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- 

 fades as in the germ. Seeds numerous, filiform, brown. 



Gasrtner's figure of Metrosideros armillaris, vol. 1. 6. 

 34./. 5. is so exactly like this, that it may well serve to 

 be quoted for it. 



PSIDIUM. Sckreb. 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. 



Eug. White Guava; however the colour of the inside 

 of the fruit varies much. 

 Pela. Rheed. Mai. 3. t. 34. 

 Hind. Soopari-am, pronounced Sufriam. 

 Beng. Peyara. 



2. P. pomiferum. Willd. 2. 958. 

 Fruit spherical. 



Eug. Red Guava, but like the other, the colour of the 

 inside varies much. 



Malacka-pela. Rheed. Mai. 3. t. 35. 



Hind. Lal-sufriam. 



These two kinds of Guava are very generally cultivated 

 in the warmer parts of America. 



CARALLIA. R. 



Calyx six or seven cleft. Coro^ six or seven-petioled, 

 unguiculate. Stigma plate-lobate. Germ inferior, one* 



