486 BENGAL PLANTS. (Mela 
Ovules pendulous from the top of the locules .............. 
Ovules from the whole inner angle or from a somewhat promi 
septal placenta :— 
Embryo with small seed-leaves ise (Vidi. tad 
Embryo with large, fleshy seed-leaves ......c..sosssesseee Eugenia. 
“Leaves alternate, not gland-dotted :— ] Lips 
Stamens partly imperfect (without anthers) ; fruit ovoid or spherical, 
fleshy ; seeds man Careya. 
Stamens all perfect; fruit angular, fibrous ; seed ie: 
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: 331. Melaleuca Linn. 6 
Trees or shrubs; Je lt te, rarely opposit , entire, lanceolate 
or linear, flat or subterete, 1-3- or many-nerved. Flowers spicate 
or capitate, the heads or spikes sessile in the axil of a floral leaf 
bracts deciduous. Sepals 5, connate in a subglobose calyx-tube 
m 1 ngi- : 
the petals; anthers versatile; cells parallel, with dehiscence. : 
tudj 
Carpels 3, connate in an inferior ovary, enclosed in 
haped ; testa thin ; embryo straight. ab 
Metarzuca Leucapenpron Linn.; F. I. iii. 897; F. 
ii. 465; E. D. M. 340, 
C. Bengal, in parks and gardens. 
A tall tree. Vernac. Cajaputi. 
332. Psidium Linn. ort 
Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite, entire, not dotted. — 
large, white > peduncles solitary or few-flowered, axillary. eee 
4 or 5, quite connate in bud in an urceolate or obovate a 
limb Separating valvately in flower. Petals 4 or 5, free. Stamens 
: a i oe 0 
many, inserted in several series on a wide disk; anthers 
» connate in an ovary with as many chambers ; ovules ae 
cell numerous ; style filiform, often thickish ; stigma aa 
capitate. Fruit a globose, ovoid, or pyriform berry, crow” al 
the calyx-limb or not. Seeds many or few, subre z 
hard; embryo curved, horseshoe-shaped or subspiral. 
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