(212) TENTAMEN FLOR^ LUTCHUENSIS. 479 



Var, pyriferum, Duthie, in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 II, p. 468. 



Guayeva pyriformis, Gtertn. " Fruct. I, t. 38." 



Psidium pyriferur)i, L. " Sp. Pl. ed. 2, p. 672 "; Koxb. 

 Fl. Ind. II, p. 480; DC. Prodr. III, p. 233. 



LuTCHU {K. Hirasawa ! 1894, fl., in herb. Normal School, 

 Kagoshima). 



Insula Amami-Oshima, cult ? (r. Ito, n. 503, 21 Julio 

 1894, frf.). 



Insula Utchina : in Nafa (8. Tanalca\ n. 241, 11 Majo 

 1891, steril.) ad Idzunzatchi-mura {YamadaX 22 Aug. 

 1882, steriL) et Onu-yama ( J. Ito, n. 852, 30 Julio 1894, 

 sterih) ; inter Tchatan et Unna {T. Ito, n. 993, 22 Aug. 

 1894, fl.) ; in monte Nagu-daki, spontefacta {T. Ito, n. 1115, 

 24 Aug. 1894, frf.) ; ad Yuntanza (3Iatsumura ! 24 April. 

 1897, fl. sub " flores albi "). 



Insula Myaku {T. Ito, n. 1164, 9 Aug. 1894, fl.). 



Aechipelago Yema : insula Kuru-shima (fide Tashiro) ; 

 insula Ishigatchi inter Shika-mura et Nora {T. Ito, n. 1283, 

 11 Aug. 1894, frf.). 



Nom. Lutch.: Banshiru (U.) sec. T /«5o ; Bansuru (Y.) 

 sec. T Ito ; Banshiro (O.) sec. T. Ito. 



DiSTRiB. Native of America ; cultivated and naturalized 

 in subtropical and tropical Asia, including Formosa {Hakino ! 

 Oivataril 1896), Hongkong, South China aud India. 

 Peduncle 1-flowered, Hower white ; fruit pyriform, edible. 



Ehodomyrtus, Reichb. 



R. tomentosa, Hassk. in " Flora, 1842, Beibl. 2, p. 35 "; 



