Myrsine. pentandria, monogynia. 2U5 



ceouV, revo'ute margins ; base narrower, slightly retuse ; four inches 

 long and about two broad at their outer part; smooth above, dotted, 

 finely reticulata underneath, with capillary, numerous nerves and the 

 elevated villous rib. — Petiul short, villous, deeply furrowed, and the 

 margins remarkably crispate, sub-glahduIar.^Pa/i/c/eiam pie, terminal, 

 branchy, consisting of numerous, very long and slender, hoary, spread- 

 ing rucernes. Peduncles filiform ; pedicels capillary, fascicled, or so- 

 litary, four lines long, supported by a minute bracte. — Flowers while. 

 — Calyx very small. Petals lanceolate, villous on both sides ; the 

 filaments inserted above their base.— Berry round, apiculate, when 

 dry blackish, rugose like a pepper-corn, which it also equals in size. 

 Obs. It approaches so ciosely to E. Iiibes as to make it doubt- 

 ful whether or not they ought to be separated. On attending, how- 

 ever, to the following points I think they may be discriminated. In 

 that species the leaves are smaller, lanceolate, acute at the base, quite 

 smooth, the petiols less crispated ; in ours the leaves are larger, ovate, 

 with a retuse base, and \illous under surface ; the panicles are like- 

 wise much larger and more hoary, and the racemes longer in our 

 plant.— N. W 



Additional genera by N. W. 



MYRSINE. Linn, 



Polygamous. Corolla four- seldom five-cleft. Anthers almost 

 sessile. Ovarium four or five-seeded. Stigma mostly lobate or 

 laciniate. Drupe round, with a crustaceous, one-seeded shell. — 

 Brown, prodr. ncv. holl. i. 533. 



1. M. semiserrata, Wall. 



Arboreous, erect. Leaves sharply serrulate froas the middle to 



