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ledons of rather large embryo contortuplicate. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves oj^posite ; flowers 1 cymose, few or oftener densely compound - 

 cymose ; bracteoles few, caducous or more rarely rather large folia - 

 ceous, persistent. (Trop, and subtr op. America.") 



6. Rhodamnia Jack. 3 — Flowers of My r tus, 4-merous; germeu 1- 

 locular. Ovules co , inserted on 2 parietal placentne. Fruit baccate, 

 crowned with calyx. Seeds co , often few ; cotyledons of hippocre- 

 piform embryo short. Other characters of Myrtus. — Small trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves opposite ovato-lanceolate, 3-nerved or 3-plinerved, 

 sometimes white beneath ; flowers 4 axillary fasciculate or more rarely 

 solitary; bracteoles 2, small, caducous, inserted at top of pedicel. 

 (Trop, south-east. Asia, trop. east. Oceania. 5 ) 



7. Fenzlia Endl. 6 — Flowers nearly of Myrtus ; receptacle ovoid, 

 not produced beyond germen. Petals and stamens of Myrtus ; 

 anthers versatile. Germen 1-2-locular ; ovules in cells 2, 3, sub- 

 horizontally superposed ; style slender, apex small stigmatose. Fruit 

 subglobular or ovoid, drupaceous, sparsely fleshy, crowned with open- 

 reflexed calyx. Seeds 1, 2, enclosed singly in osseous endocarp ; 

 testa thin ; embryo very long spirally rolled. — Shrubs cano-tomen- 

 tellose ; leaves opposite obtuse penninerved ; flowers 7 axillary soli- 

 tary pedunculate ; bracteoles 2, linear-subulate inserted at top of 

 peduncle. (Australia.*) 



8. Feijoa Berg. 9 — Flowers nearly of Myrtus ; sepals 5, imbricate. 

 Stamens co , oo -seriate ; filaments free short unequal, straight or 

 some slightly incurved or indexed in the bud, finally by anthesis 

 elongate and far exserted, thickly subulate ; anthers ovate introrse. 

 Germen completely or incompletely 4-locular ; placenta3 2-lamellate, 

 sometimes free within. Ovules oo , 2-seriate. Other characters of 



1 Generally small. 5 Spec. 5, 6. DC. Prodi: iii. 279, n. 136 {Bu- 



- Spec, about 350. DC. Mem. Myrtac. t. 15. — genid). — Sm. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 280 {Myrtus). 



H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. t. 544, 545 {Myrtus). — Bl. Bijdr. 1983 {Myrtus).— B\ Muell. Fragm. 



—Field et Gardn. Sert. PL t. 75.— Miq. St. i. 76 {M yrtus).— Wight, Icon. t. 524.— Miq. Fl. 



Surin.t. 9.— A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. t. 140 (?), Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 478.— Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 



142-148. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 234.— 277; Book. Loud. Journ. ii. 219 {Monoxora).— 



Berg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 9, t.10 {Cerguier id); Bot. May. t. 3223 {Euyema).—W&Lr. Pep. v. 



11, t. 11, 12 {Gomidtzia) ; 55, t. 18 (Calyptro- 757; Ann. ii. 627 ; iv. 833. 



myrcia), 59 ; t. 19, 20 (Automyrcia) ; 150, t. 23, 6 Atalcta, 19, t. 17, 18 ; Gen. n. 6274 {Oliniea). 



U.—Bot. Mag. t. 5790.— Walp. Rep. ii. 173, — B. H. Gen. 715, n. 51. 



932 ; v. 751 ; Ann. i. 314 ; ii. 628 ; iv. 833. 7 Moderate, pink. 



3 Mal. Misc. i. (ex Hook. Comp. to Bot. May. s Spec. 2. Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 278. 



i. 153).— Endl. Gen. n. 6338.— B. H. Gen. 714, 9 Linncea, xxix. 258.— B. H. Gen. 712, n. 42. 



n. 50. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 468. — Monoxora Orthoslemon Berg, Linncea, xxvii. 440 ; Mart. 



Wight, III. v. 12, t. 97», fig. 5. Fl. Bras. Myit. 467, t. 7, fig. 158, t. 54 (not K. 



1 Generally small. Bit.). 



