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remarkably angular branches and peduncles of our plant, and 

 their fruits are much larger. 



Eugenia Johnsoni. 



Glabrous ; branchlets almost cylindric ; leaves of firm consist- 

 ence, mostly ovate-lanceolar, much contracted towards the blunt 

 summit, gradually narrowed into a conspicuous petiole, rather 

 prominently pinnular-venulated, but with concealed punctation ; 

 peduncles slender, axillary and terminal, from three- to several- 

 flowered ; bracteoles narrow, fugacious ; tube of the calyx smooth, 

 passing gradually into the pedicel ; lobes four, rather large, almost 

 semi-ovate, during anthesis as long as the tube or longer, devoid 

 of any conspicuous membranous margin ; anthers narrow-elliptic ; 

 fruit comparatively large, one-seeded, turgid-ovate, but excavated 

 and slightly incurved four-lobed at the summit, its pericarp 

 succulent, outside red. 



Mount Bartle Frere, at about 4,000 feet elevation ; there con- 

 sociated with Halfordia, which, when in fruit, bears great resem- 

 blance to this Eugenia ; S. Johnson. 



A tree, known to attain a height of 40 feet. Leaves seldom 

 more than 3 inches long and i^ broad, but often smaller. 

 Inflorescence 2^ inches or less long. Calyx before expansion 

 clavate-ovate, lobes nearly ^ inch long, showing no pale mem- 

 branous dilatation and only slightly overlapping in bud. Petals 

 only to a small extent overreaching the calyx. Fruit ^ to ^ 

 inches long ; its pericarp rather thick, of subacrid and somewhat 

 aromatic taste. Seed turgidly ovate, about ^-inch long; its 

 Cotyledons one above the other. The unexpanded flower^ 

 I'esemble those of some Eucal)7pts, and impart to this species a 

 peculiar appearance. 



Near U. Tierneyana ; but that species recedes in thinner and 

 often more elongated leaves, with more distant and therefore 

 fewer primary venules, in ampler florescence, in almost semi- 

 orbicular calyx-lobes conspicuously membranous towards the 

 margin, in shorter and thus more globular fruits. As Eugenia 

 Sayeri a plant has now been distinguished from the same region. 

 This additional species has leaves much like those of ^. Johnsoni, 

 but flowers similar to those of E. Tierneyana. The fruits of this 

 congener remain unknown. 



Specimens of several other new Australian Eugenias accumu- 

 lated through many years in our collections; but the material is 

 still insufficient for offering satisfactory diagnoses of them. 



Eugenia Armstrongi has been found recently by Mr. Nicholas 

 Holtze near Port Darwin. From it differs E. angoplioroides in 

 angular branchlets. broader leaves above darker coloured and 

 with a rather less prominent venulation, somewhat smaller 

 flowers devoid of conspicuous pedicels, less lobed calyces, 

 evidently larger fruits outside blackish. 



