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PSIDIUM MONTANUM. Sw. 



Mountain Guava. 



Native of Jamaica. 



A loft v tree, sometimes 100 feet in height . oark very smooth, ash- 

 coloured ; and leaves simple, 3 ino lies long; flowers large, white, 

 with the odour of bitter almonds ; berry sour, size of a cherry. (My- 

 rtacece.) 



Wood " is highly esteemed, affording a timber of the hardest descrip- 

 tion, with the grain beautifully variegated." (Macfadyen.) 



" A hard white wood, grows straight to about 2 feet in diameter, 

 not much used in building, peihaps on account of its hardness and 

 cross grain, and because when used us posts, it rots quickly in the 

 earth." (Harrison.) 



" At elevations from 3,000 to 6,000 feet, not a very common timber 

 tree and useful only for gun-stocks and such articles as require hard 

 tough wood, grows up to two feet in diameter."' Hooper.) 



PUNICA GRANATUM, Linn. 

 Pomegranate. 



Native of Persia, Cabul, N. W. India. 



A bush or small tree, with simple leaves, crimson flowers, and red- 

 dish-yellow fruit. (LythracecB.) 



Bark of root a vermifuge ; also used in chronic diarrhoea, and 

 dysentery. 



Flowers, called " Balaustine flowers," possess astringent proper- 

 ties. 



Fruit used as a dessert fruit, and may be eaten u as a slightly as- 

 tringent and refreshing refrigerant in some febrile affections, especially 

 those of the bilious type." 



Rind of fruit astringent, and may be used externally and inter- 

 nally ; highly esteemed in India for diarrhoea and chronic dysentery., 

 usually combined with opium. 



PURSLANE. See Porttjlaca. 



PURSLANE, SEA-SIDE. See Sesuvium porttjlacastrum. 



QUASSIA, JAMAICA. See Picr^hna excelsa. 



QUILOT. See Musa textilis. 



RAMIE. See Bcehmeria nivea. 



RAMOON. See Trophis Americana, 

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