Myrtus.} 
MYRTACEA. 487 
785. Pstorum Guyava Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 468; E. D. P. 1848. 
P. pyriferum F. I. ii. 480. P. pomiferwm F. I. ii. 480. 
Naturalised and planted in all the provinces. 
A small tree. Hind. Amrud; Beng. Piyar. The Guava. 
333. Pimenta Lindl. 
Fragrant trees ; leaves large, coriaceous, dotted, opposite, penni- 
nerved. Flowers small, in many-flowered 3-chotomous cymes, in 
the upper axils. Sepals 4 or 5, connate in a small turbinate or 
campanulate tube, little if at all produced beyond the ovary; 
7 lobes of limb spreading, persistent. Petals 4 or 5, spreading. 
Stamens many, in several series, free ; filaments filiform ; anthers 
short, versatile, dehiscence longitudinal. Carpels 2, connate in @ 
ovary ; ovules 1-4 in each cell, pendulous from near the 
top of the inner angle ; style filiform ; stigma small or subcapitate. 
Fruit a small berry crowned by the calyx-limb. Seeds few, 
; testa membranous oF hard; embryo 
more or less spiral, with a very long radicle and short cotyledons. 
86, Prwenta orricinatis Berg. P. acris F. B. I. ii. 462, 
Occasionally planted in native gardens, especially in the 
eastern provinces. 
A fragrant tree. The Allspice or Pimenta. 
334. Myrtus Linn. 
Shrubs, rarely trees; leaves opposite, penninerved, usually 
small, Flowers on axillary, generally slender peduncles, solitary 
ot eymosely 3-7, less often numerous, the central with a short 
i imbricate or open. Petals 4 or 5, spreading. 
Giien series; filaments free, filiform or flattened ; anthers 
ie ile or basifixed; dehiscence longitudinal. Carpe 2-3, 
fr Y 4, connate in an ovary with as many perfect or partial cells, 
on tue septa not always reaching the axis; placentas sometimes 
ene, sometimes 2-lamellate, with many ovules irregularly or 
lag Y arranged on the axis; style filiform ; stigma small, 
limb, ae Fruit a berry, usually crowned by the calyx- 
wo naked. Seeds 1-2 perfect, less often many, 
shaped orm; testa hard or membranous; embryo 
“Ped; radicle very long, cotyledons small or minute. 
