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according to him, is of the size of a pea, scarlet when ripe, 
and 1-seeded. The leaves in my plant were not fragrant. 
2. Eugenia balsamica. Balsamic Eugenia. 
Pedicels lateral solitary 1-flowered slender sub- 
villous bibracteolated beneath the flower, leaves 
ovate obtuse acuminate, pale punctulated and gla- 
brous beneath, calyx subvillous. — DC. 
Myrtus balsamica, Spreng Syst. II. 481. — Eugenia 
balsamica, Jacq. fragm. t. 45. f. 2. 
II A B. Jamaica? 
FL. 
The ciliated petals are half the length of the stamens. 
3. Eugenia alpina. Alpine Eugenia. 
Pedicels axillary solitary one-flowered shorter 
than the leaf rather thick, leaves ovate coriaceous 
veinless glabrous, branchlets subquaternate erect 
ferruginous. — DC. 
Myrtus alpina, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 8S3. 
II AB* West Peak of the Blue mountain. Swartz. 
F t. November — December. 
A low tree. Leaves very numerous, small, nerveless, 
stiff' like those of the yew, very glabrous, shining, dark 
green : petioles very short. Peduncles scarcely longer 
than the petiole. Flowers minute, white. Calycine lobes 
ovate, obtuse, concave, externally hoary. Petals 4, larger 
than the segments of the calyx. Style subulate : stigma 
acute. Berry 1-seeded, with the seed oblong. 
4. Eugenia emarginala. Emarginate-leaved 
Eugenia. 
Peduncles axillary 1-flowered half the length 
of the leaf solitary, leaves obovate very shortly 
petiolate subemarginate entire thick coriaceous 
paler and minutely punctulated on the under 
surface. 
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