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PHANEROGAMIA. 



There are besides incomplete and indeterminable specimens of two 

 or three more Eugenice in the Brazilian collection. 



§ 3. SYZYGIUM, Gsertn., excl. spec. {Syzygium & Acmena, DC., Endl. Syllysium, 

 Meyen & Schauer.) — Calyx tubo turbinate obovato vel clavato, fauce ultra ovarium 

 modice producta, margine repando-truncato vel subquadrilobo. Petala in calyptram 

 pi. m. coalita, sub anthesi dejecta, rariusve expansa sed caduca, interdum abortha. 



Seminis testa tenuis. 



Only a slight artificial character separates Acmena of DeCandolle 

 from Syzygium, and that an inconstant one in certain species, which 

 cast off their petals indifferently either before or at the time of expan- 

 sion. If Acmena be retained as a subgenus, therefore, it were doubt- 

 less better to refer to it, as Wight has done, species which throw 

 off their corolla unexpanded, but which have the elongated calyx- 

 tube. Acmena would thus constitute a group between Clavimyrtus 

 and Syzygium, but passing by continuous gradations into the latter. 



* Novo- Holland icce- ; petalis parvis in anthesin expansis. (Acmena, DC.) 



16. Eugenia (Acmena) Smithii, Poir. 



Eugenia Smithii, Poir. Diet. Suppl. 3, p. 127. 

 E. elliptica, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3, p. 281, non Lara. 

 Metrosideros fioribunda, Smith, 1. c. p. 267; Vent. Hort. Malm. t. 75. 

 Acmena Jloribunda, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 262. 



Hab. Sydney, New South Wales. (In flower.) 



* * Novo-Zelandicoe ; ftoribus forte polygamis, petalis nonnunquam expansis. 



17. Eugenia (Syzygium) Maire, A. Cunn. 



Eugenia Maire, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal, in Ann. Nat. Hist. 2, p. 115; Hook. f. Fl. 



N. Zeal. p. 71. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



The specimens, in flower only, appear to have sterile ovaries, 



