MYRTACEM. 353 



from the placenta. Fruit baccate or subdrupaceous, divided into oo 

 l-spermous (sometimes pyreniform) cellules ; seeds in cells solitary, 

 subhorizontal suborbicular or reniform ; embryo, etc., of Myrtus. — 

 Trees or sbrubs, villose or tomentose ; leaves opposite, penuinerved. 

 or 3-plinerved ; flowers' axillary, solitary or 2, 3-nate, sometimes oo , 

 in rather long cymiferous raceme.^ {Trap, south, and east. Asia, 

 Indian Archijp.^) 



3. Decaspermum Foest.*— Mowers nearly oi Myrtus, hermaphro- 

 dite or polygamous, 4-5-merous ; cells 4, 6, divided into 2 1- or 

 pauciovulate cellules by spurious vertical centripetal septa. Fruit 

 baccate, crowned with calyx, radiately septate ; cellules l-spermous ; 

 seeds, etc., of Myrtus. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite penui- 

 nerved ; flowers axillary spuriously ramose ; cymes sometimes in 

 ramose foliate raceme.^ (Trop. Asia and Oceania.^) 



4. Pimenta Lindl.^ — Flowers nearly of Myrtus, 4-5-merous; 

 germen 2, 3-cened. Ovules in cells few (2-4) or solitary, inserted 

 under apex descending ; micropyle superior lateral. Berry, etc., of 

 Myrtus; embryo spirally involute, 1-2 -cyclical. — Highly fragrant 

 trees ; leaves opposite coriaceous ; flowers * in very compound ramose 

 and many-flowered cymes axillary to uppermost leaves.' (Trop, 

 America.^) 



5. Myrcia DC.'° — Flowers of Pimenta (or Myrtus), 5-merous or 

 more rarely 3, 4-merous ; cells of germen 2, 3 (or more rarely 4, §), 

 2-ovulate. Ovules collaterally ascending. Fruit baccate, oftener 

 crowned with persistent calyx and other characters of MyrtuS ; coty- 



^ Rather large, showy, oftener pink. (NelUris). — Seem. Fl. Tit. 80 [Nelitris). — Mia. 



2 A genus scarcely distinct from Myrtus, with Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 470 {Nelitris). — Bhnth. Fl. 

 cells of germen transversely and vertically Austral, iii. 279 {Nelitris). — Walp. Ann. ii. 

 locellate. 623; iv. 830 {Nelitris). 



3 Spec. 4, 5. Wight, Icon. t. 322. — ^Miq. Fl. ■ 7 Collect, sub n. 19. — ^Bkrs, lannaa, xxvii. 

 Ind.-Bat. i p. i. 477. — F. Muell. jP;«^«. ii. 86, 422. — B. H. Gen. 717, n. 56. — Aniomis Berg, 

 t. 13 {Myrtus).— Hots, Gen. Syst. ii. 829 {Neli- he. cit. 416. 



<m).— Benth. Fl. Zongh. 120; Fl. Austral, iii. * Small; often in 3-paraus cymes. 



272.— Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2.50 {Myrtus). « Spec. 2. L. S.pe<i. 676 {Myrs). — Sw. Ohs. 



* Char. Gen. 73, t. 37 (1772).— J. Gen. 324, 202 {Myrtus) ; Fl. Ind. Oce. ii. 9»9 {Myrtus).— 

 453.— PoiR. Suppl. ii. 459.— Nelitris G^utn. DC. Frodr. iii. 243, n. 3 {Myrcia), 285, n. 181 

 Fruet. i. 134, t. 27 (1788).— DC. Frodr. Hi. 231. {Eugenia).— Bot. Mag, t. 1236, 3153. 



— Endl. Gen. n. 6313.— B. H. Gen. 716, n. 52. " Diet. Cl.d'Hist.Nat.^i.; Frodr.m.2ii.— 



—Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 469. Endi. Gen. n. 6317.— SpAcfl, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 



* The name Forsterianum is certainly incor- 163.— B. H. Gen. 716, n. SS.—Cerquieria Berg, 

 rect (since thenumber of seeds is very different), Idnnma, xxvii. 5. — Gotnidezia Bekg, op. cit. 6; 

 but having priority and in the absence of proof xxix. 207.—Calyptromyreia BEHG,Z)»M<e«, xxvii. 

 it must be retained. ii.—Aulomp-cia Bekg; op. cit. 35 ; xxix. 216 ; 



» Spec. 4, 5. Wight, Icon. t. 521 {Nelitris). xxx. 6U.—Calycampe Berg, op.oit. xxvii. 129. 

 —A. Gray, Unit. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 547, t. 60 



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