Rhodamnia
(from rhodamnus, a small branch; in reference to the size of the plants). SYN. Monoxora. ORD. Myrtaceae. A genus of stove or greenhouse shrubs or small trees. Twelve species have been enumerated; of these, three are natives of Eastern or tropical Australia, and the rest of tropical Asia. Flowers often small; calyx tube ovoid or sub-globose; limb of four persistent lobes or segments; petals four, spreading; pedicels short, sometimes very short, fasciculate in the axils, or shortly and loosely racemose; bracteoles small, caducous. Leaves opposite, ovate or lanceolate, three-nerved or tripli-nerved, often hoary or downy beneath. The only species introduced is often erroneously classed under Eugenia. For culture, see Myrtus. R. trinervia (three-nerved). fl. white; peduncles slender, axillary, three together in a cluster, or on a short, common peduncle, each with one or rarely three flowers. May. l. ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous and much reticulated above, prominently three-nerved from the base, beneath, as well as on the young shoots and inflorescence, velvety-pubescent. Australia, 1823. A tall greenhouse shrub or small tree. (B. M. 3223, under name of Eugenia trinervia.)