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pellneido- punctatis, retienlato-costatis, arcnatiın prope mar- 
ginem limbinerviis; pednnenlis erectis, 3-fioris, petiolo lon- 
gioribus, Nlore centrali sessili; alahastris pyriformibus, sub 
ealyce constrietis, primum elausis, apice obtusis, demum 4- 
partitis; germine 4-loenlari; bacca glohosa, glahra. 
Variat: Psidium monticolum Bg. in Oersted, Myrt. 
a. robustum; foliis majoribus, basi obtusis. 
Rami tereti-compressi, glabri. Folia 36 — 42’ long., 
%W— 26 Int, supra atrovirentia; petiolo valido, 5’ long.; 
neryo medio supra vix impresso, suhtus inerassalo; venis 
utroque latere 10-11, erecto-patulis, adscendentibus, supra 
parum prominulis, subtus elevatis; venulis interjectis reticula- 
ds, utringne parum prominuliss Peduneulus 6 — 7 long, 
pedieelli 1%, —%” long. Alahastra 5° lang, hracteolis sti- 
pantibus cadueis, Germen turbinatum, 21/, long., sporo- 
phoris bilamellatis. Calyx in alabastro ovatus, 21/4” long, 
demum irregulariter 4- partitus, lobis coriaceis, oblongis, ob- 
tusiuseulis (v. in hb. Oersted., coll. ‘no. 21). 
ß. gracile; foliis minoribus, basi breviter acutis. Fo- 
lie 26-36 long., 14 — 19 lat; petiolo 3 — 3” long. ; 
bacca 6” diametro (v. in hi. Oersted. no. 27). 
Psidium molle Bertol. Flor. Gnatim. p. 4R2. tab. 9, — 
Novi Comm. Bonon. IV. 44, 
Guayaba acida incolis, 
Folia petiolo 2 — 3 long.; lamina 3” long. et ulira, 
2” lat. (Beriel.). 
Habitat in Guatimale (Bertol,); «. in monte Candelaria, 
foret Februario (Dr. Oersted); £. in monte Zrasz in- Costa 
Rica (Dr. Oersted), 
55. Ps. Sorocubense Berg 1. c. n0. 38, 
Habitat in Brasiliae prov. Sr. Pauli (Sello). 
