MYRTACEiE. 543 



Hab. Chili ; on a mountain ridge, about twelve miles south of Val- 

 paraiso. 



The flowering plant is well described by Hooker and Arnott. The 

 flowers are larger than in any of the foregoing species. The persis- 

 tent bractlets are sometimes connate with the base of the calyx. 

 The berry is obovoid, 5 or 6 lines long, ripening 3 or more seeds. 

 Cotyledons strongly complicate and contortuplicate, thin and folia- 

 ceous. Radicle truncate at the end (as in L. Gheken /?.), very long, 

 nearly encircling the cotyledons. The character of the embryo is 

 best shown by the analyses given on plate 66. 



Plate 66, B. — Luma corre^efolia. Fig. 18. Vertical section of a 

 fruit (the parts of the flower persistent) and of two contained seeds. 

 19. Embryo, detached. 20. Transverse section of the same, cutting 

 twice through the radicle. — Magnified. 



6. MYRTUS, Tourn. 



1. EUMYRTUS. — Filamenta indefinita filiformia : antherce didi/mce medio ajjixce. 

 Ovarium hi— triloculare, placentis ex angulo interno loculorum projectis. 



1. Myrtus communis, Linn. 



Hab. Madeira. A narrow-leaved form : nearly the variety Lusi- 

 tanica. 



2. Myrtus bullata, Banks & Soland. 



Myrtus bullata, Banks & Solander, Ic. & Ms. ; A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal, in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. 3, p. 115; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 557 ; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 70. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (In fruit.) 



I do not possess the flowers. The fruit and seeds, which are those 

 of a true Myrtus, are well represented by Hooker, in the plate above 

 cited. 



