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tion one-celled and one-seeded. Seed globose, large, filling the cell, 

 with a very thin and membranous testa. Cotyledons very thick and 

 fleshy, conferruminate ; the very short radicle hidden. 



This appears to be a pretty widely diffused, and somewhat variable, 

 Oceanic species, which may have been formerly described under some 

 other name. It has been taken for a Jossinia by Hooker and Arnott, 

 &c, and it accords with Blume's character of that genus, except that 

 the seed has a very thin testa. If the fruit of the genuine Jossinice 

 of Mauritius, &c, be as it is characterized by Blume (in Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Bat. p. 119), that genus is indeed near to Eugenia, and not to 

 be definitely distinguished by either of the characters relied upon. 

 For the lobes of the calyx are imbricated in aestivation in various 

 degrees in numerous American Eugenim, and in some of them the 

 stamens are inserted over a broad disk. — The plate, representing (not 

 particularly well) only one form of this species (that with thick and 

 rounded or emarginate leaves), was not made under my superinten- 

 dence. I have merely added some sections of the fruit. 



Plate 60, A. — Eugenia rariflora (mal.). Fig. 1. A flower-bud, 

 magnified. 2. The same, with part of the calyx and disk cut away, 

 and the petals with most of the stamens removed. 3. The ovary, 

 transversely divided, magnified. 4. Fruit, of the natural size. 5. A 

 two-celled, and 6, a one-celled fruit and seed, transversely divided. 



* * Brasiltenses. (EuGENliE VER^.) 



8. Eugenia uniflora, Linn. 



Eugenia uniflora, Linn. Spec. PI. ed. 1, p. 470; St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 348. 

 E. Michelii, Lain. Diet. 3, p. 203 ; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 263 ; Blume, Mus. Bot. p. 86. 



Hab. Kio Janeiro, Brazil ; common along the shore of the bay. 



9. Eugenia nemoralis, DC. ? 1. c. 

 Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



