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CALVCIFLOR AS. 
Stamens numerous: anthers didymous with a minute 
glandule in the division separating the cells. Style slight- 
ly curved, longer than the stamens : stigma acute. Berry 
size of a small pen, subrotund, of a red colour, one-seeded. 
Seed subrotund, smooth. 
The leaves of this species resemble those of our 
Jamaica Whor tie-berry vaccinium meridionale. The 
flowers are the smallest of our West India species. The 
above description differs from that of Swartz, in respect 
to the calyx according to that Botanist being 4-5-partite 
and the segments acute, and the petals being 4-5, and of 
an ovale figure. 
11. Eugenia glabrata. Glabrous Eugenia . 
Peduncles axillary subsolitary of the same 
length as the petiole, flowers minute crowded, 
leaves lanceolato-elliptic or elliptic wedge-shaped 
at the base subacuminate with the apex rounded 
delicately nerved with the lateral nerves conflu- 
ent near the margin, shining above glabrous 
beneath. 
Myrtus glabrata,Soiar£z, FI. bid. Occ. 903. — DC. Prod. 
III. 274. 
II A B. St. Andrew and Port Royal mountains. Fair- 
field, Manchester. 
FL. June — August. 
A shrub about G feet in height : branches virgultose, 
erect, glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, 1^-2 inches in 
length, and nearly one in breadth: petiole about 2 lines in 
length. Flowers numerous, small, white, crowded, on 
very short filiform pedicels, furnished with a minute ovate 
bractea at the insertion. Bracteoles 2, minute, ovali- 
subrotund. Calycine lobes rounded, very minutely ciliated, 
glanduloso-punctulated. Filaments capillary : anthers 
cordate. Style slightly curved. Berry size of a black 
currant, usually 2-celled : seeds hemispherical. 
12. Eugenia Wallenii. Wallen's Eugenia. 
Peduncles axillary usually 4-flowcrcd shorter 
than the leaves simple minutely ferruginco-to- 
