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BOX-LEAVED EUGENIA. 
EUGENIA buxifolia, pedunculis axillaribus ramosis multi- 
Jioris brevissimis, pedicellis sub flore bibracteolatis, foliis 
obovato-oblongis obtusis basi attenuatis opacis subtus punc- 
latis margine subrevolutis . — Decand. Prod., vol. 3. p. 275. 
Willd. Sp. pi., vol. 2. p. 960. 
Myrtus buxifolia, racemulis brevissimis confertis axillari- 
bus, foliis cuneatis oblongis obtusis convexiusculis. Swartz, 
Prod. p. 78. Flor. Ind. Occident., vol. 2. p. 899. M. monti- 
cola ? Swartz, Flor. Ind. Occid., vol. 2. p. 898. 
Myrtus axillaris, Poiret, Diet. vol. 4. p. 412, (non Swartz.) 
M. Poireti, Spreng. Syst., vol. 2. p. 483. 
This plant, also a native of Cuba, St. Domingo, and 
Jamaica, has been observed at Key West by Dr. Blod- 
gett, where it is very common in sterile places, affecting 
the vicinity of the sea, and becoming a tree of about 20 
feet in height, with a hard, white, close-grained wood. 
The bark is whitish-grey and even, the twigs are slen- 
der and chiefly clothed with leaves towards their sum- 
mits, they are wedge-oblong, sometimes almost lanceo- 
late, obtuse, and always narrowed below into a minute 
petiole, so that they appear to be nearly sessile, above 
of a darkish green and somewhat shining, beneath dull 
and paler, slenderly nerved beneath, somewhat opaque, 
punctate and slightly revolute on the margin, they are 
about lj inches long by i to f of an inch wide. The 
flowers are very small, in axillary branching clusters of 
3 to 7 together on the minute and very short bracteate 
raceme; there are 2 minute bracteoles under each 
flower; the calyx as well as the petals are studded with 
resinous glands, and the latter are more than twice the 
