myrtacej:. 521 



***** Polynesiccn. 

 "j* Flores parvi vel parvuli. 



21. Eugenia (Syzygium) inophylloides, Sp. Nov. 



E. foliis ovalibus oblongisve basi acutis apice subito in acumen obtusum 

 productis coriaceis supra nitidis venis subtransversis tenuibus creber- 

 rime lineato-penninerviis reticulatis in venam margini parallelam 

 confluentibus ; cymis parvis terminalibus foliis brevioribus conferti- 

 floris; calycis margine repando-quadridentato. 



Hab. Tutuila, one of the Samoan or Navigators' Islands ; common 

 on a wooded ridge, at the elevation of 500 feet. 



"A small tree," in foliage, &c., considerably resembling i£ {Syzy- 

 gium, DC.) inophylla, Roxb. Branchlets slender, slightly angled, gla- 

 brous, as is the whole plant. Leaves oval, oblong or elliptical, 2 or 3 

 inches long, 15 to 18 lines wide, very abruptly acuminate into a 

 narrow but obtuse apex of 2 or 3 lines in length, acute or abruptly 

 contracted at the base into a petiole of only 2 or 3 lines long, coria- 

 ceous, shining on the upper surface, the lower dull, nervosely and 

 very closely feather-veined with fine and nearly transverse parallel veins, 

 which are likewise more or less reticulated in narrow areolae, and 

 just within the margin confluent into a rather conspicuous false 

 vein. Cymes terminal, corymbose, short-peduncled, scarcely well 

 developed in the specimens (which bear only flower- buds), but shorter 

 than the leaves, the divisions all very short; the flowers crowded, 

 short-pedicellate ; barely a line and a half long. Calyx turbinate, 

 with a minutely but distinctly repand-four-toothed margin. The 

 inflorescence is too young to ascertain whether the corolla falls off 

 like a lid. Ovules several in each cell. 



22. Eugenia (Syzygium) Brackenridgei, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 61.) 



S. ramis validis; foliis oblongo-cuneatis vel obovatis obtmissimis in 

 petiolum attenuatis crasso-coriaceis supra lucidulis creberr,ime penni- 



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