MYRTACEJE. 359 



descending from apex of internal angle, orthotropons ; micropyle in- 

 ferior. Fruit fleshy; seeds . . . ? — Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite 

 or subopposite ; flowers in terminal compound cymes. (New Cale- 

 donia}) 



17 ? Aulacocarpus Bero.^ — Flowers . . . ? *^ Fruit drupaceous 

 depressed globose, crowned with 5-fid calyx, 1-5-pyrenous. Seeds 

 in subligneous pyrenes solitary obovoid ; testa thick ; embryo of 

 Eugenia^ — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite wide penninerved ; 

 fruit axillary glomerate, shortly pedicellate.^ (Trap, America*) 



18? Calycorectes Berg.^ — Flowers nearly of Eugenia; calyx 

 subconical, valvate, hiant at apex, 4-6 -fid. Stamens oo , inserted 

 higher than germen in receptacle dilated to cupule, and there oo - 

 seriate. Germen adnate within to bottom of turbinate receptacle ; 

 cells 2, 00 -ovulate. Fruit baccate, crowned with persistent calyx ; 

 seeds, embryo,^ etc., of Eugenia. — Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite 

 penninerved ; flowers axillary solitary or cymose, variously pedicel- 

 late/ (Trop. America.^) 



19 ? Shizocalyx Berg.^ — Flowers nearly of Calycorectes ; recep- 

 tacle very concave, produced higher above germen in cupule and 

 bearing higher oo stamens oo -seriately inserted. Sepals 4, 5, tomen- 

 tose without, imbricate at free apex and there as also in bud some- 

 what open. Germen 2-locular and other characters of Calycorectes, 

 Fruit . . . ? — Trees ; leaves opposite, oftener tomentose, penninerved ; 

 flowers axillary pedunculate solitary; peduncles 2-bracteolate. 

 {Brazil, New Caledonia ? ^^) 



^ Spec. 3, 4. ^^ The Brazilian species S. Pohlianus Berg, 



'^ Linncea, xxvii. 345. — B. H. Gen. 720, n. 60. by more recent authors referred to Cahjcorcetes 



3 A doubtful genus, perhaps only a section of (B. H. Gen. 720), but differs particularly in the 



Eugenia, with fruit sometimes (?) drupaceous. aestivation of the calyx. Is the south Caledo- 



^ Spec, about 2. Benth. Sulph. t. 37 {Campo- nian species S. rubiginosa Br. et Gr. {Ann. Sc. 



manesia). — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 239 ; Cat. Nat. ser. 5, xiii. 378), the Spermolepis rubiginosa 



PI. Cub. 90.— Berg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 380, of the same authors {Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, ii. 



t. 40. 137), whose solitary flowers well agree, and 



5 Linncea, xxvii. 317 ; xxix. 249 ; xxx. 701 ; whose fleshy fruit is crowned with the calyx, 



Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 356, t. 34.— B. H. Gen. its seed albuminous, the cotyledons of fleshy 



720, n. 59. embryo plano-convex, and short radicle slightly 



^ Known in one species (Berg). prominent, really of this genus? Eugenia ovi- 



' Perhaps a section of Eugenia (B. H.). gera Br. et Gr. {Ann. Sc. Nat. b6t. 5, iii. 216), 



» Spec, enumerated, 6, 7. appears from its fruit to be congeneric with 



8 Linncea xxvii. 319 ; Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. this. Which is assigned to its proper genus 



357, t. 35. {Schizomyrtus) ? 



