SMALL-LEAVED EUGENIA. 
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and the lateral ones are longish diverging pedicels; at 
other times the peduncles are twice trifid, or even more 
ramified, and lengthened out very much in the progres- 
sive ripening of the fruit. The segments of the calyx 
are always four, broad and rounded, covered with resi- 
nous cists or vesicles, and pubescent or ciliate on the 
margins. The petals are likewise rounded or concave, 
whitish, with a tinge of red. The stamens are numerous. 
Style simple and subulate. The berry at length only 
1-seeded. There are a pair of minute subulate bractes 
under the base of each flower bud, but so deciduous that 
they are seldom to be seen. 
One of the specimens of the variety f Vagrans from 
New Smyrna has very slender twigs; and on the same 
specimen there are obtuse and very sharply acute leaves. 
In this also the peduncles are chiefly axillary. This 
plant is nearly as fragrant as the common Myrtle. 
Plate XXVII. 
A branch of the natural size a. The flower a little enlarged. 
h. The berry, of the natural size. 
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