MYBTACEiE. l\U 



mentulose, calycine lobe^ and bractea acute, 

 leaves ovato-lanceolate attenuato-acuminate shin- 

 ing sparingly puberulous. 



II A B. Cold-Spring, and Wallenford. 



FL. August — October. 



A shrubby tree, about 12 feet in height : branches fas- 

 tigiate, virgultose, slender, slightly compressed at the end, 

 ferrugineo-tomentose. Leaves stiff, shining, bluntish, 

 with an apicula, minutely puberulous especially along the 

 under surface of the mid-rib, obscurely nerved with the 

 nerves anastomosing near the margin, entire, 2 inches in 

 length and scarcely more than half an inch in breadth: 

 petiole short. Flowers small, white, fragrant. Peduncle 

 about half an inch in length, sub-4-agonal, ferrugineo- 

 puberulous : pedicels the two lower ones usually opposite, 

 filiform, each furnished at the insertion with a minute ovate 

 acute bractea. Bracteoles a pair, ovate, apiculato-acu- 

 minate, appressed to the calyx. Calycine lobes 4 : the 

 two outer opposite, rather smaller, lounded, acuminsto- 

 apiculated : the 2 inner rounded ; externally ferrugineo- 

 puberulous, ciliated. Petals 4, roundish, concave, minutely 

 ciliated, glanduiosopunctulated. Stamens numerous. 

 Style subulate. 



I have dedicated this plant to the memory of the late 

 Matthew Wallen, Esquire, the friend of Swartz, and 

 formerly the owner of the properties on which this plant 

 was found. 



* * # Peduncles axillary bifid or dichotomous 

 with the flowers in the fork sessile, and the 

 others pedicelled. 



13. Eugenia dichotoma. Dichotomous Eu- 

 genia. 



Peduncles axillary opposite and subterminal 

 length of the leaves bifid or twice bifid with a 

 sessile flower at each bifurcation and the rest pe- 

 dicelled, leaves elliptico-lanceolate pellucido-punc- 

 tulated, the young branchlets peduncles and pe- 

 tioles pubercent. 



DC, Prod. III. 278. 



