Order Lxiii
MYRTACEÆ. 1075 Blákea W.
Dotted leaves, with marginal ribs, and an inferior ovarium and single style, are the great features of Myr- They are all fine evergreen shrubs or trees, generally bearing white flowers, and in the their first station, or trees, generally bearing white flowers, and in the first section producing fleshy fruit. It is there that the Allspice, the Clove, the Rose-apple, and the Guava find their station, by the side of the common myrtle and pomegranate of Europe. The section with capsular fruit comprehends, with the exception of the gigantic Eucalyptuses, almost wholly, handsome hard-wooded New Holland or South Sea shrubs, with white or crimson flowers and stamens; yellow fiowers are very uncommon. The the flowers and stamens; yellow fiowers are very uncommon. The volatile oil contained in the little reservoirs of the bark, the luaves, and the floral envelopes, gives these plants and bark, the leaves, and the floral envelopes, gives these plants the fragrance which has caused them to be celebrated by poets of all ages. It is very aromatic, a little acrid, and slightly tonic and stimulant, whether it is under the form of Cajeputi oil, the produce of Melaleúca leucadénslightly or of oil of cloves or of myrtle. In the clove this oil is so abundant as to constitute nearly a in In the clove this oil is so abundant as to constitute nearly a fifth of the whole weight of the calyxes that produce it . There is also a considerable proportion of astringent principle in these plants; in the bark of the pomegranate it is very obvious; and in Myrtus régni and lúma of Chile, Euplants; malaccénsis, it is SO abundant as to render a decoction of those plants of great use in cases dysentery. of the as to render a decoction of those plants of great use in cases of dysentery. génia Eucalýptus resinífera produces an astringent resinous substance resembling gum Kino. The leaves for tea. astringent resinous substance resembling gum Kino. The leaves of the Chilian myrtles, Leptospérmum scopárium, and some other species, have been used as substitutes for tea. 1193 Alángium J. 1118 Psidium W. 1119 Eugénia W.
Tribe 2. CAPSULARES.
Tribe 1. 1120 Caryophyllus P. S. 1121 Mýrtus W. 1122 Calyptránthes W.
BACCATE. 1123 Piménta Lindl. 1124 Olýnthia Lindl. 1127 Púnica W. 1499 Cáreya Roxb. 1082 Decumária W. 1611 Tristánia Br. 1612 Calothámnus Lab. 1613 Beaufortia Br. 1498 Gustávia W. 891 Bæ'ckia Sm. 1115 Leptospérmum W. 1116 Fabrícia W. 1125 Stravádium Juss.
Tribe 2. 1117 Metrosidéros W. 1126 Eucalyptus W. 1610 Melaleúca H. K.
Tribe 3. LECYTHIDEÆ. 1497 Barringtónia W.