488 BENGAL PLANTS. 
787. Myrtus communis Linn.; F. I. ii. 497; F. B. I. ii. 462; — 
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In lisdinbas Bolias: Tirhut. 
A shrub. Vernac. Belati mehndi. Myrtle. 
335. Eugenia Linn. 
les or shrubs; glabrous or rarely pubescent; leaves opposite, — 
rarely alternate, coriaceous or membranous, penninerved. F lowers 
solitary, axillary, or in short racemes (axillary leafless branches), — 
or in dense terminal cymes, or in lateral or terminal 3-chotomous — 
versatile; dehiscence longitudinal. Carpels 2, rarely 3, connate = 
in a 2-, rarely 3-celled ovary ; se rate in each cell numerous; style 
filiforni ; stigma small. Fruit a drupaceous or dry and fibrous 
berry, crowned by the sahiho — os ca few, globose 
or variously compressed; testa branous or cartilaginous; 
embryo with a short, thick aie ¢ ool y GANS peer or free. a : 
*Calyx inside with a circular or ee oka, disk within or under the . 
stamens ; limb conspicuously 4-lobed, persistent ; flowers large, showy) 
fruits large, ovoid or ae nate; seeds bitpe, several, or if solitary with 
some abortive seeds ; endocarp thick, fleshy :—- 
Leaves ternate ; cis with 8-16 petals, all lakerat calyx-lobes i0- 
curved in fruit.. ail 
Leaves opposite; flowers with 4 petals 
Leaves wide-base dedi: ; oven all lateral; calys-lobes 
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incurved in fruit :— 
Flowers purplish-red ; fruit white .....sc.sssssessereeeeeoet? formost 
Awa pas white ; fruit greenish-yellow 
rowed to the base, tapering into the petiole, or if ro 
not stem-clasping :— 
Flowers all lateral, red ; leaves tapering into petiole ; eh 
mhedtyed in fre SOS Sister arormis-< Bae oe malaccens'* 
Flowers tertatinak as swat as sr or terminal only :— 
+Calyx-lobes incurved in frui —[p. 489 
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}Flowers sessile, in seal and @ bers compact cymes : 
aie or white; leaves rounded or subcordate at at base 3 
-(p. 489) macrocarp — 
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