myrtacejE. 121 



celled : cells 2-seeded. 



To the taste, the leaves are acrid with an aromatic 

 warmth. This plant is evidently nearly related to the 

 preceding. 



15. Eugenia fragrans. Fragrant Eugenia. 



Peduncles axillary dichotomously branched 

 with a sessile flower at the bifurcation twice the 

 length ol the leaf, leaves elliptic rounded or suba- 

 cuminate at the apex shining above slightly con- 

 cave and punctulated beneath, arboreous. 



Myrtus fragrans, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 914 ? 



HAB. Port Royal mountains. Road from Green- 

 Valley to Old England. 



FL. 



A tree about 50 feet in height : stem straight, 

 smooth : branches towards the end subtetragonal, com- 

 pressed, puberulous, glanduloso-punctulated. Leaves de- 

 cussating, rounded, retuse, or subacuminate with a blunt 

 point at the apex, entire, obscurely veined : petiole short. 

 Peduncles solitary. Bractese linear, appressed. Flowers 

 size of those of the common myrtle, white, very fragrant, 

 shortly pedicelled, with a pair of linear bracteoles ap- 

 pressed to the calyx. Calycine lobes 4, concave : the 

 two outer subacute ; the two inner rounded. Petals 

 rotundo-ovate, concave, spreading, white, glanduloso- 

 punctulated, deciduous. Stamens numerous. Style subu- 

 late, declinate : stigma acute. Berry globular, 1-seeded. 



This forms a very beautiful tree. It is remarkable for 

 its straight erect stem, sending off no branches until it has 

 attained a considerable height. It may be mistaken for 

 the mountain guava, from the resemblance of the stem, the 

 bark of which, as also that of the Pimento, is remarkably 

 smooth and of a grey ferruginous colour. — The above 

 description differs so much from that of Swartz, that the 

 identity of the plants may be doubted. 



# * # # Peduncles racemoso-cymose panicled, 



axillary or terminal. 



16. Eugenia viigata. Rod- Wood. 



Racemes axillary and terminal shorter than 



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