JIYRT ACE/E, 
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white, very fragrant. Peduncle about an inch in length. 
Calyx irregularly 3-4 cleft : divisions rounded, concave, 
internally minutely sericeo puberulous. Petals 5, concave, 
reflected, roundish, oval. Stamens very numerous. 
Ovary turbinate, excavated at the apex ; style truncated 
or awanting. Fruit ? 
II. Myrcia. 
Calycine tube subglobose, very rarely ovate : 
limb 5 partite. Petals 5. Stamens ao , free. 
Ovary 2-3-celled: cells many-ovuled. Berry 
when ripe not unusually 1-2-celled, 1-2-seeded. 
Seeds subglobose, with a thin shell: cotyledons 
leafy, corrugato-contortoplicate. — DC. 
Name from Myrsine, an Athenian damsel, a favorite of 
Minerva, changed by her into a Myrtle. 
1. Myrcia acris. Wild Clove, or Hay-berry 
Myrtle. 
Peduncles axillary and terminal trichotomous 
corymbose longer than the leaf compressed, flow- 
ers 5-fid, leaves elliptic obtuse convex coriaceous 
very glabrous with elevated reticulated veins on 
the upper surface very minutely pcllucido-punc- 
tulated. 
Caryophyllus, aromaticus Indioe occidentalis. Pink. Aim. 
18. t. 155. f. 3. — Caryophyllus, 1. Browne 247, — Myrtus 
acris, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. II. 909 — Myrcia acris DC. 
Prod. III. 243. — Hooker, Bot. Mag. 3153 
II A B. Dry Hills. 
F t. July. 
A tree 30-40 feet in height: bark of a greyish brown 
colour. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolated, 3-5 inches 
long. Panicles axillary, on elongated peduncles : pedun- 
cles compressed : divisions brachiate, each subtended by 
opposite small deciduous bracterc. Calyx punctulated : 
lobes 4-5, obtuse, spreading, downy within. Petals 5, 
nearly orbicular, scarcely clawed. Stamens oo . Ovary 
2-ccllcd: cells 1-ovuled ; style longer than the stamens: 
