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half an inch in length, opposite, terete, puberulous, each 

 furnished at the insertion with a small ovate bractea. A 

 pair of minute broad-ovate ciliated bracteoles below the 

 calyx. Flowers numerous, showy, white, tinged with 

 rose colour. Calyx minute, externally puberulous, 4- 

 cleft : divisions sub-equal, rounded, spreading. Petals 

 obovate, rounded, minutely concave, glanduloso-punctul- 

 ated. Stamens longer than the petals. Style erect, longer 

 than the stamens. Berry spherical, purple, rather dry, 

 crowned with the calycine segments, 2-3-seeded. Seeds 

 hemispherical. 



The terminal racemes are usually as long as the leaves 

 and are fasciculato-panicled. The petals are very deci- 

 duous, and disappear after a shower of rain. The tree is 

 a very beautiful object when in flower. 



18. Eugenia acutiloba. Sharp-lobed Eugenia. 



Racemes axillary 7-flowered shorter than the 

 leaf simple, peduncle and its divisions subhirsute, 

 bractese and calycine lobes acute, leaves ovali- 

 oblong attenuated at the base acuminate pelluci- 

 do-punctate, the upper surface when young sub- 

 villose, when old glabrous impunctate, the under 

 surface pale pubescenti-villous. — DC* 



DC. Prod. III. 281. 



HAB. Port Royal mountains^ 

 FL. July. 



A shrubby tree, about 12 feet in height: slightly com- 

 pressed, glabrous, of a ferruginous colour. Leaves ob- 

 long, acute at the base, attenuato-acuminate with the apex 

 sharp, nerved, pellucido-punctate ; when young slightly 

 villous, when old glabrous on the upper surface ; pubes- 

 centi-villous with appressed hairs beneath. Racemes 

 7-9 flowered : flowers opposite, pedicelled, each furnished 

 with an appressed bractea at the insertion'. Bracteoles 

 2, ovate, acute. Calyx externally ferrugineo-villous : 

 divisions acute. 



19. Eugenia dumosa. Savannah Eugenia. 

 Racemes axillary and subterminal shorter than 



