472 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Psidium. 



PSIDIUM GTJAJAVA, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 468. 



An American plant, cultivated and run wild in most Districts. 

 The Guava. 



A small tree, much cultivated for its fruit. Bark smooth, 

 thin, greenish -grey ; wood greyish -brown. Yern. Hind. 

 Amrud ; Tel. Jama ; Tarn. Segapu ; Kau. Sebe ; Mai. Pela. 



3. Jambosa, DC. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, entire, pellucid-dotted, petioles short. 

 Flowers large, 4-merous, jointed with the top of the pedicel, in 

 terminal or rarely lateral cymes, the branches 3-chotomously 

 divaricate; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube more or less turbinate, 

 usually attenuate at the base, the mouth produced beyond the 

 ovary and furnished with a thickened staminal disk; lobes 

 rounded, persistent. Petals 4, inserted on the top of the mouth 

 of the calyx, broad, concave, obtuse, falling singly. Stamens 

 very numerous, free, longer than the petals, bent inwards in the 

 middle regularly when in bud, later unfolding. Ovary 2-celled, 

 many-ovuled ; style slender ; stigma slightly acute. Fruit a 

 1-2-seeded fleshy berry, crowned by the calyx-limb and thickened 

 disk. Seeds large, angled ; cotyledons thick, fleshy; radicle small, 

 concealed between the cotyledons. 



Flowers pedicelled : 

 Leaves rounded or cordate at base : 

 Flowers in terminal corymbose cymes : 



Leaf -nerves and intramarginal nerve conspicuous, regular ; 

 leaves cordate at base : 



Leaves lanceolate, long-acuminate, 6-9 in. long, l'5-2'5 in. 

 broad; calyx-tube slender, '0--75 in. long; fruit 1*5 in. in 



diam 1. Munronii. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong-, acute or obtuse, 6-9 in. long, 3-3'5 in. 

 broad ; calyx-tube stout, "4 in. long ; fruit 1 in. in diam. 



2. Mundagam. 



Leaf -nerves and intramarginal nerve not conspicuous, the latter 

 irregular and often double ; leaves elliptic, obtusely acute, 

 rounded at base, 3-4' 5 in. long, T5-2-5 in. broad; calyx-tube 



thick, subcylindric, '5 in. long 3. court allensis. 



Flowers in lateral cymes on the old wood ; leaves elliptic -ovate 

 or -lanceolate, long acuminate, the nerves and intramarginal 



