -seriate ; filaments free short unequal, straight or 

 some slightly incurved or inflexed in the bud, finally by anthesis 

 elongate and far exserted, thickly subulate ; anthers ovate introrse. 

 Germen completely or incompletely 4-locular ; placentae 2-lamellate, 

 sometimes free within. Ovules oo , 2 -seriate. Other characters of 



> Generally small. ^ gpec. 5, 6. DC. Frodr. iii. 279, n. 136 {:Eu- 



2 Spec, about 350. DO. Mem. Myrtac. t. 15. — genia). — Sm. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 280 {Myrtus). 

 H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 544, 545 {Myrtus). — Bl. Bijdr. 1983 {Myrtus).— F. Muell. Fragm. 

 —Field et Gardn. Sert. Fl. t. 75.— Miq. St. i. 76 (2If?/r^Ms) .—Wight, Icon. t. 524.— Mia. Fl. 

 Surin.t 9.— A. S. H. FL Bras. Mer. ii. 1. 140 (?), Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 478.— Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 

 142-148. — GmsEB. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 234.— 277; Eook. Bond. Journ. ii. 219 {Monozor a).— 

 B-BUQ, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 9, t.lO {Gerquieria)', Bot. Mag. t. 3223 {Eugenia).— Walt. Bep. r. 

 11, t. 11, 12 {Gomidezia) ', 55, t. IS {Calyptro- 757; Ann. ii. 627 ; iv. 833. 



myrcia), 59 ; t. 19, 20 (Automyrcia) ; 150, t. 23, « Atakta, 19, t. 17, 18 ; Gen. n. 6274 {Olinieee), 



24:.— Bot. Mag. t. 5790.— Walp. Bep. ii. 173, — B. H. Oen. 715, n. 51. 

 932 ; V. 751 ; Ann. i. 314; ii. 628 ; iv. 833. 7 Moderate, pink. 



3 Mai. Misc. i. (ex Eook. Comp. to Bot. Mag. » gpec. 2. Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 278. 



i. 153).— Endl. Gen. n. 6338.— B. H. Gen. 714, 9 Linncea, xxix. 258.— B. H. Gen. 712, n. 42 



n. 50.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 468. — Monoxora Orthostemon Berg, Linncrn, xxvii. 440 ; Mart 



Wight, III. ii. 12, t. 97*, fig. 5. Fl. Bras. My)t. 467, t. 7, fig. 158, t. 54 (not R 



■* Generally small. Bii.). * 



