in the elongated ovary, in the filaments erect in bud (in which 

 it differs from all other Myrtacese), and in the hairy anthers. 

 Feijoa was discovered by the late Fr. Sellow of Pots- 

 dam, who, in 1819, accompanied Prince Neuwied in his 

 journey to Brasil as a plant collector, on the recommenda- 

 tion of Sir Joseph Banks and Mr. Lambert. After his 

 return Sellow's collections were widely distributed, and 

 there is a good set of them in the Kew Herbarium, in- 

 cluding Feijoa, which was found in the Cocos australis 

 region, of the district of Kio Grande do Sol. Since that 

 period wild and cultivated specimens have been sent by 

 various Brasilian collectors. Specimens communicated by 

 Glaziou from the Rio Botanical Gardens are numbered 

 6156, 7886. 



The name Feijoa was given in compliment to Don J. 

 da Silva Feijo, Director of the National History Museum 

 of San Sebastian. Over and above the beauty of the 

 foliage and flower of the plant, it is remarkable for the rich 

 aromatic odour and flavour of its guava-like fruit. 



Descr. — An erect shrub or small tree, with brown bark, 

 and leaves clothed beneath with snow-white appressed 

 tomentum. Leaves two to three inches long, opposite, 

 shortly petioled, oblong, obtuse, smooth, deep green and 

 shining above. Flowers solitary, axillary, stoutly pedi- 

 celled, drooping, about two inches broad across the petals. 

 Calyx white-tomentose, tube elongate, sub-clavate, bi- 

 bracteolate at the base, not produced beyond the ovary, 

 lobes orbicular, reflexed. Petals orbicular, spreading, 

 externally white-tomentose, internally blood-red, with 

 white margins. Stamens very many, filaments erect in 

 bud, at length spreading, longer than the petals, blood- 

 red, anthers small, yellow, pubescent. Ovary four-celled, 

 cells many-ovuled ; style stout, narrowed below the 

 capitellate stigma. Berry two inches long, by one and 

 three-quarters in diameter, oblong, crowned with the 

 calyx-lobes, many-seeded, pericarp thin, green, sarcocarp 

 fleshy, aromatic. Seeds reniformly orbicular, compressed, 

 testa coriaceous. Embryo spirally coiled. — J.D. H. 



Fig. 1, Bad with perianth removed on one side, showing the erect stamens 

 and style; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, calyx-tube and style; 5 and 6, transverse 

 sections of ovary at different stages of development ; 7, ripe fruit ; 8, seed ; 

 9, embryo : — All enlarged, except 7 and 8, which are of nat. size. 



