480 ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Psidium. 
which is attached to the axis. Style as long as the stami- 
na, Stigma simple. Capsule crowded round the branch- 
let, seminifera, inserted in the globular, firm, thick calyx, 
round, of the size of a grain of black pepper, hairy, parti- 
cularly the vertex, thin, three-celled, three-valved. Recep- 
tacles asin the germ. Seeds numerous, filiform, brown. 
Geertner’s figure of Metrosideros armillaris, vol.'1. 6. 
34, f.5. is so exactly like this, that it may well serve to 
be quoted for it. 
PSIDIUM. Schreb. gen. n. 841. 
Calyx five-cleft. Corol five-petioled. Germ inferior, 
four-celled. Berry one-celled, many-seeded. 
1. P. pyriferum. Willd. 2, 957. 
Fruit turbinate. 
Eng. White Guava; however the colour of the ine, 
of the fruit varies much. f 
~ Pela. Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 34. 
Hind, Soopari-am, pronounced Sufriam. 
- Beng. Peyara, 
2. Pz Doacerad: Willd, 2. 958. 
Fruit spherical. 
Eng. Red Guava, but like the other, the colenny of the 
inside varies much. sas 
_ Malacka-pela. Rheed. Mal. 3. ¢. 35. 
Hind. Lal-sufriam. 
These two kinds of Guava are very generally clvatel 
in the warmer parts of America. 2 
CARALLIA. R. 2 
Calyx six or seven cleft. Corol six or pee oe 
‘unguiculate. Stigma plate-lobate. Germ inferior, = 
. 
