240 MYETACEiE. 



9. ANAMOMIS, Or. 



Calyx 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5. Oeary 2-4-celled, as long as the calyx-tube : cells multi- 

 ovulate. Berry 1-few-seeded. Testa membranaceous. Bmiryo annular : cotyledons dis- 

 tinct, large, incurred-obovate, flat, fleshy : radicle basilar, incurved and approaching the lop 

 of the cotyledons. — Inflorescence cymose (rarely reduced to single pedicels) : central fiower 

 sessile, 2 lateral ones pedicellate, inserted into the axils of the bracteoles. 



This genus in habit resembles Myrcia coriacea and Pimenta acris, in both of which, 

 however, the calyx-tube exceeds the ovary. From Eugenia it is easily distinguished by its 

 centrifugal inflorescence, and approaches Myrcianthes, the embryo of which is differently 

 described. A third Anamomis is Eugenia esculenta. Berg, a large tree, observed in Haiti 

 by Schomburgk. 



42. A. fragraus, Gr. Early glabrate; leaves leathery, oval-roundish or obovate, 

 emarginate at the rounded or obtusate top, shining above, black-dotted beneath, cartila- 

 ginous on the margin : pellucid dots early disappearing : veins delicate, distant ; peduncles 

 nearly as long as the leaves, puberulous ; iracteoles shorter than the sericeous calyx-tube ; 

 calyx-limb 4-partite ; berry globose. — Myrtus, Sw. Eugenia, W. — A small tree, or shrub, 

 very variable in the leaves, their glands impressed or promiuulous on the upper side, and 

 chiefly in the inflorescence, the cymes being either simple, 3 (-1) -flowered, or long-exserted, 

 with repeated, dichotomous ramifications, and the single 3-flpwered cymes expanded or con- 

 tracted. 



o. Leaves oval-roundish, shortly petioled, rounded at the base ; bracteoles linear. — ^Eugenia 

 rotundifolia, Macf. : a form with 3-1-flowered, contracted cymes, and crenulate leaves. — 

 Leaves li"-2" long, 1"-!^" broad ; petiole V" long ; ultimate pedicels in the expanded 

 form 3"'-6"' long ; flowers 4'", berries 3'" diam. 



0. cuneata. Leaves obovate or oval, shortly ouneate at the petioled base ; bracteoles 

 lanceolate ; peduncles usually simple. — ^Eugenia emarginata, Macf. ; E. dichotoma and 

 bracteata, Macf. .''—Leaves li'-g" long, 8"'-15"' broad : petiole V"-^'" long. 



Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Al., March, in the mountains. 

 • -^ 43. A. punctata, Gr. Branchlets pubescent ; ^ea»ei chartaceous, at length leathery, 

 "^ elliptical, blimtish, cuneate at the base, black-dotted beneath, glabrate, pellucid-dotted, at 

 length opaque ; veins delicate, distant ; peduncles nearly as long as the leaves, pubescent, 

 3— 7-flowered ; bracteoles linear, as long as the pubescent calyx-tube, deciduous ; calvx- 

 lirab 5-4-partite; berry globose. — Bot. Mag. t. 1241. — ^Eugenia, T. ; Myrcia, DC; M. 

 Balbisiana, DC. -. a form with a contracted cyme. Eug. fragraus, Bot. Mag. (tion W.). 

 E. dichotoma, DO. : the common form, with the lateral pedicels exceeding the central 

 flower. — Nearly allied to the preceding, but the leaves less rigid and less shining, not so 

 much variable in the leaves and the inflorescence : the embryo is the same in both. — Leaves 

 2"-li" long, 1" broad : petiole 2"'-3"', lateral pedicels in the expanded form 2"'-3"' long ; 

 flowers 4'", berries 3'" diam. — Hab. Antigua !, Wullschl. ; [Haiti I, French islands !]. 



10. PIMENTA, Lindl. 



Calyx 4-5-lobed : tube turbinate. Petals 4-5. Ovary 3-celled : cells 2- or several-ovu- 

 late. Drupe 1^2-seeded. I'esta membranaceous. Embryo spirally involute, or inflexed : 

 radicle elongated : cotyledons short. — ^Trees ; leaves leathery, black-dotted beneath, long- 

 petioled; ayrats terminal or axillary, trichotomous, many-flowered: flowers pedicellate, or 

 the central ones subsessile. 



44. P. vulgaris, W. A. Branchlets compressed-subtetragonal, glabrate ; leaves oblong, 

 or lauceolate-oblong, glabrous ; veins obsolete above, primary distaut and slightly prominu- 

 lous beneath; cymes compound, corymbiform, usually exserted; calyx k-lobed: tube as 

 long as the ovary; drupe globose; embryo spirally involute. — SI. t. 191./ 1. Hayne 

 Arzn. 10. t. 37.^Myrtus Pimenta, L. ; Eugenia Pimeuta, DO. — 30'-40' high ; leaves 6"- 

 2", petiole 5"'-6"' long ; flowers 3'", drupes 3'" diam. The male Pimento, is a form with 

 the female organs less developed. — Hab. Jamaica !, all coll., common, chiefly on limestone ; 

 [Cuba I, cultivated in many tropical countries], 



A form with the leaves elliptical-oblong, and the calyx-tube produced beyond the ovary. 



