118 CALYCIFL0R.13. 



Stamens numerous : anthers didymous with a minute 

 glandule in the division separating the cells. Style slight- 

 ly curved, longer than the stamens : stigma acute. Berry 

 size of a small pea, subrotund, of a red colour, one-seeded. 

 Seed subrotund, smooth. 



The leaves of this species resemble those of our 

 Jamaica Whirtle-berry vacctxium meridionale. The 

 flowers are the smallest of our West India species. The 

 above description differs from that of Swartz, in respect 

 to the calyx according to that Botanist being 4-5-partite 

 and the segments acute, and the petals being 4-5, and of 

 an ovate figure. 



11. Eugenia glabrata. Glabrous Eugenia. 



Pe.Iuncles axillary suhsolitary of the same 

 length as the petiole, flowers minute crowded, 

 leaves lanceolato-elliptic or elliptic wedge-shaped 

 at the base subacuminate with the apex rounded 

 delicately nerved with the lateral nerves conflu- 

 ent near the margin, shining above glabrous 

 beneath. 



Myrtus glabrata,Stoarte, Fl. Lid. Occ. 903.— DC. Prod. 

 III. 274. 



HAB. St. Andrew and Port Royal mountains. Fair- 

 field, Manchester. 



F L. June — August. 



A shrub about 6 feet in height : branches virgultose, 

 erect, glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, 1 \-2 inches in 

 length, and nearly one in breadth : petiole about 2 lines in 

 length. Flowers numerous, small, white, crowded, on 

 very short filiform pedicels, furnished with a minute ovate 

 bractea at the insertion. Bracteoles 2, minute, ovali- 

 subrotund. Calycine lobes rounded, very minutely ciliated, 

 glanduloso-punctulated. Filaments capillary: anthers 

 cordate. Style slightly curved. Berry size of a black 

 currant, usually 2-celled : seeds hemispherical. 



12. Eugenia Wallenii. Wallen's Eugenia. 



Peduncles axillary usually 4-flowered shorter 

 than the leaves simple minutely ferrugineo-to- 



