MYRTACE^. 357 



plicate in bud, scarcely capitellate at stigmatose apex. Ovules in 

 cells 00 , peltately inserted in rays on orbicular 2-lamellate placenta. 

 Berry ovoid, crowned with calyx; seeds 1, 2, curved or cochleate ; 

 embryo conformably curved ; radicle longer than indistinct cotyledons. 

 — A small tree or shrub; leaves opposite, penninerved nitid; sti- 

 pules (?) setaceous very small, caducous ; flowers in 2-parous cymes 

 springing from the wood ; lateral pedicellate. (Subtrop, JS. America.^) 



14. Eugenia Micheli.^ — Flowers of Myrtus ; receptacle globose, 

 ovoid, obconical, turbinate or tubular (Garyophyllus^), long attenuate 

 at base ( Clavimyrtus,* Cuphceanthus ^), externally either glabrous, or 

 angular or thickly alate {Pteromyrtus^), Sepals 5, or oftener 4, 

 imbricate or more or less widely foliaceous (Phyllocalyx'^), rarely 

 very short dentiform. Petals 4, 5, or very rarely 6-oo (or 0), some- 

 times more or less connate in a hood {Syzygium ^), sometimes thick 

 coriaceous, deciduous. Stamens oo (of Myrtiis), or free, or obscurely 

 4-5-adelphous in bud (Caryophyllus) ; anthers often versatile; cells 

 parallel or rarely divaricate. Germen inferior, 2- or very rarely 3- 

 locular ; style slender, scarcely or not at all incrassate at stigmatose 

 apex. Ovules in cells oo , rarely 2-4 {Myrciaria ^). Fruit baccate 

 (sometimes (?) drupaceous), rarely coriaceous or corticate. Seeds 

 generally 1, or few, variously inserted, globose, ovoid or variously 

 compressed and angular ; cotyledons of fleshy exalbuminous (some- 



^ Spec. 1. M. atropurpwetmi ScKOTT. — Mart. Fruct. i. t. 33. — DC. Prodr. iii. 261. — Spach, 



Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. 173, t. 291 ; Flora, xx. Suit, a Buffon, iv. 171.— Endl. Gen. n. 6321. 



Beibl. ii. 90.— Berg, Zum<»ff, xxvii. 437 ; Mart. "* Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. \. 113, t. 49. — Macro- 



Fl. Bras. Myrt. 465. — M. rubriflorum Berg, mijrtus Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 439. 



Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 466, t. 7, %. lU.—Te- ^ Seem. Fl. Vit. 76.— B. H. Gen. 724, n. 74. 



trastemon loranthoides Hook, et Arn. loc. cit. — Gaslondia Vieill. Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. x. 96. 



2 Nov. Gen. 226, t. 108.— L. Gen. n. 616.— J. — B. H. Gen. 1006, n. 77. 



Gen. 324. — Lamk. Diet. iii. 196 ; Suppl. iii. 121 ; ^ Cuj. typ. Caryophijllus pterocarpus Vieill. 



III. t. 418.— DC. Frodr. iii. 262.— Spach, Sicit. a Herb, ex Br. et QcVi.—Syzygium pterocalyx Br. 



Buffon, iv. 174.— Endl. Gen. n. 6323.— A. Gray, et Gr. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xiii. 386. 



Unit. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 514, t. 60.— B. H. ' Berg, Linncea, xxvii. 306 ; xxix. 245.— 



Gen.n9,,lOQQ,n. b^.—R.B^.FaijerFam. Nat. ? Plinia L. Gen. n. 671. ^ Stenocalyx Berg, 



364.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 112.— Hook. Fl. Ind. Zinncea, xxvii. Z09. —Sexachlamys Berg, loc. cit. 



ii. i70.—Catinga Aubl. Guian. 511, t. 203.— 345. 



Guapurimn J: Gen. 324:. — GreyqiaGjEUTs.Fruct. ^ G-brtn. Fruct. i. 166, t. 33. — DC. Frodr. 



i. 168, t. SS.—Jossinia Commers. ex DC. Frodr. iii. 259.— Spach, loc. cit. 170.— Endl. Gen. n. 



iii. ZZ7 .—Syllysium Met. et Schau. Nov. Act. eZ20.—Acmena DC. Frodr. iii. 262.— Spach, loc. 



Nat. Cur. iix. Suppl. 334 (incl. : Actnena DC. cit. 170.— Endl. Gen. n. 6322.— Microjambosa 



Caryophyllus L. Clavimyrtus Bl. Cuphceanthus Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 117. 



Seem. Jambosa DC. Myrciaria Berg, Opa Lour. ^ Berg, Linnaa, xxvii. 320 ; xxix. 249 ; xxx. 



Syzijgium G^RTN.). 702 ; xxxi. 259 ; Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 358, t. 



3 T. Inst. 432.— L. Gen. n. 669.— J. Gen. 324. 36, ZL—Siphoneugenia Berg, Linnaa^ xxvii. 

 —Lamk. Diet. ii. 718; III. t. 417.— G^rtn. 344; Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 37^,i.3'i. 



