SUPPLEMENT. 
THE FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 
By CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD. 
CHAPTER XX VI.— Continued. 
AMILY Myrtaceae. Myrtle Family. A vast and important family 
of nearly 100 genera and some 1700 species. They are trees or 
shrubs with entire, usually opposite and dotted leaves, these often 
having an intra-marginal vein. The flowers are borne in terminal or 
axillary racemes, panicles or rarely cymes, the individual flowers being 
perfect and regular, with the tubular calyx somewhat cohering at the 
apex and bearing the petals alternating with its lobes. The stamens are 
also inserted with the petals and are twice as many or oftener indefinite 
in number. The 1-6 celled ovary is adherent to the calyx and in fruit 
becomes dry or fleshy. 
This family is widely distributed throughout the world, mainly in 
Fig. 173. Flowering Branch of Eucalyptus rostrata. 
