MYRTACE^. 357 



plicate in bud, scarcely capitellate at stigmatose apex. Ovules in 

 cells 00 , peltately inserted in rays on orbicular 2-lamellate placenta. 

 Berry ovoid, crowned vritb. calyx; seeds 1, 2, curved or cochleate ; 

 embryo conformably curved ; radicle longer than indistinct cotyledons. 

 — A small tree or shrub; leaves opposite, penninerved nitid; sti- 

 pules (?) setaceous very small, caducous ; flovrers in 2-parous cymes 

 springing from the wood; lateral pedicellate. (Subtrop. S, America.^) 



14. Eugenia Micheli.^ — Flowers of Myrtus ; receptacle globose, 

 ovoid, obconical, turbinate or tubular (Garyophyllus^), long attenuate 

 at base ( Olavi/myrtus* CupJicecmthus ^), externally either glabrous, or 

 angular or thickly alate (Pteromyrtus^). Sepals 5, or oftener 4, 

 imbricate or more or less widely foliaceous (Phyllocalyx''), rarely 

 very short dentiform. Petals 4, 5, or very rarely 6-oo (or 0), some- 

 times more or less connate in a hood (Syzygium *), sometimes thick 

 coriaceous, deciduous. Stamens oo (of Myrtus), or free, or obscurely 

 4!-5-adelphovLa in hnd (Oaryophyllus) ; anthers often versatile ; cells 

 parallel or rarely divaricate. Germen inferior, 2- or very rarely 3- 

 locular ; style slender, scarcely or not at all incrassate at stigmatose 

 apex. Ovules in cells oo , rarely 2-4 {Myrciaria ^). Fruit baccate 

 (sometimes (?) drupaceous), rarely coriaceous or corticate. Seeds 

 generally 1, or few, variously inserted, globose, ovoid or variously 

 compressed and angular ; cotyledons of fleshy exalbuminous (some- 



' Spec. 1. M. atropurpweum ScnoTT. — Makt. Frucf. i. t. 33. — DO. Prodr. iii. 261. — Spach, 



Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. 173, t. 291 ; Flora, xx. Suit. aBuffon, iv. 171.— Endl. Gen. n. 6321. 



Beibl. ii. 90.— Bbkg, Linnasa,^xvv.. 437 ; Mart. * Bl. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. i. 113, t. i9.—Miicro- 



Fl. Bras. Myrt. 465. —M. rubriflorum Berg, myrtus Mm. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 439. 



Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 466, t. 7, fig. lU.—Te- ' Seem. FL Vit. 76.— B. H. (?«. 724, n. 74. 



trastemon loramthoides Hook, et Abu. lot. cit. —Gaslondia Vieill. Bull. Soc. Liim. Norm. x. 96. 



2 Nov. Gen. 226, t. 108.— L. Gen. n. 616.— J. — B. H. Gen. 1006, n. 77. 



Gen. 324.— Lamk. -Diet. iii. 196 ; Suppl. iii. 121 ; " Cuj. typ. Caryophyllus pterocarpus Vieill. 



III. t. 418.— DC. Prodr. Hi. 262.— Spaoh, Suit, a Herb, ex Be. et GtR.—Sysyffium pterooalyx Br. 



Buffon,vr. 174.— Endl. Gen. n. 6323.— A. Gray, et Gr. Ann. Sc. Nat. agr. 6, xiii. 386. 



Unit. St. Expl. Fxp. Bot. i. 614, t. 60.— B. H. ? Berg, Linnaa, xxvii. 306; xxix. 245.— 



Gen.m,W(i&,n.. b9>.—B..'BTS. Payer Fam. Nat. ? Plinia L. Gen. n. 671. — Stenocalyx Berg, 



364.1_Baker, Fl. Maunt. 112.— Hook. Fl. Ind. Unnaa, xxvii. ZO^.—HexacAUmys Berg, loe. cit. 



ii. i'JQ.—Catinga Aubl. Guian. 611, t. 203. — 345. 



Guapurimn3:Gen.S2i.—GregqiaG:MB.TS.Fruet. 8 G^rtn. Frwst. i. 166, t. 33.— DC. Prodr. 



i. 168, t. 38.— /osswia Commers. ex DC. Prodr. iii. 269.— Spach, loc. cit. 170.— Endl. Gen. n. 



iii. S37. —Sylh/sium Met. et Schatj. Nov. Act. &3W.—Acmena DC. Prodr. iii. 262.— Spach, loo. 



Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. 334 (inol. ; Acmena DC. cit. 170.— Endl. Gen. n. 6S22.—Miorojambosa 



Caryophyllus L. Clavimyrtus Bl. Cuphoeanthus Bl. Mm. £ugd.-Bat. i. 117. 



Seem. Jambosa DC. Myrciaria Berg, Opa Lour. » Berg, Linncea, xxvii. 320 ; xxix. 249 ; xxx. 



Syzygium GiERTN.). 702 ; xxxi. 259 ; Mart. Fl. Bra.. Myrt. 368, t. 



* T. Inst. 432.— L. Gen. n. 669.— J. Gen. 324. 36, Z1 .—Siphoneugenia Berg, Litmaa, xxvu. 



— Lamk. iiot. ii. 718 ; III. t. 417.— G.ertn. 344 ; Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 378, t. 38. 



