516 PHANEROGAMIA. 



of Smith, who has well described the foliage, &c. Our specimen bore 

 only one or two small fruits, not larger than a pepper-corn, containing 

 2 or 3 roundish-reniform, not strongly incurved seeds ; the embryo as 

 in Myrtus or Rhodomyrtus. Perhaps it might be referred to the latter 

 genus, although the leaves are strictly one-nerved ; but, as well as I 

 can ascertain, the ovary appears to have been completely two-celled, 

 and without any evident dorsal partitions. 



7. RHODOMYRTUS, DC. 



Myrtus sect. Rhodomyrtus, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 241. 



Rhodomyrtus, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 220 ; Wight, Spicil. Nielgh. 

 1, p. 59, t. 71 ; Blume, Mus. Bot, Lugd.-Bat. p. 76. 



1. Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, Wight, I. c. 



Myrtus tomentosa, Ait.; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 250; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 522, & 

 111. Ind. Bot. 2, t. 97. 



Hab. Singapore. 



The true internal structure of the ovary was first indicated by 

 Mr. Benth am, in the London Journal of Botany, above-cited. Per- 

 haps the genus may be again reduced to a section of Myrtus, of which 

 it has the embryo. 



8. RHODAMNIA, Jack. 



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Rhodamnia, Jack, in Malay. Misc. & Hook. Coinp. Bot. Mag. 1, p. 153; Blume, 



Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 78. 

 Monoxora, Wight, 111. Ind. Bot. 2, t. 122, & Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 2. t. 524. 



1. Rhodamnia cinerea, Jack. I. c. 



Monoxora spectahilis, Wight, 1. c; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 219, non 



Rhodam. spectab., Blume ? 

 Myrtus smilacifoUa, Wall. Cat. no. 3629. 



