MYRTACE^. 509 



ramifications terete, spreading, rather stout : pedicels very short. 

 Flowers very numerous; the buds obovoid-turbinate, thick, 4 lines long, 

 including the pedicelliform base. Calyx very fleshy, produced beyond 

 the ovary ; the truncate thin margin repandly someicJiat four-lobed ; 

 the lobes short and broad, doubtless deciduous. Corolla rather large, 

 falling off as a lid in anthesis. Stamens very numerous, 5 or 6 lines 

 long. Ovary two-celled ; the cells several-ovuled. Fruit not seen. 



This is certainly a Syzygium, and a well-marked and peculiar 

 species, with its lineately-veined leaves not unlike 'those of a Ghisia 

 in appearance. A sterile shoot perhaps of this species was gathered 

 at Tongatabu. 



Plate 65. — Eugenia (Syzygium) clusi^efolia : a branch, in flower, 

 of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower-bud, with the corolla becoming 

 detached. 2. Vertical section of a flower. 3. Transverse section of 

 the ovary. — The details magnified. 



29. Eugenia (Syzygium?) Tutuilensis, Sp. Nov. 



E. foliis oblongis seu ellipticis utrinque subobtusis chartaceis crebre penni- 

 nerviis, venis intra marginem in venam falsam nunc duplicem con- 

 fluentibus; eyma terminali pluriflora foliis breviore; alabastris (par- 

 vulls) haud pedicellatis obovatis; calycis limbo breviter quadrilobo. 



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



There is 6nly a miserable specimen in the collection, with unex- 

 panded flowers. Branches terete. Leaves 5 to 7 inches long, 2 or 3 

 inches wide, chartaceous in texture, glabrous, as is the whole plant, 

 somewhat lucid, oblong or elliptical, obtuse at both ends, or abruptly 

 somewhat contracted at the apex into a very obtuse and short acumi- 

 nation, closely feather-veined; the veins straight, sparingly reticulated, 

 connected within the margin by a false vein, and often with another 

 less distinct one close to the margin. Petioles 4 or 5 lines long. 

 Cyme terminal, small, rather simple, raised on a peduncle nearly an 

 inch long, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers sessile in threes or 

 fives at the extremity of the divergent partial peduncles. Floicer- 

 buds obovate, with an acute base, only 3 lines long ; the limb of the 



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