MELASTOMATACEAE 353 
apex rounded or obtusely acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, 12 to 
20 em long. Inflorescence axillary, sometimes terminating short branches, 
7to15cmlong. Flowers white, 3 to 4 cm in diameter, few to many. Fruit 
pink, fleshy, edible, turbinate, 3 to 4 cm long and thick, apex depressed, 
crowned by the much thickened, fleshy, incurved calyx-lobes. 
Commonly cultivated, fl. Mar.—April; widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines in cultivation, certainly introduced. Malay Peninsula and Archi- 
pelago. 
5. E. calubcob C. B. Rob. Calubcob (Tag.). 
A shrub or tree 6 to 30 m in height. Leaves subsessile or short-petioled, 
elliptic to ovate or oblong, 7 to 23 cm long, apex blunt-acuminate, base 
rounded or subcordate. Inflorescence terminal or lateral, 6 to 18 cm long, 
few- to many-flowered. Flowers white, 3 to 4 cm in diameter. Calyx- 
tube about 1 cm long. Petals 6 to 8 mm in diameter, orbicular-ovate. 
Fruit ellipsoid to ovoid, greenish-white, edible, fleshy, 4 to 5 cm long, crowned 
by the thin, not inflexed, persistent calyx-lobes. (FI. Filip. pl. 145, E. 
montana.) 
Old Botanic Garden, fl. March-May; widely distributed in the Philippines. 
Endemic. f 
38. PSIDIUM Linnaeus 
Trees or shrubs with opposite entire leaves. Flowers axillary, on 1- 
to few-flowered peduncles, white. Calyx urn-shaped or obovate, the limb 
4- or 5-lobed. Petals 4 or 5, free. Stamens very many. Ovary 2-celled, 
inferior; ovules many in each cell. Fruit a globes to ellipsoid or obovoid, 
fleshy, many-seeded berry, crowned by the calyx-lobes. (Greek name of 
the pomegranate.) 
Species about 100 in tropical and subtropical America, 2 introduced in 
the Philippines. 
1. P. cuAJAVA L. Bayabas (Tag.); Guayaba (Sp.); Guava. 
A shrub or small tree reaching a height of 8 m, somewhat pubescent. 
Young branches 4-angled. Leaves oblong to elliptic, 5 to 12 cm long, acute 
or somewhat acuminate, base usually rounded, the nerves prominent. 
Peduncles 1- to 3-flowered. Flowers white. Sepals green, 1 to 1.5.cm 
long. Petals broad 1.5 to 2 cm long. Fruit globose to ovoid or obo- 
void, 4 to 5 cm long, green, turning yellowish when ripe, somewhat aromatic, 
the pulp pink or nearly white, edible. (FI. Filip. pl. 48, P. pyriferum.) 
Common in our area, fl. most of the year. A native of Mexico, 
now found throughout the Philippines and thoroughly naturalized. Most 
tropical countries. 
104. MELASTOMATACEAE (MELASTOMA OR CULIS FAMILY) 
Herbs, shrubs, climbing vines, or trees. Leaves opposite, sometimes 
whorled, entire, palmately or pinnately nerved; stipules none. Flowers 
perfect, regular, in lateral or terminal fascicles or panicles. Calyx-tube 
united with the ovary, 3- to 6-lobed or truncate. Petals as many as the 
calyx-lobes. Stamens as many as the petals, twice as many, or more 
numerous, the alternate ones frequently shorter; filaments bent inward in 
bud; anthers opening by apical pores, rarely by lateral slits, the connective 
often appendaged or spurred below. Ovary 4- to 6-celled, or in Memecyclon 
1-celled; style simple; ovules very many. Fruit included in the calyx-tube, 
berry-like or capsular. 
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