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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



imperfectly known, range themselves doubtfully near Eugenia, from 

 which perhaps they will not all be definitively separated. The first 

 of these genera is American, likewise the second, remarkable for its 

 stamens being inserted in 



numerous series on the re- 

 ceptacular tube. In the 

 third (which has been 

 doubtfully referred to the 

 preceding), has been placed 

 a Brazilian species and also 

 a species from New Cale- 



Eugenia {Caryophyllus) aromatica. 



Fig. 2S9. Long. sect, of fruit. 



Fig 2S8. Floriferous branch. 



donia, the calyx of which is somewhat different as regards alter- 

 native prefloration. 



II. LEPTOSPERM SERIES. 



In the genus Leptospermum ' (fig. 290-293 

 name to quite a group of MyrtaceiP with dry fruit, 2 the flowers are 



which has given its 



Acicalyptui has ovarian colls (complete or in- 

 complete) containing numerous anatropous 

 ovules, arranged on vertical placentœ ; and 

 Piliocalyx, orthotropous and descending ovules, 

 inserted in each cell on a placenta nearly apical. 

 1 Foiist. Char. Gen. 71, t. 36.— J. Gen. 323.— 

 Gjertn. Fruct. i. 171, t. 35 (part). — Lamk. Diet. 

 iii. 465 ; Suppl. iii. 336; III. t. 423.— DC. Prodi: 

 Hi. 226 (part). — Space, Suit, à Buffo», iv. 141. 



— Endl. Gen. n. 6309.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 

 367.— B. H. Gen. 703, n. 18.— Pabricia GiERTN. 

 Fruct. i. 175, t. 3.5.— Endl. Gen. n. 6310.— 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 464. — Pericalymna Endl. Gen. 

 n. 6307.— Schacer, PI. Preiss. i. 120.— Soma- 

 hspermum Schau. Linnœa, xvii. 242. — Glaphy- 

 ria Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 128. — Mticklotlia 

 Korth. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. 196. 

 2 Myrtaceœ-xerocarpcœ (Schaueu). 



