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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



times multiple 1 ) embryo thick plano-convex, hemispherical or ellip- 

 soid, 2 sometimes unequal ; radicle short straight or incurved more or 

 less incumbent. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite 3 penninerved, 

 sometimes membranous, often coriaceous and other characters of 

 Myrtus ; flowers* axillary solitary or in cymes or short raceme ; 5 in- 

 florescence either centrifugal (Jambosa 6 ), or centripetal (Eugenias- 

 trum 7 ) ; bracts and bracteoles oftener small and caducous. (All 

 trop, and subtrop. regions.*) 



15. Acicalyptus A. Gray. 9 — Flowers nearly of Eugenia ; recep- 

 tacle tubular clavate. Calyx gamophyllous entire conical, circum- 

 scissus at base deciduous. Petals 4, free or coherent, deciduous. 

 Stamens germ en, etc., of Eugenia ; ovules oo , incurved anatropous. 

 Fruit fleshy (?). — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves of Eugenia ; 

 flowers in subcorymbose cymes at apex of ramules. (New Caledonia, 

 Viti Isles: ) 



16 ? Piliocalyx Br. & Gr. 11 — Flowers nearly of Acicalyptus ; re- 

 ceptacle shorter. Calyx calyptrately deciduous. Petals small unequal, 

 more or less adherent. Germen 2-locular ; ovules in cells oo (4-10), 



1 In E. Jambosa we have often seen embryos. 



2 Sometimes conferruminate or unequal hete- 

 romorphous. 



3 Or sometimes (?) it is said, alternate. 



4 Often rather large, showy, white, pink, or 

 more rarely pale yellow. 



6 By defect of bractiferous leaves. 



6 Rumph. Herb. Amb. i. 121.— DC. Pmlr. iii. 

 286.— Spaoh, Suit, à Buffmt, iv. 179.— Exdl. 

 Geii.n. 6324. — Cerocafpus Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bog. 

 262.— Gelpkea Bl. Mus. Lurid. -lint. i. SS, t. 35. 

 — Strongylocalyx Bl. loc. cit. 89, t. 54. — Cleisto- 

 calyx Bl. lue. at. 84, t. 56. 



1 Griseb. El. Brit. W.-Ind. 236. 



8 Spec, about 500. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 

 t. 546 {Myrtus). — Lixdl. Collect. t. 19 {OUnthia), 

 — Wight, III. 13, 14 {Jambosa), 15 (Syzygium) ; 

 Icon. t. 100, 553, 545, 551 ; 73, 216, 525-530, 

 546, 548-550, 608-813 {Jambosa) ; 531-536, 

 538-544 (Syzygium). — Wau,. PI. As. Bar. t. 161 

 {Jambosa). — DO. Diet. Hist. Nat. xi. (Acmena) ; 

 Mem. Mijrtac. t. 16-19 (Syzygium), 20-23.— 

 Gtjillem. et Peur. El. .S'ch. Tent. i. t. 72 (Syzy- 

 gium). — Kl. Pet. Moss. Bot. t. 11 (Kyzygiam). — 

 Hakv. and Sond. El. Cap. ii. 522. — A. Gray, 

 Unit. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 510, t. 68, 59 {Jam- 

 bosa); 514, t. 00; 51S, t. 01-05 (Syzygium).— 

 Seem. El. Vit. 70, SI (Caîyptranthes), 1. 15 (Jam- 



bosa), t. 16 (Syzygium). — Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. p. 

 i. 440, 446 (Syzygium),— Thw. Enum. El. Zeyl. 

 114, 115 {Jambosa), 116 (Syzygium), 118 (Acme- 

 na). — Griseb. El. Brit. W.-Ind. 235 (Caryo- 

 phyllus, Syzygium, Jambosa), 236 (Eugenia). — 

 Hook. f. Hamib. N.-Zeal. El. 74.— Benth. FI. 

 Mongk. lis (Syzygium), 119 (Acmena), 120 (Jam- 

 bosa); El. Austral, iii. 280. — Br. et Gr. Ann. 

 Se. Nat. sér. 5, iii. 215, 219 (Jambosa), 221 (Sy- 

 zydium), 221 (Caryophyttus) ; xiii. 385 (Syzygi- 

 um).— F. Mvei.l. El. Vict. t. suppl. IS (Syzygi- 

 um).— Bot. Reg. t. 627, 1033 (Jambosa).— Bot. 

 Mag. t. 473 (Plinia), S67, 1696, 2230 (Jambosa), 

 4558 (Jossinia), 4526, 4626, 5040, 5480 (Acmena). 

 — Walp. Eep. ii. 172 (Jossinia), 178 (Caîyptran- 

 thes, Syzygium), 181 (Acmena), 191 (Jambosa) ; 

 v. 751 (Syllysium), 752 (Caîyptranthes, Syzygi- 

 um) ; Ann. ii. 026 (Jossinia), 629 (Caîyptranthes, 

 Syzygium), 630 (éelpkaa), 631, 632 (Jambosa), 

 639 (Clavimyrtus), 640 (Microjambosa) ; iv. 832 

 (Jossinia), 833 (Syzygium), 839 (Caryophylhts), 

 840 (Acmena), 841 (Jambosa), 849 (Macromyrtus). 



9 Unit. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 551, t, 67 ; Bon- 

 plandia (1S62), 35.— B. H. Gen. 708, n. 31. 



10 Spec, about 3. Br. et Gr. Ann. Se. Nàt. 

 sér. 5. iii. 227. — Walp. Ann. iv. 853. 



11 Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 5, iii. 225 ; Nom. Arch. 

 Mus. iv. 26, t. 10— B. II. Gen. 1006, n. 78. 



