MYRTACEJI. 



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10. Myrcia Eriopus, Mart. 



Myrcia Eriopus, Mart, in DC. Prodr. 3, p. 255. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (In fruit.) 

 11. Myrcia spectabilis, DC. 



Myrcia spectabilis, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 248 ; Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 2, p. 299. 

 Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (With undeveloped flowers only.) 



12. Myrcia Browniana, Garchi. 



Myrcia Browniana, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Sour. Bot. 2, p. 354. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil : in forests. 



Gardner collected this striking species in flower only. Our speci- 

 mens have only the full-grown fruit. This is globose, nearly two- 

 thirds of an inch in diameter, containing two proportionally large 

 seeds, with a thin and chestnut-coloured testa : the embryo as in the 

 genus. 



13. Myrcia subsericea, Sp. Nov. 



M. foliis breviter petiolaiis oblongo-lanceolatis semim aeutissime acumi- 

 natis transverse lineato-multinervatis supra glabris subtus ramulisque 

 piibe appressisima argenteo-sericeis nitentibus ; pedunculis petiohim 

 superantibus paucifloris ; floribus sessilibus bracteatis; calyce bracteis- 

 que argenteo-sericeis. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (Foliage, with peduncles, from which 

 the flowers have fallen.) Also gathered by Macrae, with unexpanded 

 flower-buds, and by Pohl (No. 1047). 



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