254 MYRTACEAE. 
Fre1soA. Pineapple Guava. 
(Family Myrtaceae). 
Somewhat aromatic shrubs with 
shredding bark: evergreen. Twigs 
moderate, nearly terete: pith 
roundish or somewhat flattened, 
spongy, brown. Buds solitary, ses- 
sile, globose becoming ellipsoid, 
; naked. Leaf-scars opposite, half- 
‘ts round, somewhat raised: bundle- 
trace 1, transverse or C-shaped: 
nu stipule-scars lacking. Leaves 
le ull simple, entire, minutely punctate 
with black. (Fejoa). 
Feijoa is a close relative, botani- 
cally, of the true guavas. Its 
white-woolly leaves give it an at- 
tractive silvery appearance when 
they are turned by the wind. It 
appears to be coming into exten- 
sive cultivation in southern Cali- 
fornia, as along the Riviera, for 
its pleasantly flavored fruit. 
At first gray-tomentose: twigs brown. F. Sellowiana. 
