328 MYRTACEJE. PstbicM. 
lanceolate —DC. prod. 3. p. 3; Spr. syst. 2. p. 490 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 499; 
Wall. L. n. 3659 ; Wight! cat. n. 1066. 
IV. PSIDIUM. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 416.— Guaiava. Gertn. fr. 1. t. 38. 
- Calyx-tube ellipsoidal or obovate, often contracted at the apex: limb in 
:estivation undivided and ovate, afterwards 1—5-cleft. Petals 5. Stamens 
numerous, distinct, crowded and inserted in a broad ring over almost the 
whole undivided portion of the limb of the calyx. Style filiform. Stigma 
capitate. Ovary 5-20-celled, each cell divided into two by means of a pla- 
centa, that resembles a dissepiment and is cleft at the margin, some of them 
occasionally abortive: ovules numerous, horizontal, attached to the margin 
of the placenta. Fruit baccate, covered with the tube of the calyx and 
crowned by its lobes, many-seeded. Seeds in the ripe fruit nestling within 
a pulp: testa bony. Embryo curved like a horse shoe: radicle longish : co- 
tyledons minute.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, quite entire, feather- 
nerved ; not dotted. Peduncles axillary, 1-3-flowered, bibracteated. Flow- 
ers white. 
* 1011. (1) P. pumilum (Vahl :) small shrub: branchlets 4-angled : leaves 
lanceolate, acute; upper side glabrous; under tomentose, with the nerves 
prominent: pedicels 1-flowered, shorter than the leaf: fruit globose.—Vahl, 
symb. 2. p. 56; DC. prod. 3. p. 232 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 489.—P. angustifolium, 
Lam.—P. Cujavillus, Burm. ; Wall. L. n. 8655.—P. caninum, Lour. 
1012. (2) P. pyriferum (Linn. :) arborescent: branchlets 4-angled: leaves 
elliptical, slightly acute, marked by the prominent nerves, densely pubescent 
beneath: pedicels 1-flowered: fruit turbinate—DC. prod. 3. p. 233; Spr. 
syst. 2. p. 488; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 480; Wall.! L. n. 3657 ; Wight! cat. n. 
1067.—Guaiava pyriformis, Gertn. fr. 1. t. 38.—Rheed. Mal. 3.t. 84; Rumph. 
Amb. 1. t. 47.———Malabar. Nopalry. 
1013. (3) P. pomiferum (Linn.:) arborescent: branchlets 4-angled, leaves 
oval- or oblong-lanceolate, pubescent beneath : peduncles 3- or many-flow- 
ered : fruit globose.— DC. prod. 3. p. 234 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 489 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 
2. p. 480; Wall.! L. n. 3658.— Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 35 ; Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 485 
Pluk. t. 193. f. 4. —  Malabar. 
V. MYRTUS. Linn, ; Gertn, fr. t. 88. 
Calyx-tube somewhat globose: limb 5- or very rarely 4-partite. Petals 
5, or very rarely 4. Stamens distinct. Berry 2-3-celled, somewhat globose, 
crowned with the segments of the calyx. Seeds (ripe) in each cell several, 
or very rarely solitary, reniform : testa bony. Embryo curved: cotyledons 
semicylindrical, very short: radiele twice the length of the cotyledons,— 
Shrubs. Leaves opposite, quite entire, pellucid dotted, Peduncles axillary, 
l- or rarely 3-flowered. 
the lateral nerves near the margin, upper side when young downy, under 
ly downy on the outside: berry 3-celled: seeds compressed, forming tw? 
: nd. 2. 
rows in each cell.—DC. prod. 3. p. 240; Spr. syst. 2. p. 480; Roxb. fl. Ind. T 
P. 498; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1442 ; Wall. ! ret 3630 ; Wight! cat. n. 1068 f 
—M. canescens, Lour.; Roxb. fi. Iud. 2. p. 498 (Kept distinct by an error o 
the press).— Pluk. t. 372. f. 1.—— Neclgherries. | 
