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SMALL-LEAVED EUGENIA. 
bling a Myrtle, becomes, at Key West, according to 
Dr. Blodgett, a tree. It is also indigenous to the islands 
of St. Domingo and Cuba, where specimens have been 
collected by Poiteau and La Sagra. The variety 
fragrans , for such I must consider it, is a native of the 
high mountains in the southern part of Jamaica and 
Martinique, and if the same with Aublet’s E. montana it 
is also a native of Guiana. The E. fragrans has many 
years since been collected by Dr. Baldwyn, in the vicinity 
of New Smyrna in East Florida. 
The wood of E. divaricata, according to Lamarck, is 
hard, close grained and reddish, and is much esteemed 
for articles of furniture. The wood of the Florida tree 
is exactly similar, while that of E. montana, according to 
Aublet, is hard, compact and white. 
The branches of the plant now figured are covered 
with a smooth light grey or silvery bark, and at the 
summits are crowded with small shining almost opaque 
leaves, but yet interspersed with the usual resinous 
vesicles of the genus; they are from an inch to an inch 
and a half in length, and about three-quarters of an inch 
in breadth, mostly elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, and always 
narrowed below; sometimes they are nearly lanceolate 
and obtuse at the point; scarcely any veins are visible 
on either side, but the mid-rib is prominent beneath. 
The young leaves, buds, peduncles and calyx are clothed 
with a close, short, hoary pubescence, which in the 
variety fragrans is much less distinct or almost wanting. 
The peduncles are axillary, coming out towards the 
summits of the branches, and are of various lengths, 
sometimes only a little longer than the leaves, at other 
times crowded into trichotomous branchlets, two or three 
times longer than the leaves; in their most simple form, 
except by the abortion of the lateral buds, they termi- 
nate in three flowers, the central one sessile in the fork, 
