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Teibe III. MTETE^. 



EUGENIA, Linn. 



(In honour of Prince Eugene of Savoy, who was a protector and 

 encourager of botany.) 



Calyx-tube from globular to narrow-turbinate, not at all or more 

 or less produced above the ovary ; lobes 4, very rarely 5, from large 

 and inabricate to very short and scarcely prominent above the truncate 

 margin. Petals 4, very rarely 5, either free and spreading, or more or 

 less connivent, or connate and falling off in a single calyptra. Stamens 

 numerous, in several series, free or'obscurely collected in 4 bundles ; 

 anthers versatile, usually small, the cells parallel or very rarely 

 divaricate, opening longitudinally. Ovary 2-eelled, or very rarely 

 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell, or only two in an American 

 section. Fruit a berry or sometimes almost a drupe, or nearly dry 

 with a fibrous rind. Seeds either solitary and globose, or few and 

 variously shaped by compression ; testa membraneous or cartilaginous ; 

 embryo thick and fleshy, with a very short radicle, the cotyledons 

 either united in an apparently homogeneous mass or more or less 

 separable. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, penniveined. Elowers 

 (in the Australian species) either solitary in the axils, or in lateral or 

 terminal trichotomous cymes or panicles. 



Ti. myrtifolia, Sims. Scrub Cherry. A small tree or tall shrub, 

 glabrous. Leaves petiolate, from oval-oblong or almost obovate,.to 

 oblong-ftlliptical or almost lanceolate, obtuse or accuminate, 2 to 

 more than 3 inches long, cuneate or narrowed at the base, finely and 

 almost transversely penniveined. Peduncles axillary, lateral or 

 terminating short leafy shoots, bearing usually 3 to 5 flowers but 

 sometimes more, in a loose trichotomous panicle. Calyx-tube turbinate, 

 l'^ to nearly 2 lines diameter ; lobes very unequal, the largest nearly 

 as long as the tube. Petals nearly 3 lines diameter, spreading and 

 separately deciduous. Outer stamens nearly ^ inch long. Ovary 

 about half the length of the calyx-tube, with a cluster of 8 to 10 

 ovules in each cell. Fruit red, ovoid or nearly globular, crowned by 

 the calyx-limb. 



Order RUBIACEiE. 



This is a large and important order, as from its plants we have 

 many most important products, as coffee, gambler, ipecacuanha, 

 quinine, excellent fruits, valuable timber, and useful dyes. The 

 number of species are about 4,100, arranged in a genera of from 330 

 to 340. 



Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; the limb entire or with as many 

 teeth, lobes, or divisions as lobes of the corolla, rarely more, fewer or 

 none. Corolla gamopetalous, inserted round the epigynous disk ; 

 lobes 4, 5, or sometimes more, rarely only 3, either imbricate (often 

 contorted) or valvate in the bud. Stamens as many as lobes of the 

 corolla, alternating with them and inserted in the tube ; anthers versatile, 

 with parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, 2 or more 

 celled, with 1 or more ovules in each cell, rarely 1-celled with parietal 

 placentas, or reduced to one 1-ovulate cell ; style more or less divided 

 into as many stigmatic lobes as carpels to the gynsecium, or undivided 

 with a thickened entire or notched stigma. Fruit a capsule, drupe, 

 berry, or indehiscent nut. Seeds with a fleshy or horny albumen, and 



