MYRTACE^. 355 



Myrtus or Psidium. Fruit baccate oblong, crowned with persistent 

 calyx ; '« seeds angular albuminous ; cotyledons of straight embryo 

 foliaceous flat ; ■ radicle elongate." ^ A shrub ; leaves opposite cori- 

 aceous penninerved, nitid above, cano-tomentose below ; flowers ^ 

 pedunculate, few at summit of ramules, but " finally growing late- 

 rally from branch." {Brazil}) 



9? Marlieria Camb.*— Flowers nearly of Myrtus (or Myrcia); 

 receptacular tube produced beyond germen adnate within. Calyx 

 closed in bud or slightly open at apex and 4-5-lobed (BubacMa ^), 

 oftener at anthesis disruptly 4-5-lobed. Petals 4, 5, or more rarely 

 0. Stamens 00 , 00 -seriate; anthers versatile. Germen 2-4-locular; 

 ovules in cells 2, ascending. Fruit, sometimes crowned with base of 

 calyx, etc., of Myrtus ; cotyledons of incurved embryo contortuplicate. 

 — Trees or shrubs; leaves and inflorescence of Myrcia.^ (Trop. and 

 suhtrojp. America.'^) 



10. Calyptranthes Sw.'— Flowers nearly of Myrtus (or Marlie- 

 ria) ; calyx turbinate, closed in bud, finally at anthesis, circumscissus 

 at base and calyptrately deciduous. Petals i-5, small, very small 

 (or 0). Ovules in 2, 3 cells of germen 2 or more rarely oo {Mitran- 

 thes ®). Fruit baccate, seed, etc., of Myrtus ; cotyledons of incurved 

 embryo contortuplicate. — Trees and shrubs ; leaves and inflorescence 

 of Myrcia. {Trop. America.^^) 



11. Campomanesia E. & Pav." — Flowers nearly of Calyptran- 

 thes ; calyx 5-lobed or more rarely 4-6-lobed, sometimes patelliformly 

 dilated at base {Paivoea^^)', lobes either conspicuous rather obtuse, or 



' Character of seed from Berg, loe. cit. Be. /am. 239. — Zmygium. P. Br. foe. ei,t.. 240 (ex 



- Rather large showy ; stamens coloured. Endl.). — Chytralia Adans. Fam. des PI, ii. 80. — 



' Spec. 1. F. Sellowiana Bbbo. — Orthostemon Oalyptranthm J, Diet. Se. Nat.Tn.27i{iiotBL.). 



Sellowianus Berq. — 0. obovatus Berg, loc. cit. ' Berg, Linncea, xxyii. 316 ; xxix. 248 ; xxx. 



4 A. S.S. m. Bras. Mer. ii. 373, t. 156.— 700. 



Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 183.— Endl. Gen. n. i" Spec, ahout 70. A. S.-H. PI. Us. Bras. t. 



6318.— H. Bn. Payer Pam. Nat. 364.— B. H. 14 ; Fl. Bras. Mer. ii.t. 155.— Seem. Fl. Vit.^l. 



Gen. 716, n. 54. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 232.— Bekg, Mart. 



* Berg, ii«n«Ea xxvii. 11 ; xxix. 209.—Fuge- Fl. Bras. Myrt. 38, t. 16, 17 ; 354, t. 33 [Mi- 



niopsis Berg, Linncea xxvii. 80; xxix. 219; tranthes). — Walp. Mep. ii. 178; v. 752; Ann. 



XXX. 665 ; xxxi. 249. ii. 629. 



^ A genus hetween ^«/raa and Calyptranthes, " Prodr. Fl. Per. 72, t. 13 ; Syst. 128. — DO. 



differing only in the calyx. Prodr. iii. 232. — Spaoh, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 151. 



' Spec, about 35. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. —Endl. (?e«.n. 6314.— B. H. (?en. 712,ii. 43.— 



233.— Berg, Ma/rt. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 28, t. 13 Britoa Berg, iiMdsu, xxvii. 436 ; xxix. 257.— 



{RubaeUa) ; 31, t. 14, 16; 143, t. 21, 22 (E«ge- lacerdma Berg, Zinncea, xxx. 1lS.—AlAevillea 



niopsis). — Walp. JJep. ii. 177. Berg, Linncea, xxvii. 425; xxix. 256; xxxi. 



8 Prodr. 80; Fl. Ind. Oee. 917, t. 15.— DO. 260 (calyx generally larger and more expanded) . 



Prodr. iii. 266.— Space, Suit. d. Buffon, iv. 168. '^ Berg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 614.— B. H. 



—Endl. Qen. n. 6319.— B. H. Qen. 717, n. 55.— Gen. 712, n. 44 (spec. 1, according to authoia 



H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 367. — ChytracuUa P. cited generically distinct). 



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