M1RTACEM. 353 



from the placenta. Fruit baccate or subdrupaceous, divided into oo 

 1-sperinous (sometimes pyreniform) cellules ; seeds in cells solitary, 

 subhorizontal suborbicular or reniform ; embryo, etc., of Myrtus. — 

 Trees or shrubs, villose or tomentose ; leaves opposite, penninerved 

 or 3-plinerved ; flowers 1 axillary, solitary or 2, 3-nate, sometimes co , 

 in rather long cymiferous raceme. 2 {Trop, south, and cast. Asia, 

 Lillian Archip. 3 ) 



3. Decaspermum Fobst. 4 — Flowers nearly of Myrtus, hermaphro- 

 dite or polygamous, 4-5-merous; cells 4, 5, divided into 2 1- or 

 pauciovulate cellules by spurious vertical centripetal septa. Fruit 

 baccate, crowned, with calyx, radiately septate ; cellules 1-spermous ; 

 seeds, etc., of Myrtus. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite penni- 

 nerved ; flowers axillary spuriously ramose ; cymes sometimes in 

 ramose foliate raceme. 5 {Trop. Asia and Oceania. 6 ) 



4. Pimenta Linbl. 7 — Flowers nearly of Myrtus, 4-5-merous ; 

 germen 2, 3-celled. Ovules in cells few (2-4) or solitary, inserted, 

 under apex descending ; micropyle superior lateral. Berry, etc., of 

 Myrtus ; embryo spirally involute, 1-2-cyclical. — Highly fragrant 

 trees ; leaves opposite coriaceous ; flowers 8 in very compound ramose 

 and many-flowered, cymes axillary to uppermost leaves. {Trop. 

 America. 9 ) 



5. Myrcia DC. 10 — Flowers of Pimenta (or Myrtus), 5-merous or 

 more rarely 3, 4-merous ; cells of germen 2, 3 (or more rarely 4, 5), 

 2-ovulate. Ovules collaterally ascending. Fruit baccate, oftener 

 crowned with persistent calyx and other characters of Myrtus; coty- 



1 Rather large, showy, oftener pink. {Nelitris). — Seem. Fl. Vit. 80 (Nelitris). — Mia. 



3 A genus scarcely distinct from Myrtus, with Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 470 (Nelitris). — Benth. Fl. 

 cells of germen transversely and vertically Austral, iii. 279 (Nelitris). — Walp. Ann. ii. 

 locellate. 623; iv. 830 {Nelitris). 



' Spec. 4, 5. Wight, Icon. t. 522. — Mia. Fl. 7 Collect, sub n. 19. — Berg, Linncea, xxvii. 



Ind.-£at. i. p. i. 477.— F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 86, 422.— B. H. Gen. 717, n. 56.— Amomis Berg, 



t. 13 (Myrtus).— Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 829 (Neli- he. cit. 41G. 



Ms).— Benth. Fl. Hough. 120; Fl. Austral, iii. 8 Small ; often in 3-parous cymes. 



272.— Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 250 {Myrtus). 9 Spec. 2. L. Spec. 676 {Myrs). — Sw. Oh. 



4 Char. Gen. 73, t. 37 (1772).— J. Gen. 324, 202 {Myrtus) ; Fl. Iud. Occ. ii. 909 (Myrtus).— 

 453.— Pom. Suppl. ii. 459.— Nelitris G-ertn. DC. Prodr. iii. 243, n. 3 {Myrcia), 285, n. 181 

 Fruct. i. 134, t. 27 (1788).— DC. Prodr. iii. 231. (Eugenia).— Sot. Mag. t. 1236, 3153. 



— Endl. Gen. n. 6313.— B. H. Gen. 716, n. 52. >° Diet. CI. d' Hist. Nat. xi. ; Prodr. iii. 242.— 



— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 469. Endi,. Gen. n. 6317.— Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iv. 



5 The name Forsterianuni is certainly incor- 163. — B. H. Gen. 716, n. 53. — Cerquieria Behg, 

 rect (since the number of seeds is very different), Linncea, xxvii. 5. — Gomidezia Berg, op. cit. 6 ; 

 but having priority and in the absence of proof xxix. 207. — Calyptromyrcia BERG,Limiara, xxvii. 

 it must be retained. M.— Aulomyrcia Berg, op. cit. 35 ; xxix. 216; 



Spec. 4, 5. Wight, Icon. t. 521 {Nelitris). xxx. 654. — Calycampe Berg, op. cit. xxvii. 129. 

 — A. Gray, Unit. St. Fxpl. Exp. Bot. i. 547, t. 60 



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