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CALYCIFLORiE. 



II A B. Near the Moneague. Dr. Alexander. 



F L. February. 



A shrub : branches spreading, of a ferruginous colour, 

 glabrous, slightly rough from minute asperities. Leaves 

 about an inch and a half long, and rather more than an 

 inch broad, subacute at the base, rounded and usually 

 emarginate at the apex : petioles about 2 lines in length. 

 Peduncle an inch in length, minutely appresso-puberulous. 

 Bracteoles early deciduous. Calyx persistent, 4-lobed 

 with the lobes rounded. 



5. Eugenia rotundifolia. Round-leaved Eu- 

 genia. 



Peduncles axillary 1-2-flowered of nearly the 

 same length as the leaf solitary, leaves rounded 

 subsessile crenulated with the crenatures rather 

 obscure coriaceous glabrous minutely punctul- 

 ated especially beneath. 



H A B. St. Anns. Mr. Purdie. 

 FL. 



A shrub, with branches ferruginous, glabrous. Leaf 

 about an inch in diameter. Peduncle about an inch in 

 length, compressed, bearing 1-2 very shortly-pedicelled 

 flowers. Calyx 4-fid, persistent, rounded. Berry I- 

 celled, 1-seeded. 



This plant resembles the Eugenia crenclata of Swartz, 

 a native of Hayti. It differs however in the peduncle 

 being scarcely longer than the petiole, whereas in the 

 Jamaica plant it is of the length of the leaf. With this ex- 

 ception the descriptions agree. 



* * Flowers axillary subsessile, or fasciculato- 

 glomerated in the axils, and shortly pedun- 

 cled. 



Eugenia 



disticha. Distichal Eugenia. 



Peduncles axillary branched 3-5 flowered very 

 short, leaves distichal ovato-lanceolate acute gla- 

 brous, lateral nerves confluent within the margin, 

 calycine lobes 4, stigma uncinate. — DC. 



