General description:- Evergreen trees or shrubs.

Leaves:- Simple, usually opposite, exstipulate, with aromatic oil-glands.

Flowers:- Hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Calyx and corolla 4- or 5-merous. Stamens numerous. Ovary inferior, syncarpous, with axile placentation; fruit a berry or capsule.

MYRTUS

General description:- Shrubs with simple,

Leaves:- Opposite.

Flowers:- Solitary in leaf-axils.

Fruit:- A berry crowned by the persistent calyx-teeth.

Key features:-
1) Leaves opposite.
2) Fruit a berry.

Uses:-
The bark, leaves and flowers contain an aromatic oil, Eau d'Anges, used in perfumery and medicinally. The berries are sometimes fermented into an acid-tasting drink.