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30. MYRTACE2E. 
appearance from many places in that neighbourhood where 
former botanists and travellers have described it as forming 
thickets. In some places (Serra d’Agoa, &c.) the yoimg shoots 
and 1. are also used for tanning leather. 
The subv. (M. communis a. romana L. !) with long slender ped. 
considerably longer than the 1., does not occur in Mad. 
The dotted surface of the fossil leaf, figured by Prof. Heer, under 
the name of Pistacia Phaacum p. 32. t. ii. f. 25, forbids entirely 
its reference to Pistacia , or indeed to any pi. of the Order 
TerebinthacecB (see p. 113 supra), and establishes a better claim 
for its reference to Myrtus communis a. latifolia Subv. 1. than 
remains in the impressions ff. 21, 22 of the same plate referred 
by Prof. Heer unhesitatingly to the last-named pi. 
ttt/3. parvifolia (Narrow- or Small-leaved Myrtle) ; 1. not 
above § in. long ovate crowded ; ped. much shorter than the 1. 
The common Garden and Cockscomb Subvarieties of this, 
distinguished at once from a. by the small crowded 1. scarcely 
| in. long and shortly stalked fl., called by the Portuguese 
il Murta da India,” occur frequently in gardens: the former 
(M. communis (3. tarentina L., DC.) rising sometimes into a tr. 
20 ft. high with a trunk 4-9 in. in diam. or 1-3 ft. in circumf. ; 
the latter {M. communis belgica L., DC.), a mere shr., known 
by its monstrously flattened or dilated terminal shoots. 
The u Pitanga,” Eugenia brasiliana (L.), (E. Michelii Lam., 
DC. ; Myrtus Brasiliana L., Plinia rubra L., and P. peduncu- 
lata L. fil. BM. t. 473) with its Myrtle-like habit and fl., and 
elegant pendulous scarlet fr. the size of a large cherry depressed 
.and ribbed like a melon, with a fine acidulous but resinous 
(turpentine) flavour, containing 1 or rarely 2 large flat pale or 
whitish seeds, is also very common in gardens about Funchal, 
bearing profusely almost all the year round. 
ttt 3. Jambosa Humph., DC. 
ttfl. J. vulgaris DC. Roso-applo. Jambociro. 
Panicle cymose terminal ; 1. narrow-lanceolate acuminate at 
each end. — DC. iii. 28(5; 11M. t. 3356. Eugenia Jumbos L. ; 
BM. t. 1690. — Tr. Mad. reg. 1, 2 (lower part), cc. In gardens 
chiefly about Funchal and seminaturalized here and there by 
roadsides, or in waste grounds and hedges. Fl. March-May; 
fr. Aug., Sept. — A fine tr. 20-40 or 50 ft. high, with thick rich 
dark-gr. shining evergreen foliage enlivened in May and June 
