M YR TA CE JE. 359 



descending from apex of internal angle, orthotropons ; micropyle in- 

 ferioi". Fruit fleshy; seeds . . . ? — Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite 

 or subopposite ; flowers in terminal compound cymes. (New Cale- 

 donia?) 



17 ? Aulacocarpus Berg. 2 — Flowers ... ? " Fruit drupaceous 

 depressed globose, crowned with 5-fid calyx, 1-5-pyrenous. Seeds 

 in subligneous pyrenes solitary obovoid ; testa thick ; embryo of 

 Eugenia.''' — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite wide penninerved ; 

 fruit axillary glomerate, shortly pedicellate. 3 ( Trap. America?) 



18? Calycorectes Berg. 5 — Flowers nearly of Eugenia; calyx 

 subconical, valvate, hiant at apex, 4-6-fid. Stamens co , inserted 

 higher than germen in receptacle dilated to cupule, and there co - 

 seriate. Germen adnate within to bottom of turbinate receptacle ; 

 cells 2, co -ovulate. Fruit baccate, crowned with persistent calyx ; 

 seeds, embryo, 6 etc., of Eugenia. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 penninerved ; flowers axillary solitary or cymose, variously pedicel- 

 late. 7 (Trop. America?) 



19 ? Shizocalyx Berg. 9 — Flowers nearly of Calycorectes ; recep- 

 tacle very concave, produced higher above germen in cupule and 

 bearing higher co stamens co -seriately inserted. Sepals 4, 5, tomen- 

 tose without, imbricate at free apex and there as also in bud some- 

 what open. Germen 2-locular and other characters of Calycorectes. 

 Fruit . . . ? — Trees ; leaves opposite, oftener tomentose, penninerved ; 

 flowers axillary pedunculate solitary ; peduncles 2-bracteolatc. 

 (Brazil, Nciv Caledonia ? 10 ) 



1 Spec. 3, 4. 10 The Brazilian species S. Ponlianus Berg, 



3 Zimitea, xxvii. 345. — B. H. Gen. 720, n. 60. by more recent authors referred to Calycorectes 



3 A doubtful genus, perhaps only a section of (B. H. Gen. 720), but differs particularly in the 

 Eugenia, with fruit sometimes (?) drupaceous. aestivation of the calyx. Is the south Caledo- 



4 Spec, about 2. Benth. Sulpk. t. 37 (Campo- nian species S. rubiginosa Br. et Gr. [Ann. Se. 

 manesia). — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-hid. 239 ; Cat. Nat. Ber. 5, xiii. 378), the Spermolepis rubiginosa 

 PI. Cub. 90. — Berg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Mijrt. 380, of tho same authors (Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, ii. 

 t. 40. 137), whose solitary flowers well agree, and 



5 Linncea, xxvii. 317 ; xxix. 249 ; xxx. 701 ; whose fleshy fruit is crowned with the calyx, 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 356, t. 34. — B. H. Gen. its seed albuminous, the cotyledons of fleshy 

 720, n. 59. embryo plano-convex, and short radicle slightly 



6 Known in one species (Berg). prominent, really of this genus? Eugenia ovi- 

 ' Perhaps a section of Eugenia (B. H.). gera Br. et Gr. (Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, iii. 216), 

 ■ Spec, enumerated, 6, 7. appears from its fruit to be congeneric with 

 9 Linncea xxvii. 319; Mart. Fl. Bras. Mgrt. this. Which is assigned to its proper genus 



357, t. 35. (Schizomyrtus) ? 



