MYRTACE^. 359 



descending from apex of internal angle, orthotropous ; micropyle in- 

 ferior. Fruit fleshy; seeds . . . ?— Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite 

 or subopposite ; flowers in terminal compound cymes. {New Cale- 

 donia}) 



17 ? Aulacocarpus Beeg.^ — Flowers . . . ? " Fruit drupaceous 

 depressed globose, crowned with 5-fid calyx, 1-5-pyrenous. Seeds 

 in subligneous pyrenes solitary obovoid ; testa thick ; embryo of 

 Eugenia.''' — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite wide penninerved ; 

 fruit axillary glomerate, shortly pedicellate.' (Trap. America.*) 



18? Calycorectes Berg.^ — Flowers nearly ot Eugenia; calyx 

 subcorneal, valvate, hiant at apex, 4-6-fid. Stamens qo , inserted 

 higher than germen in receptacle dilated to cupule, and there qo - 

 seriate. Germen adnate within to bottom of turbinate receptacle ; 

 cells 2, 00 -ovulate. Fruit baccate, crowned with persistent calyx ; 

 seeds, embryo,® etc., of Eugenia. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 penninerved ; flowers axillary solitary or cymose, variously pedicel- 

 late/ {Trop. America.^) 



19 ? Shizocalyx Berg.' — Flowers nearly of Calycorectes; recep- 

 tacle very concave, produced higher above germen in cupule and 

 bearing higher oo stamens qo -seriately inserted. Sepals 4, 5, tomen- 

 tose without, imbricate at free apex and there as also in bud some- 

 what open. Germen 2-locular and other characters of Calycorectes. 

 Fruit . . . ? — Trees ; leaves opposite, oftener tomentose, penninerved ; 

 flowers axillary pedunculate solitary; peduncles 2-bracteolate. 

 {Brazil, New Caledonia ? ") 



3 4_ 10 The Brazilian speoiea S. Pohlianus Berg, 



2 linnaa, xxvii. 345. — B. H. Gen. 720, n. 60. by more recent authors referred to Calycorcetes 



3 A douhtful genus, perhaps only a section of (B. H. Gen. 720), hut differs particularly ia the 

 i«^e«ja, with fruit sometimes (?) drupaceous. estivation of the calyx. Is the south Caledo- 



* Spec, about 2. Bbnth. Sulph. t. 37 {Campo- nian species S. ruUginosa Bb. et Gk. {Ann. So. 



mrama).— Gbiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 239 ; Cat. Nat. ser. 6, xiii. 378), the Spermolepis ruUginosa 



Fl. Cub. 90. Bebg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 380, of the same authors {Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. S, ii. 



^_ 4.0_ 137), whose solitary flowers well agree, and 



6 Linntea, xxvii. 317; xxix. 249; xxx. 701; whose fleshy fruit is crowned with the calyx. 



Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 356, t, 34.— B. H. Gen. its seed alhuminoiis, the cotyledons of fleshy 



720 n. 69. embryo plano-convex, and short radicle slightly 



« 'Known in one species (Bebo). prominent, really of this genus ? Eugenia ovi- 



' Perhaps a section of Eugenia (B. H.). gera Bb. et Gn. {Ann. Sc. Nat. s&. 5, iii. 216), 



" Spec, enumerated, 6, 7. appears from its fruit to be congeneric with 



9 ii«««a xxvii. 319; Mart. Fl Bras. Myrt. this. Which is assigned to its proper genua 



357, t. 35. {Schizomyrtus) 1 



