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half an inch in length, opposite, terete, puberulous, each 
furnished at the insertion with a small ovate bractea. A 
pair of minute broad-ovate ciliated bracteoles below the 
calyx. Flowers numerous, showy, white, tinged with 
rose colour. Calyx minute, externally puberulous, 4- 
cleft: divisions sub-equal, rounded, spreading. Petals 
obovate, rounded, minutely concave, glanduloso-punctul- 
ated. Stamens longer than the petals. Style erect, longer 
than the stamens. Berry spherical, purple, rather dry, 
crowned with the calycine segments, 2-3-seeded. Seeds 
hemispherical. 
The terminal racemes are usually as long as the leaves 
and are fasciculato-panicled. The petals are very deci- 
duous, and disappear after a shower of rain. The tree is 
a very beautiful object when in flower. 
18. Eugenia acutiloba. Sharp-lobed Eugenia . 
Racemes axillary 7-flowcred shorter than the 
leaf simple, peduncle and its divisions subhirsutc, 
hractete and calycine lohes acute, leaves ovali- 
oblong attenuated at the base acuminate pelluci- 
do-punctate, the upper surface when young sub- 
villose, when old glabrous im punctate, the under 
surface pale pubescenti-villous. — DC, 
DC. Prod. III. 281. 
KAB. Port Royal mountains. 
F L. July. 
A shrubby tree, about 12 feet in height : slightly com- 
pressed, glabrous, of a ferruginous colour. Leaves ob- 
long, acute at the base, attenuato-acuminate with the apex 
sharp, nerved, pellucido-punctate ; when young slightly 
villous, when old glabrous on the upper surface ; pubes- 
centi-villous with appressed hairs beneath. Racemes 
7-9 flowered : flowers opposite, pedicelled, each furnished 
with an appressed bractea at the insertion. Bracteoles 
2, ovate, acute. Calyx externally ferrugineo-villous ; 
divisions acute. 
19. Eugenia dumosa. Savannah Eugenia, 
Racemes axillary and subterminal shorter than 
