white, very fragrant. Peduncle about an inch in length- 

 Calyx irregularly 3-4 cleft : divisions rounded, concave, 

 internally minutely sericco puberulous. Petals 5, concave, 

 reflected, roundish, ova!. Stamens very numerous, 

 Ovary turbinate, excavated at the apex : style truncated 

 or awanting. Fruit ? 



II. Myrcia. 



Calycine tube subglobose, very rarely ovate : 

 limb 5 partite. Petals 5. Stamens oo , free. 

 Ovary 2-3-celled : cells many-ovuled. Berry 

 when ripe not unusually 1-2-celled, 1-2-seeded. 

 Seeds subglobose, with a thin shell: cotyledons 

 leafy, corrugato-contortoplicate. — DC. 



Name from Myrsine, an Athenian damsel, a favorite of 

 Minerva, changed by her into a Myrtle. 



1. Myrcia acris. Wild Clove, or Bay-bemj 

 Myrtle. 



Peduncles axillary and terminal trichotomous 

 corymbose longer than the leaf compressed, flow- 

 ers 5-fid, leaves elliptic obtuse convex coriaceous 

 very glabrous with elevated reticulated veins on 

 the upper surface very minutely pellucido-punc- 

 tulated. 



Caryophyllus, aromaticus India3 occidentalis, Pluk. Aim. 

 18. t. 155. f. 3. — Caryophyllus, 1. Browne 217, — Myrtus 

 acris, Swartz, Ft. Ind. Occ. II. 900 — Myrcia acris DC. 

 Prod. III. 243.— Hooker, Bot. Mag. 3153 



IIAB. Dry Hills. 

 FL. July. 



A tree 30-40 feet in height : bark of a greyish brown 

 colour. Leaves opposite, shortly pctiolatecl, 3-5 inches 

 long. Panicles axillary, on elongated peduncles : pedun- 

 cles compressed : divisions brachiate, each subtended by 

 opposite small deciduous bractece. Calyx punctulated : 

 lobes 4-5, obtuse, spreading, downy within. Petals 5, 

 nearly orbicular, scarcely clawed. Stamens oo . Ovary 

 2-celled : cells 1-ovuled ; style longer than the stamens: 



