MYITACE^. 547 



Hab. Singapore : several forms, including the varieties concolor and 

 laxiflora of Blume. 



2. Rhodamnia trinervia, Blume, I. e. 



Myrtus trinervia, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3, p. 280. 



Eugenia? trinervia, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 279. 



Monoxora rubescens, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 219. 



Hab. Sydney, New South Wales : with a smoother and smaller- 

 leaved variety. 



9. NELITRIS, Gcertn. 



1. Nelitris fruticosa. (Tab. 60.) 



N.foliis ovatis sen ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis; pedunculis axillaribus 

 unifloris folio multum brevioribus ; limbo calycis quinquedentato ; 

 fructu decaspermo. 



Decaspermum fruticosum, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 74, t. 37. (Descr. in Guill. Zeph. 



Tait. p. 58.) 

 Psidium Decaspermum, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 252; Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 39. 

 Nelitris Jambosella, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 231, quoad pi. Forst., non Gsertn. 

 Jossinia, aff. J. cassinoidi, Guill. Zeph. Tait. 1. c. ? 



Hab. Tonga Islands : the specimens without flowers or fruit. 

 Feejee Islands : with fruit. Not in the collection from Tahiti (where 

 alone it was gathered by Forster), but perhaps noticed there by Dr. 

 Pickering, as, "Myrtus? A shrub in mountain forests; rare: the 

 fruit red, about the size of a cherry." 



No flowers of this plant were collected. The foliage so closely 

 resembles that of the following species as to suggest that the diffe- 

 rence in inflorescence might be merely sexual, were it not that there 

 are fertile specimens of the latter with cymose-paniculate flowers. 

 Nor can it be the N. Jambosella, Goertn., of Ceylon, which has long 



