Eugenia..] 
LI. MYRTACE/E. 
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rather numerous. Berry globular, red, of agreeable acid flavour, 3 to 4 lines 
diameter, and 1 -seeded, or oblong with 2 superposed seeds, or broader than long 
or somewhat didymous with 2 collateral seeds, crowned by the calyx-lobes. — 
E. hypospodia, F. v. M. Fragm. v. 15. 
Hab.: Northumberland Islands, R. Brown; Cape York. M'Gillivray ; common on rocks at 
Port Denison and Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; and other similar localities in the tropics. 
The species is very nearly allied to, and perhaps not really distinct from, E. rariflora, Benth. 
in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 221 ; A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. i. 514, t. 60, a species widely 
spread over the S. Pacific Islands, and differing chiefly, as far as known, in its much larger 
fruit. — Benth. 
2. *E. uniflora (one-flowered), Linn. Brazilian Cherry. A bushy, tall 
shrub. Leaves almost sessile, ovate, sublanceolate, glabrous, rather thin and 
pellucid-punctate. Pedicels axillary, usually solitary and 1 -flowered, shorter than 
the leaves. Calyx-lobes 4-reflexed. Fruit globose-torulose. 
Hab.: This South American plant is met with in some localities as a stray from cultivation. 
3. E. Smithii (after Sir J. E. Smith), Poir. Diet. Sup pi. iii. 126; Benth. FL 
Amtr. iii. 282. A tree, sometimes small and slender, but attaining in some 
places a considerable height, quite glabrous. Leaves petiolate, from ovate to 
ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or more or less acuminate, narrowed at 
the base, mostly 2 to 3in. long, smooth and finely penniveined. Flowers small 
and numerous, in a terminal trichotomous panicle, sometimes corymbose and 
shorter than the leaves, sometimes longer and more pyramidal. Bracts minute 
and deciduous. Calyx-tube turbinate, about 1 line long, the free part very much 
broader ; lobes either all very short broad and scarcely prominent, or 1 or 2 
rather larger almost petal-like and deciduous. Real petals 4, united in a small 
flat very deciduous calyptra. Stamens scarcely 1 line long ; anthers small, with 
distinct globular divaricate cells. Ovules rather numerous. Fruit white or 
purple, globular, J to ^-in. diameter, crowned by the circular prominent calyx- 
rim ; endocarp thick and hard. Cotyledons closely combined. — F. elliptica, Sm. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 281, not of Lam.; Bot. Mag. t. 1872; Myrtus Smithii, 
Spreng. Syst. ii. 487 ; Acmena iiorihunda, var. 2, DC. Prod. iii. 262; Bot. Mag. t. 
5480 (wrong as to the petals) ; Syzygium brachynemum, F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 59 
and PI. Viet. Suppl. t. 18 (the petals not quite correct) ; probably also Acmena 
Kincjii, G. Don, Gard. Diet. ii. 851. 
Hab.: Cape York, IF. Hill; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. v. 
Mueller ; Bunya Mountains and many other southern localities. 
The anthers with divaricate cells are, so far as hitherto observed, exceptional in the genus. — 
Benth. 
Wood of a dark colour, close-grained, and tough ; warps in drying. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. ! Foods 
No. 221. 
4. E. hemilampra (one face of leaf glossy), F. r. M. Fragm. ix. 145 (name 
proposed) ; Bail. Bot. Bull. ix. In Moore and Betche’s Handb. of the FI. of 
N.S. W., 207, it is also referred to as a probable form of F. Smithii, but no description 
seems ever to have been published of the flowers or fruit. A tree of large size, 
having a stem diameter of from 1J to 3ft.; the branchlets frequently flattened 
and dark-coloured. Leaves lanceolate or elliptical, obtusely acuminate or almost 
pungent, 3 to 5in. long ; veins fine, numerous, parallel, very oblique, joining in 
an intramarginal one near the edge ; under side more or less light-coloured ; 
upper side dark-green. Oil-dots only visible before a strong light, much more 
obscure and very minute in the southern plant, larger but still somewhat obscure 
in- the northern specimens. Flowers very small and numerous, in a terminal 
trichotomous panicle, which is more developed in the northern than in the 
southern examples. Calyx-border prominent ; teeth very miriute and obscure in 
the flower. Petals mostly cohering and falling off together, tomentose ; the whole 
calyptra about ^ line diameter. Stamens twice as long as the petals ; filaments 
