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LI. MYRTACEJL 
[Eugenia. 
Sect. III. Jambosa,.— Flowers in trichotomous panicles or cymes. Calyx-tube more or less 
produced above the ovary , prominently lobed ; the lobes usually persistent. Petals free and 
spreading. 
(This section, like Syzyyium , is limited to the Old World, excepting where naturalised from 
cultivation. — Benth.) 
Flowers in divaricate trichotomous cymes or panicles, lateral on the stem. 
Fruit oval, usually white, nearly 2in. long II. E. cormiflora. 
Flowers on the thick branches, in short stout trichotomously-branched 
panicles. Calyx-tube white, longitudinally corrugated. Fruit ovoid, 
3Jin. long, pinkish-white 12. E. Hislopii. 
Peduncles terminal. Cymes of few large fragrant flowers. Fruit bright- 
red, globose, about ljin. diameter .* . 13. E. Hodgkinsonim. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, about 2 lines long. Stamens scarcely above Jin. 
long. Fruit nearly globular, red 14. E. Tierneyana. 
Flowers large, in terminal panicles. 
Leaves broad, obtuse, coriaceous. Calyx-tube sessile, about 3 lines 
long ; lobes short. Fruit white, large 15. E. grandis. 
Leaves about 3in. long, ovate-lanceolate. Fruit about lin. diameter, 
red, 1-seeded 16. E. Johnsoni. 
Leaves large. Calyx-tube 5 lines long, tapering into a thick pedicel. 
Fruit globose or oblong, 2in. or more long 11. E. suborbicularis. 
Flowers in dense terminal cymes. Calyx-tube narrow-clavate. Stamens 
purple, about lin. long. Leaves long 18. FI. Wilsonii. 
Flowers in terminal corymbose cymes or elongated bi-trichotomous panicles, 
1 to ljin. long in the axils. Calyx-tube with pedicel 3 lines long. Style 
slender, slightly exceeding the stamens 19. E. fibrosa. 
Bark peeling off in thin papery cinnamon-brown flakes. Leaves lanceo- 
late, 2 to 3in. long. Fruit transversely oval, succulent, 2in. broad, 
ljin. high 20. E. Bungadinnia. 
Leaves long, narrow, very obliquely and irregularly veined. Fruit pear- 
shaped, red or rosy, 1 to ljin. long 21. E. eucalyptoides. 
Flowers few in axillary cymes. Calyx-lobes large. Fruit red, ovoid or 
globular, crowned by the calyx-limb 22. E. p>aniculata. 
Leaves very prominently punctate. Flowers in terminal or axillary 
short panicles. Fruit bright-red, fin. diameter, lobed at top .... 23. E. punctulata. 
Leaves under 3in. long, J to fin. broad. Flowers few, in short head-like 
racemes. Stamens under 3 lines long 24. E. sordida. 
Leaves 3 to 5in. long, J to lin. broad, blunt-lanceolate. Panicle terminal. 
Calyx somewhat hoary ; lobes 1 line long. Petals twice as long. 
Stamens twice as long 25. E. macoorai. 
Leaves 1J to 2 Jin. long, about ljin. broad, the points much protracted. 
Panicle thyrsoid. Flowers small. Calyx-lobes roundish. Petals twice 
as long as calyx-lobes 26. E. Luehmanni. 
Flowers sessile, small, in corymbose terminal panicles. Calyx turbinate- 
campanulate, under 2 lines long, 5-lobed 21. E. Angophoroides. 
Flowers in slender trichotomous cymes, opposite on young shoots, or in 
terminal pairs. Calyx-lobes very small 28. E. oleosa. 
Leaves sessile, 1 to 2Jin. long, with long point* Flowers small, from 2 
to 4 together between terminal leaves. Petals 1J line. Stamens 4 
lines long. Fruit red 29. E. apodophylla. 
Branchlets 4-angled. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate. Peduncles 4-angular. 
Petals hardly expanding. Fruit small, globular, 1-seeded 30. E. hedraiophylla. 
Branchlets nearly terete. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, veins immersed, 2 to 4in. long, glaucous, 
young growth scarlet. Flowers in cymes or racemes 31. E. cryptophlebia. 
Leaves broad, almost triplinerved. Flowers white, remarkable for 
their long slender stamens 32. E. Dallachiana. 
1. E. carissoides (Carissa-like), F. v. M. Frat/m. iii. 130; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 282. A shrub, with short divaricate glabrous branches. Leaves 
shortly petiolate, ovate orbicular or almost rhomboidal, very obtuse, f to ljin. 
long, coriaceous, irregularly penniveined and loosely reticulate. Flowers solitary 
or 2 together at the old nodes, nearly sessile or on pedicels 2 or more lines long. 
Calyx glabrous or minutely pubescent ; tube campanulate, about 1 line long, not 
produced above the ovary ; lobes 4, nearly orbicular, persistent, about as long as 
the tube. Petals 4, spreading and falling off separately. Anthers short. Ovules 
