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Eugenia Moorei F.v.M. 
A Rose-Apple. 
(Family MYRTAGE>E.) 
Botanical Description. Genus Eugenia Mich ex. Linn., Syst., ed. 1 (1735). 
Calyx-tube from globular to narrow-turbinate, not at all or more or less produced above the ovary ; 
lobes four, very rarely five, from large and imbricate to very short and scarcely prominent above the 
truncate margin. 
Petals four, very rarely five, either free and spreading, or more or less connivent, or connate or 
falling off in a single calyptra. 
Stamens numerous, in several series, free or obscurely collected in four bundles ; anthers versatile, 
usually small, the cells parallel or very rarely divaricate, opening longitudinally. 
Ovary two-celled or very rarely (in species not Australian) three-celled, with several ovules in each 
cell, or only two in an American section. 
Fruit a berry or sometimes almost a drupe, or nearly dry with a fibrous rind. 
Seeds either solitary or globose, or few and variously shaped by compression ; testa membranous or 
cartilaginous ; embryo thick and fleshy with a very short radicle, the cotyledons either united in an 
apparently homogenous mass or more or less separable. 
Trees or shrubs. 
Leaves opposite, penniveined. 
Flowers (in the Australian species) either solitary in the axils, or in lateral or terminal trichotomous 
cymes or panicles. (B. Fl. iii, 280, 1866.) 
Eugenias are either trees or shrubs, and are found chiefly in the West Indies 
and tropical America, India, and eastern Australia. Many species are to be found in 
the hot-houses and conservatories of Europe, including some of the Australian species, 
of which E. Smithii, the Lillypilly (as it is called by the aborigines [?]), was the first to 
be sent, it having been cultivated since the year 1790. 
Botanical Description. Species E. Moorei F.v.M., Fragmenta, vol. v, p. 33 (1865). 
Following is a translation of the original : 
A tall tree 80 feet or more in height, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broad- 
lanceolate to oval-oblong, shortly acuminate or obtuse, attaining about 9 inches in length, narrowed into 
a short petiole, dark and shining above, paler underneath, the secondary veins oblique, numerous and 
rather close together, connected by an intramarginal vein, the reticulation bet ween them faintly prominent 
on both sides. Flowers red, in broad trichotomous panicles on the old wood below the leaves. Calyx 
turbinate-campanulate, short and broad. Petals broad and obtuse, usually falling off together calyptra- 
ike. Stamens 4 to 6 lines long, red as well as the calyx and the petals. Style about as long as the stamens. 
Frvit compressed globular, white and very succulent, about as large as a middle-sized apple. 
