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ledons of rather large embryo contortuplicate. — Trees or shrubs; 

 leaves opposite ; flowers' cymose, few or oftener densely compound- 

 cymose ; bracteoles few, caducous or more rarely rather large folia- 

 ceous, persistent. (Trop. and suhtrop. America.^) 



6. Rhodamnia Jack,^ — Flowers of Myrtus, 4-merous; germen 1- 

 locular. Ovules oo , inserted on 2 parietal placentae. Fruit baccate, 

 crowned with calyx. Seeds oo , often few ; cotyledons of hippocre- 

 piform embryo short. Other characters of Myrtus. — Small trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves opposite ovato-lanceolate, 3 -nerved or 3-plinerved, 

 sometimes white beneath ; flowers * axillary fasciculate or more rarely 

 solitary; bracteoles 2, small, caducous, inserted at top of pedicel. 

 (Trop. south-east. Asia, trap. east. Oceania.^) 



7. Fenzlia Endl.® — Flowers nearly of Myrtus ; receptacle ovoid, 

 not produced beyond germen. Petals and stamens of Myrtus ; 

 anthers versatile. Germen 1-2-locular; ovules in cells 2, 3, sub- 

 horizontally superposed ; style slender, apex small stigmatose. Fruit 

 subglobular or ovoid, drupaceous, sparsely fleshy, crowned with open- 

 reflexed calyx. Seeds 1, 2, enclosed singly in osseous endocarp; 

 testa thin ; embryo very long spirally rolled. — Shrubs cano-tomen- 

 tellose; leaves opposite obtuse penninerved; flowers''' axillary soli- 

 tary pedunculate; bracteoles 2, linear-subulate inserted at top of 

 peduncle. (Australia.^) 



8. Feijoa BjiJEG.' — Flowers nearly of Myrtus ; sepals 5, imbricate. 

 Stamens oo , oo -seriate ; filaments free short unequal, straight or 

 some slightly incurved or inflexed in the bud, finally by anthesis 

 elongate and far exserted, thickly subulate ; anthers ovate introrse. 

 Germen completely or incompletely 4-locular ; placentae 2-lamellate, 

 sometimes free within. Ovules oo , 2-seriate. Other characters of 



' Generally small. * Spec. 5, 6. DC. Frodr. iii. 279, n. 136 {Xu- 



2 Spec, about 350. DC. M&n. Myrtac. t. IS. — genia). — Sm. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 280 {Myrtus). 

 H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. t. 544, 545 {Mt/rtm). — Bl. Bijdr. 1983 {Myrtus).~F. Muell. Fragm. 

 —Field et Gabdn. Sert. Fl. t. 75.— Mia. St. i. 76 {Myrtus). — Wight, Icon. t. 624.— Mia. Fl. 

 Surin. t. 9. — A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 1. 140 (?), Fnd.-Bat. i. p. i. 478. — Benth. Fl. Awtral. iii. 

 142-148. — GmSEB. Fi: Brit. W.-Ind. 234.— 277 ; Boole. Bond. Joum. ii. 219 {Monoxora).— 

 BsBO, Mart. Fl. Bras. M!/rt.9,t.\0 {Cerquieria); Bot. Mag. t. 3223 {Fugenia).—WALF. Rep. v. 

 11, t. 11, 12 {Gomidezia) ; 55, t. 18 {Calyptro- 767; Ann. ii. 627 ; iv. 833. 



myrcia), 69 ; t. 19, 20 (Automyroia) ; 160, t. 23, « Atahta, 19, 1. 17, 18 ; Gen. n. 6274 {OUniece). 



2i:— Bot. Mag. t. 6790.— Walp. Sep. ii. 173, — B. H. Oen. 715, n. 61. 

 932 ; V. 761 ; Ann. i. 314 ; ii. 628 ; iv. 833. 7 Moderate, pink. 



3 Mai. Misc. i. (ex Sook. Comp. to Bot. Mag. » Spec. 2. Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 278. 



i. 163).— Enbl. Gen. n. 6338.— B. H. Gen. 714, 9 Linnaa, xxix. 268.— B. H. Gen. 712, n. 42. 



n. 50.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 468. — Monoxora Orthostemon Beeo, Linmm, xxvii. 440; Mart. 

 Wight, III. ii. 12, t. 97", fig. 6. m. Bras. Myit. 467, t. 7, fig. 168, t. 64 (not E. 



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Generally small. Bk.). 



