MYRTACE-iE. 
121 
celled : cells 2-seeded. 
To the taste, the leaves are acrid with an aromatic 
warmth. This plant is evidently nearly related to the 
preceding. 
15. Eugenia fragrans. Fragrant Eugenia. 
Peduncles axillary dichotomously branched 
with a sessile flower at the bifurcation twice the 
length ol the leaf, leaves elliptic rounded or suba- 
cuminate at the apex shining above slightly con- 
cave and punctulated beneath, arboreous. 
Myrtus fragrans, Swartz, FI. lad. Occ. 914 ? 
n A B. Port Royal mountains. Road from Green- 
Valley to Old England. 
FL. 
A tree about 50 feet in height : stem straight, 
smooth : branches towards the end subtetragonal, com- 
pressed, puberulous, glanduloso-punctulated. Leaves de- 
cussating, rounded, retuse, or subacuminate with a blunt 
point at the apex, entire, obscurely veined : petiole short. 
Peduncles solitary. Bractcm linear, appressed. Flowers 
size of those of the common myrtle, white, very fragrant, 
shortly pedicelled, with a pair of linear bracteolcs ap- 
pressed to the calyx. Calycine lobes 4, concave: the 
two outer subacute; the two inner rounded. Petals 
rotundo-ovatc, concave, spreading, white, glanduloso- 
punctulated, deciduous. Stamens numerous. Style subu- 
late, deolinate : stigma acute. Berry globular, 1-secded. 
This forms a very beautiful tree. It is remarkable for 
its straight erect stem, sending off no branches until it has 
attained a considerable height. It may be mistaken for 
the mountain guava, from the resemblance of the stem, the 
bark of which, as also that of the Pimento, is remarkably 
smooth and of a grey ferruginous colour. — The above 
description differs so much from that of Swartz, that the 
identity of the plants may be doubted. 
* * * * Peduncles racemoso-cymose panicled, 
axillary or terminal. 
16. Eugenia virgata. Rod-Wood. 
Racemes axillary and terminal shorter than 
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