378 FOREST CULTURE AND 
India and Mexico to South Brazil. For this handsome 
evergreen and useful bush universal attention should 
be secured anywhere in our warm lowlands, for the 
sake of its aromatic, wholesome berries, which will 
attain the size of a hen’s egg and can be converted 
into a delicious jelly. The pulp is generally cream- 
colored or reddish, but varies in the many varieties 
which have arisen in culture, some of them bearing 
all the year round. Propagation is easy from suck- 
ers, cuttings, or seeds. Many other berry-bearing 
Myrtacee (of the genera Psidium, Myrtus, Myrcia, 
Marliera, Calyptranthes, Eugenia) furnish edible fruits 
in Brazil and other tropical countries, but we are not 
aware of their degrees of hardiness. Berg enumer- 
ates as esculent more than half a hundred for Brazil 
alone, of which the species of Campomanesia may 
safely be transferred to Psidium. 
Psidium incanescens, Martius.—Brazil; from Min- 
as Geraes to Rio Grande du Sul. This Guava-bush 
attains a height of 8 feet. Berry edible. 
Psidium polycarpon, Al. Anderson.*— From Guiana 
to Brazil, also in Trinidad. A comparatively small 
shrub, bearing prolifically and almost continuously its 
yellow berries, which are of the size of a large cherry 
and of exquisite taste. 
Psidium rufum, Martius.—Brazil, in the province 
Minas Geraes, on sub-alpine heights. This Guava- 
bush gains finally a height of 10 feet, and is likely the 
hardiest of all the species, producing palatable fruit. 
Ptychosperma Alexandre, F. v. Mueller.—The Al- 
exandra Palm. Queensland, as well in tropical as 
extra-tropical latitudes. The tallest of Australian 
Palms, and due of the noblest form in thé whole em- 
