MYRTACEiE. 



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slender, terete branches and branchlets. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 subacuminate at both ends, or sometimes obtuse, 3 to 5 inches long, 

 rather coriaceous, usually dull and pale both sides, opaque, scarcely 

 punctate, closely feather-veined, the reticulated veins slender but conspi- 

 cuous, especially underneath, oblique, the intramarginal false vein 

 rather obscure. Petiole 2 to 5 lines long. Cymes terminal, decompound, 

 effusely many -flowered, equalling iJie leaves, somewhat paniculate ; the 

 primary and partial peduncles slender, compressed, about an inch long ; 

 the ultimate and penultimate divisions umbellately fascicled : pedicels 

 one or 2 lines long. Bracts and bractlets very caducous, probably 

 minute. Flower-buds globular, scarcely a line in diameter. Calyx 

 with a repandly four-lobed margin. Petals small, cohering in a lid, 

 which falls off in anthesis. Stamens only a line long. Ovules about 

 7 in each cell. Fruit a depressed-globose berry, 3 lines in diameter, 

 one-celled, one-seeded; the margin of the calyx truncate, not pro- 

 duced. Seed globose ; the thick cotyledons peltately attached to the 

 slender included radicle. 



This may be the Eugenia ? panicidata, mentioned but not charac- 

 terized by Forster (Prodr. p. 90, not of Lam.), so far as can be judged 

 from some notes on an imperfect original specimen, although that has 

 nearly sessile leaves. The Syzygium paniculatum of Gsertner, as Mr. 

 Bennett obligingly informs me, is founded neither on Forster's speci- 

 mens, nor on a species from Isle Bourbon, as DeCandolle supposed, 

 but on a widely different plant, of uncertain genus, collected at 

 Botany Bay, by Banks and Solander. 



Plate 62. — Eugenia (Syzygium) Amicorum: a flowering branch, 

 of the natural size. Fig. 1. Flower, the operculate corolla detached. 

 2. Vertical section of a flower-bud. 3. Transverse section of the 

 ovary. 4. Fruit, of the natural size. 5. Transverse section of the 

 same, and of the embryo. 6. The embryo. 7. Same, with the coty- 

 ledons separated. — The analyses magnified. 



26. Eugenia (Syzygium) rubescens, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 63.) 



E. foliis oblongis sen lanceolato-ellipticis utrinque acuminatis subcoriaceis 

 opacis crebre ac temdter penninerviis ; cymis terminalibus paniculato- 

 decompositis patentibus folia multo superantibus ; pedunculis primariis 



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