MYRTACEiE. 



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globosa. — Variat: foliis crasso-coriaceis basi rotundatis (ut in spec. 



Benth. descr.), seu ovali-orbiculatis basi acutis apice obtusissimis 



scepius emarginatis, seu tenuioribus ovalibus oblonglsve nunc obtuse 

 acuminatis. 



Eugenia rariflora, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 221. 

 Jossima cotinifolia, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voj. p. 62 ; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 58, 

 excl. syn. 



Hab. Feejee Islands (where it was gathered by Hinds and Barclay) : 

 common on the coasts. Upolu, Samoan Islands. Tahiti, Society- 

 Islands. 



Shrub 4 to 6 feet high; the young branchlets and the nascent 

 foliage pxiberulent with an appressed and fine silky pubescence, gla- 

 brate when old. Leaves coriaceous, sometimes thick, oftener rather 

 thin, glabrous, or occasionally with a fine pubescence on the midrib 

 beneath, shining above, paler and dull underneath, oval or broadly 

 ovate, sometimes verging either to obovate or to oblong, either rounded 

 or acute at the base, obtuse, obtusely someichat pointed or sometimes 

 notched at the apex, rather veiny, the thinner states pellucid-punctate, 

 the thicker with more or less revolute margins, 2 or 3 inches long, 

 and from one to 2§ inches wide; the petiole 2 or 3 lines in length. 

 Pedicels one-flowered, solitary or in 'pairs in the axils of the leaves, or 

 sometimes 4 or 5 together at the summit of the branches, slender, 6 to 14 

 lines long, puberulent, bibracteolate at the apex, and these articulated 

 with the flower. Bractlets subulate, small. Calyx-tube between glo- 

 bose-obovoid and obconical, silky-pvhescent when young ; the limb four- 

 parted almost to the ovary ; the lobes fully as long as the tube, rotund, 

 strongly imbricated in aestivation (two exterior and two interior) 

 unequal, becoming oval or oblong with age. Petals white, oval or 

 oblong, 4 lines long, somewhat exceeding the lobes of the calyx, 

 expanding, deciduous. Stamens very numerous, as long as the petals, 

 uniformly inserted over a broad and flat puberulent disk, free. Style 

 single : stigma entire. Ovary two-celled. Ovules numerous, crowded 

 on axile placentae, angled by mutual pressure, amphitropous. Berry 

 subglobose, glabrous, apparently rather dry, crowned by the persistent 

 lobes of the calyx, from half an inch to three-fourths of an inch in 

 diameter, usually two-celled and two-seeded, when it is often some- 

 what didymous in the dried state and broader than long, or by abor- 





