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Myrtus folio sicbrotundo vulgo Cheken, Feuill. Obs. 3, p. 45, t. 32. 



M. Cheken, Spreng. Syst. 2, p. 85, excl. syn. ("Eugenia Cheken, Molina," non est.) 



Eugenia Chekan & E. ? apiculata, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 276, 278. 



Myrtus Luma, Molina, Stor. Nat. Chil. p. 173, 352 ? baud Gay. 



Var. a. foliis ovalibus oblongisve utrinque acutis; pedunculis plerisque 

 unifloris. 



Eugenia Cheken, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 56, & Bot. Misc. 3, p. 320; 



Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 290. 

 Myrtus Luma, Schauer, in Kel. Meyen. p. 332 ; — itaque 

 M. Molince., Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 381. 



Var. (3. foliis late ovatis rotundisve basi aut acutis aut obtusis vel rotun- 

 datis apice subito cuspidatis ; radicida (an semper?) cotyledonibus 

 vix longiore. 



Myrtus Luma, Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2, p. 484 ? 



Eugenia apiculata, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Misc. 3, p. 321; Gay, Fl. Chil. 1. c. 



(Var. y. foliis obovato-oblongis plerumque cuspidato-acuminatis. 



Eugenia affinis, Gillies, in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 321. 

 E. apiculata, var. Hook. f. adn. in Fl. Antarc. p. 277.) 



(Var. h. foliis ovalibus vix cuspidatis ramulisque glaberrimis. 



Eugenia Gilliesii, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Misc. 3, p. 320.) 



Hab. Chili, near Valparaiso (var. a.) ; and on a mountain 12 miles 

 in the interior, var. (3. 



A shrub or small tree ; the brancldets more or less pubescent, often 

 with rusty hairs. Leaves varying from ovate and roundish-oval to 

 ovate-oblong, sometimes rather obovate, short-petioled, in different 

 forms either acute at both ends or rounded at the base, the apex some- 

 times rounded, but commonly tipped with a sharp cuspidate-acuminate 

 point : they are green both sides, smooth, or glabrate, or with a few 

 hairs, especially on the midrib underneath and on the margins when 

 young, in texture only slightly coriaceous, occasionally thicker, opaque, 

 but somewhat lucid, the midrib salient, the pinnate veins rather 



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