248 TWO LITTLE-KNOWN AUSTRALIAN MYRTACES, 
is applied to both: Lamarck’s plant was published a year later than 
Gaertner’s. 
2. Myrtus NITIDA 
J. F. Gmel. Syst. 792 (1791). 
Syzygium lucidum Gaertn. Fruct. i. 167, t. xxxiii. (1788). 
Eugenia lucida Banks [& Sol.] ex Gaertn. 1. c., et in Herb.! 
Sol. MSS. : 
Myrtus monosperma F. Muell. in Victorian Naturalist, ix. 9 
(1892). 
This interests and distinct plant seems to have remained un- 
noticed for more than a hundred years since it was first obtained 
by Banks and Bolivar j in the same district—Endeavour River—in 
which it was collected by Mr. W. Persich about 1891. The Banksian 
specimens, with Gaertner’s names eee to them by Dryander, 
have remained in the Herbarium at the of Eugenia ever since 
they were first placed there, and were ovadobked by Bentham when 
he was engaged upon the euatrelien Flora. melin’s name, which 
é pris in Bake Pinal s. The single seed at once 
distinguishes M. nitida from any species included in the Flora 
scakie and, so far as I know, from those more recently 
2 The following description i is extracted from Solander’s MSS.:— 
Arbor parva, cortice levi. Rami tenaces, teretes. Folia opposita, 
i ani 
dating from 
Thee examination of ue Banksian MSS., drawings, and herbarium 
has convinced me that the names published by ccsats : —s in 
