MYRTACE. 485 
Order LIV. MYRTACE. 
tally coriaceous’and gland-dotted ; stipules 0 or minute, fugacious. 
a Flowers regular, rarely slightly irregular, hermaphrodite or some- 
a ela “apni rarely subterminal, often 2-bracteolate. 
’ Disk lining the tube. Sepals connate in a superior or half- 
_ Superior calyx ; tin on ually 4-5-, sometimes many-fid or -partite, 
; Persistent or Recadhivus, valvate or imbricate, occasionally entire 
4 or closed in bud. Petals 4-5, rarely 6, or fewer ibe abortion, or 0, 
qual, or the outer slightly larger, usually h_ imbricate. 
numerous, several-seriate, evict definite pe 2- 
 Mehiscence longitudinal, lateral. Ovary h half-inferior or + sitet 
opps by the disk, 1-locular with 1 or more ovules, or 2-many- 
with numerous ovules; style terminal, rarely lateral, 
ate or bearded at the top; stigma simple; ovules campylo- 
Pous or anatrop axial placentas, rarely in 1-locular 
“gag on 2 parietal placentas. Fruit usually tipped by the calyx- 
co. » occasionally half-superior, loculicidally dehiscent above by 
i: Pee valves as there are cells, or dry, indehiscent, 1- seeded, or 
1. ehiscent, fleshy berry with cells many- -seeded or, by arrest, 
“Seeded. Seeds angled, cylindric, or compressed ; testa hard or 
lembranous, sometimes winged; albumen 0; embryo straight, 
“urved, or spirally twisted. 
Reg Bre oy ee OP og eee hy PORE ree 
F; 
: or a loculicidally 3-valved capsule ; leaves alternate, nerves 
ame mare; x rk peeling in spongy flakes ; individual flowers 
--Melale uca, 
me ipsa usually gland-dotted ; fruit berry-like : 486) 
: imb of calyx closed in bu : fi — sub eee ieied wre 
db Separated ehiiecae in seeds numerous.....-+++ 
b of calyx 4~5- ones or wea in bud, not aaa divided will 
in flower ; seeds f 
