MYRTACEjE. 



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The specimens of this remarkable species are past flowering and 

 with immature fruit. Brandies terete, glabrous, like the whole plant. 

 Leaves chartaceous in texture, some of them obscurely pellucid-punc- 

 tate, rather lucid above, elongated-oblong or elliptical-lanceolate. 6 to 9 

 inches long, about 2 inches wide, very obtuse, subcordate at the base, on 

 a very short petiole (of only a line and a half in length), closely 

 feather- veined ; the primary veins confluent into a lateral vein within 

 the margins. Flowers 6 to 10, or perhaps more, large, sessile, aggre- 

 gated into a terminal, or sometimes axillary, sessile capitulum. Calyx- 

 tube after anthesis 6 or 7 lines long, or later 8 or 9 lines long, cylin- 

 draceous, obtuse at the base, ribbed with 10 or 12 salient nerves, above 

 dilated into an expanded crateriform limb, which becomes an inch in 

 diameter, is lined with a broad and depressed disk, and cleft into 4 

 spreading persistent lobes. Petals and stamens not seen. The per- 

 sistent style 2 to 2£ inches long. Stigma minute. Ovules numerous 

 in each cell. 



Plate 59. — Eugenia (Jambosa) neurocalyx : branches, past flower- 

 ing, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of the calyx and 

 ovary. 2. Transverse section of the ovary, enlarged. 



5. Eugenia (Jambosa) gracilipes, Sp. Nov. 



E. ramulis gracilibus teretibus; foliis subsessilibus lanceolato-oblongis 

 subacuminatis basi parum cordatis chartaceis pellucido-punctatis 

 penninerviis ; pedunculis terminalibus filiformibus folia superantlbus 

 uni-trifloris ; calycis tubo turbinato basi acuto, lobis 4 03qualibus. 



Hab. Feejee Islands, at Sandalwood Bay and Ovolau. 



Apparently a shrub, with slender, terete branches, glabrous. Leaves 

 chartaceous or nearly membranaceous in texture, opposite, lanceolate- 

 oblong, somewhat acuminate, slightly cordate at the base, subsessile (the 

 petiole when manifest only a line long), 2i to 4£ inches long, 12 to 

 18 lines wide, somewhat lucid above, more or less manifestly pellucid- 

 punctate, closely feather-veined, the veins confluent into an indistinct 

 infra -marginal vein. Peduncles terminal, filiform, exceeding the leaves 

 (2 or 3 inches long), one-flowered, or commonly di-trichotomous, with 



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