Tab. 7620. 

 FEIJOA Sellowiaxa, Berg. 

 Native of 8. Brasil and Uruguay. 



Nat. Ord. Myktace^. — Tribe Myrte-M. 

 Genus Feijoa, Berg; (Benth. & Hoolc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 712.) 



Feijoa Stllowiana; frutex v. arbusoula erecta, foliis stibtus et inflorescentia 

 albo-tomentosis, cortice brunneo, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis 

 obtusia coriaceis supra Isete viridibus penninerviis nervis patentibus, 

 pedicellis uuifloris oppositis axillaribus demum ramulo excrescente quasi 

 lateralibus, calycis tubo elongato supra ovarium nou producto anguste 

 turbinato basi bracteolis minimis 2 iustracto, limbi segmentis orbiculari- 

 bus persistentibus reflexislateribusdemuminvolutis, petalis 4 orbicularibus 

 patenti-reflexis extus albis intus sanguineis marginibus albis, staminibus 

 perplurimis in alabastro rectis per anthesin elongatis petalasuperantibus, 

 filameutia gracilibus sanguineis, antberis parvis orbicularibus dorsifixis 

 aureis, loculis pilosis connectivum crassiusculnm cingentibus,_ ovano 

 4-locnlari, stylo crassiusculo superne attenuato curvo, stigmate capitellato, 

 ovulis numerosis biseriatis placentis angulo interiore loculorum affixia, 

 baeca magna late oblonga calycis segmentis coronata pulposa viridi 

 aromatica 4-loculari polysperma, seminibns reniformi-rotundatis com- 

 pressia, teata coriacea, emhryone spiraliter convoluto, cotyledonibus 

 aDgustis, radicula elongata obtusa. 



F Sellowiana, Berg in Linntea, vol. xxix. (1858) 258, et in Mart. Fl. Bras. 

 vol. xiv. pars I. p. 616, et Suppl. t. liv. {folium). KiaesJcou, Enum. 

 Myrt. Bras. p. 187. Andre, in Rev. Horticol. vol. Ixxv. (1898) No. xi. 

 p. '264, cum ic. 



Orthostemon Sellowianna, Berg I.e. vol. xxvii. (1854) p. 440. 



Araca do Brazil ; Arasa do Rio Grande ; et Goyabo del Pays, in col. 



Flowering, and subsequently fruiting specimens of this 

 interesting plant were sent to me in 1896, by my friend 

 M. Andre, from his Garden, Villa Colombia, Golfe S. Juan, 

 as a species of Psidium ? from Uruguay, with an eatable 

 fruit, accompanied with the request that I would determine 

 its name. This, owing to an important error in the 

 description of Feijoa in Martiu's "Flora Brasiliensis," 

 proved to be a very troublesome task, and it was not until 

 I undertook a systematic inspection of the whole vast tribe 

 of Mi/rtesB in the Kew Herbarium that I was able to give 

 ~M. Andre the name, under which he published it in the 

 *' Rev. Horticol." cited above. The error alluded to was 

 describing the seed as albuminous, with flat, foliaceous 

 cotyledons, characters foreign to the Order Myrtacese. 



With the habit of Psidiam, Feijoa differs from that genus 



October 1st, 1898. 



