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celled, with numerous ovules in each cell. Fruit, a berry, globose, inferior, 
sted at the middle by the calyx-limb, three- to five- celled, many seeded ; 
seeds pendulous, embryo minute, endosperm fleshy. 
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; Genus 4. Ackama, A. Cunningham. 
i: A shrub or tree, with opposite pinnate, stipulate leaves. Flowers in 
spreading panicles, small, perfect, or unisexual: calyx five-lobed; disc ten- 
lobed; petals, five, linear, inserted beneath the disc; stamens, ten; anthers 
didymous ; ovary superior, hirsute, two-celled; ovules many, on parietal 
placentas ; styles, two, filiform. Fruit, a capsule, two-celled; seeds turgid, 
with scanty endosperm. 
GENUS 5. Wernmannia, Linn. 
_ Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, stipulate, unifoliolate, or pinnate. 
Flowers small, racemed or racemose-paniculate: calyx inferior, four- or five- 
lobed, imbricate; disc lobed; petals, four or five, inserted beneath the disc ; 
- stamens, eight to ten; ovary superior, conical, two-celled; styles filiform ; ovules 
few or many; placentas axile, restricted to the upper part of the ovary. Fruit, 
a coriaceous capsule, two-celled; seeds minute, oblong-curved, pilose, endo- 
sperm fleshy. “a! 
ORDER 15. MYRTACEA. 
Erect or scandent shrubs or large trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, 
_ simple, exstipulate, glandular-dotted. Flowers perfect: calyx-tube adherent 
with the ovary, sometimes exceeding it, three- to five-lobed or cleft, imbricate, 
sometimes closed in bud and falling away like an operculum; petals as many 
as the calyx-lobe, imbricate rarely wanting, inserted on a disc at the throat of 
the calyx, and ultimately covering the top of the ovary; stamens numerous, 
inserted with the petals; filaments filiform or more or less united at the base; 
anthers small; ovary inferior, three- to five-celled; style simple, slender. Fruit, 
a capsule or drupe or berry, one- to five-celled, one- or many-seeded ; seeds 
without endosperm. 
This order comprises the genera Myrtus, Metrosideros, Eugenia, and Eucalyp- 
tus, all of which afford timber of high value. The Brazil nut of commerce, 
_ Bertholletia excelsa, is also included. 
Genus 1. Lerprospermum, Forster. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves small, alternate, coriaceous. Flowers white or 
pink: calyx-tube campanulate or turbinate, five-lobed, valvate; petals, five, 
rounded, perigynous; stamens numerous, with short filaments, perigynous ; 
ovary four- or five-celled; style short; ovules many. Fruit, a capsule, woody 
or coriaceous, opening by five valves within the calyx-margin; seeds numerous, 
linear, minute. 
GeNus 2. Mertrrosiperos, brown. 
_ Erect or scandent shrubs or large trees. Leaves opposite, often distichous, 
more or less coriaceous. Calyx-tube globose, oblong, or turbinate ; lobes, five, 
imbricate ; petals, five, spreading; stamens very numerous, iene than the 
petals ; filaments slender; ovary fee celled; style slender; ovules numerous. 
Fruit, a coriaceous pac deeply sunk within the calyx- mi or the upper 
portion free, three-valved ; seeds minute, numerous. 
Genus 3. Myrrus, Linneé. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers axillary, solitary or cymose: 
calyx-tube globose or ovoid, four- or five-lobed ; petals, four or five, imbricate, 
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