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CALYCIFLORA2. 
II A B. Port Royal Mountains, Bridge-liill and Bellvue 
woods. 
F L. May. 
A tree, about 15 feet in height: branches compressed, 
minutely puberulous. Leaves about an inch and a half 
in length, and nearly one in breadth, elliptic, subacuminate 
with the apex blunt, attenuated at the base, subentire, gla- 
brous, shining above : petiole about 2 lines in length, pu- 
berulous. Peduncles axillary, about the length of the 
leaf, compressed, dichotomous with a sessile flower at the 
bifurcation : pedicels terete, previous to the opening of 
the flower sericeo-pubescent. Bracteoles appressed to 
the calyx, oblong, foliaceous. Calycine lobes obtuse, cili- 
ated, glanduloso-punctulated. Stamens numerous : fila- 
ments delicately capillary. Style erect, declinate. Fruit 
globular, size of a pea, 2-3-celled. 
This description differs from the characters given by 
DeCandolle. 
14. Eugenia bracteata. Bracteated Eugenia . 
Peduncles axillary and subterminal longer than 
twice the length of the leaf dichotomously 
branched with a sessile flower at the bifurcation 
and with the lateral flowers pedicelled, berry bilo- 
cular with the locules 2-3-seeded, leaves elliptic 
very shortly acuminate, subacute at the base, gla- 
brous entire, petiole short puberulous. 
II A B. Port Royal mountains. 
F L. July. 
A low tree : branches terete, rough, ferruginous, to- 
wards the end compressed and minutely puberulous. 
Leaves decussating, dark green above, paler and pelluci- 
do-punctate beneath ; with the nerves indistinct and par- 
allel : petiole slightly channelled. Peduncle twice the 
length of the leaf, with the branches divaricating com- 
pressed and minutely puberulous. Flowers white, fra- 
grant, with a pair of bracteae at each division of the pe- 
duncle, and a pair of bracteoles to each flower : bracteoles 
oblongo-lanceolate, puberulous. Calycine divisions 4, 
ovate, concave, blunt, puberulous. Petals 4, roundish, 
concave. Stamens very numerous, about twice the length 
of the petals. Style declinate, and curved. Berry 2- 
