BreENiA.] MYBTAC:EJS. 341 



Flowers usually regular and hermaplirodite, axillary, solitary or in 

 spikes, cymes, corymbs or heads, often with 2 tracts at the 

 base. Califx superior or ^-superior, limb 4-5-many-fid or-partite, 

 persistent or deciduous, valvate or imbricate, sometimes entire or closed 

 m bud. Petals inserted on a disk surrounding the cavity of the calyx, 

 equal in number to the calyx-lobes and alternate with them, rarely 0. 

 Stamens usually many, inserted with the petals in several rows ; 

 filaments free or connate at the base or in bundles opposite the 

 petals. Ovary inferior ^r |- inferior, crowned by a fleshy disk, usually 

 2- many-celled and many-ovuled. Fruit usually crowned with the 

 calyx-limb, either 1-ceIled and l-seeded by arrest, or 2.many-ceried 

 with loculicidal or septicidal dehiscence ; or baccate and indehiscent 

 with the cells many-seeded or 1-seeded by arrest. Seeds angular 

 cylindric or compressed, albumen 0. — Species about 2,800, in the 

 tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres. 



Leaves opposite, gland-dotted • . .1, Eugenia. 



Leaves alternate, not gland-dotted. 

 Stamens all perfect, fruit angular, 

 1-seeded 2. Barringtonia. 



Inner and outer stamens without anthers ; 

 fruit globose, many-seeded . . .3. Careya. 



1. EUGENIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind., ii, 472. 



■ Trees or shrubs, smooth or rarely tomentose or villous. Leaves 

 opposite, rarely alternate, coriaceous or membranous, pinnate-nerved. 

 Floivers solitary and axillary or in short racemes (leafless branches), 

 or in dense terminal cymes, or in terminal or lateral 3-chotomous 

 panicles. Bracts usually small and deciduous,. Calyx-tuhe globose 

 or more or less elongate ; lobes 4 rarely 5. Petals 4 rarely 5 or 

 more or 0, free and spreading or united in a calyptra. Stamens 

 many, in many rows, free or slightly combined into 4 bundles, 

 filaments filiform ; anthers small, versatile, bursting longitudinally. 

 Ovary 2- rarely 3-celled ; stigm,a small ; ovules many in each cell. 

 Berry drupe-like, rarely dry and fibrous, crowned with the persistent 

 calyx-limb. Seeds few, globose, compressed. — Species about 650, 

 ■chiefly in Trop. America and Asia, a few in Trop. Africa and 

 Australia. 



Leaves broadly ovate or oblong. 



Leaves sub coriaceous, lateral nerves 

 distant , 1. E. operculata. 



