Gijrocarpm.'\ 39. COMBRKTACE.*:. 93 



valves. Ovary 0. Pumale fl. Calyx-limb ^-divided, accrescent. Petals 

 and stamens 0. Ovary 1-cellod, ovule 1, pendulous. Nut bony, crowned 

 with the 2, winged calyx-lobes ; cotyledons convolute. 

 I G. Jacquini, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. 44.5 ; Fl. Br. I. 2, 461 ; Kz. For. Fl. 

 Br. Burm. 1. 470 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 2.50. Zaitun, Hind. Deccan, 

 banks of the Krishna near Nalutwar, Grab. Belgaum district, in dry 

 forests. Fl. U.S. Fr. C.S. 



Order 40. MYRTACEJE. 



Trees or sbrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, usually gland-dotted 

 and with an intrainarginal vein. Flowers regular, usually herma- 

 phrodite. Calyx 4-5 or more divided. Petals as many as calyx-lobes 

 on disc surrounding cavity of calyx. Stamens usually many. Ovary 

 inferior or I inferior crowned by flesliy disc, 1 -celled, 1-ovuled or 2, 

 many celled with many ovules ou asile placenta. Fruit crowned 

 with the calyx-limb, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds angular, 

 albumen 0. 



Leaves dotted with pellucid glands. Fruit a berry or 



(h'lipe. 



Berry many seeded Psidium. 



Berry few seeded ... ... ... Eugenia. 



Leaves not gland-dotted. Fruit angular fibrous, or 



globose fleshy. 



Fruit angular fibrous ... ... ... Bakringtonia. 



Fruit globose fleshy, many seeded ... ... ... Careva. 



PSIDIUM, Linn. 

 Trees or sbrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers on axillary 

 peduncles, large. Calyx-tube ovate ; limb valvately 4-5-lobed. 

 Petals 4-5. Stamens many. Ovary 2 or more celled ; ovules many. 

 Fruit a many seeded berry. 



p. Guyava, Linn. Bentb. Fl. Hongk. 120. Fl. Br. I. 2. 468 ; Brandis 

 For. b'l. 232. P. purifenim,W. & A. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 

 34. The guyava tree. Jam, ])eru,\erii. Indigenous in Mexico, cultivated 

 througbout the presidency, naturalised in many places. Fl. Apl., May. 

 Fr. R. S. 



EUGENIA, Linn. 

 Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, coriaceous or mem- 

 branous, pinnate nerved. Flowers in lateral or terminal tricboto- 

 mous cymes or panicles. Calyx-tube globose or more or less 

 elongate ; lobes 4, rarely 5. Petals usuUy 4, free and spreading or 

 united in a calyptra. Stamens many, in several series, free or 

 slightly collected in four bundles. Ovary 2, rarely 3-celled ; ovules 

 several in each cell. Fruit a berry, 1 or several seeded, crowned 

 with the persistant calyx-limb. 



Trees. Flowers large, showy, 4-merou3. Calyx with a thickened 



disc. 

 Petals spreading. 



