A MANUAL FLORA 
OF 
MADEIRA. 
PART III. 
Order XXX. MYRTACE^E. 
The Myrtle Family. 
FI. perfect regular. Cal.-tube adnate to the ovary 4-6-lobed 
mostly 5-lobed, the lobes valvate in bud, sometimes cohering 
and falling off like a cap or calyptra. Pet. as many as and 
alternate with sep. quincuncially imbricate or convolute. Stam. 
numerous or twice as many as pet., free or partially combined ; 
anthers simple ovate, cells bursting longitudinally. Carpels 
4-6 mostly 5 concrete coated by the cal. Style 1. Fr. va- 
rious. Seeds without albumen ; cot. fleshy not convolute. — Tr. 
or shr. L. mostly opposite entire with a marginal nerve, without 
stipules, pellucid- or glandular-dWec? (except in Psidium, Euca- 
lyptus, &c.), mostly aromatic. FI. mostly white or purple. 
Tribe I. MYRTEJE. 
The Myrtle Tribe. 
Sep. and pet. 4-5. Stam. free. Fr. berry- or drupe-like. 
ttfl- Psidium. Cal.-tube globose or turbinate, the limb or 
rim broad undivided in hud, afterwards irregularly split 
2-5-fid. Pet. 5. Stam. many inserted on nearly the 
whole breadth of the cal. -limb in a broad ring. Ovary 
5-20-celled, cells imperfectly or partially 2-partite by a 
double-edged placenta. Fr. a pome-like fleshy or pulpy 
many-seeded berry coated by the cal.-tube and crowned 
by its limb, the cells and partitions more or less obliterated. 
Seeds rather small imbedded somewhat irregularly in the 
pulp with a very hard bony shell $ radicle longer than the 
very small cot. — Chiefly S. American tropical tr. or shr. L. 
opposite not dotted. Ped. axillary 1-3-5-fl. FI. white. 
Fr. sapid eatable pulpy within, with a fleshy pungent - 
aromatic rind (cal.-tube). 
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