MYETACEAE. 



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Psidium Cattleyanum Sabine, Purple Guava, Strawberry Guava, Bra- 

 zilian, occasionally planted for its fruit, which is pulpy, purplish, globose, 

 about 1' long, has obovate leaves, wedge-shaped at the base, calyx-lobes 

 separate in the bud, smaller flowers, and is a small tree with terete branches. 

 Yerrill uses the common name ''Guava Berry" for this plant and cites Le- 

 froy's record, but this name belongs- to Eugenia floriiunda West, of the West 

 Indies. A fine plant at Paget Eectory was about 10° high in 1914, the trunk 

 12' in girth. 



Psidium amplexicaCQe Pers. [P. cordatum Sims.], Mountain Guava, of 

 the Virgin Islands, a shrub with orbicular subcordate short-petioled leaves, 

 recorded by Lefroy as grown at Somerville, died some years ago. 



3. PIMENTA Lindl. 

 A tree with nearly smooth bark, oblong or elliptic, petioled aromatic 

 pinnately-veined leaves, and small white 4-parted flowers, borne in compound 

 cymes in the upper axils. Calyx-tube campanulate, its lobes spreading, per- 

 sistent. Petals spreading. Stamens numerous, in several series. Stigma pel- 

 tate; ovary 2-celled; ovules mostly solitary in each cavity. Fruit berry-like, 

 aromatic. Seeds few, subglobose; embryo spiral. [Greek, rich in oil.] A 

 monotypic genus of the West Indies and Central America. 



1. Pimenta Pimenta (L.) Cockerell. 

 Allspice. Pimento. (Fig. 284.) Becoming 

 40° high or more, glabrous, except the puberu- 

 lent inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous, 3'-6' 

 long, mostly obtuse at the apex, narrowed at 

 the base, with petioles about A' long, the veins 

 rather prominent beneath; cymes stalked, 

 many-flowered; flowers about 3" broad; calyx- 

 lobes blunt; ovary puberulent; berries sub- 

 globose, about 3" in diameter, usually 2- 

 seeded. [Myrtus Pimenta L. ; P. officinalis 

 Lindl.; P. vulgaris Lindl.] 



Hillsides. Very abundant in Warwick. Nat.- 

 uralized. Native of Jamaica, Cuba and Central 

 America. Flowers in summer and autumn. Com- 

 monly planted. 



Myrtus communis L., Myrtle, Sv^eet 

 Myrtle, of southern Europe, is a shrub 3°-10° 

 high, with opposite, nearly sessile, oblong to 

 lanceolatenacute, aromatic leaves 1-2^ long, the flowers solitary in the axils on 

 peduncles about as long as the leaves; the peduncles bear 2 narrow bractlets, 

 and the fruit is a small black berry. It is not uncommonly planted for orna- 

 ment and interest. 



Amomis caryophyllata (Jacq.) Krug & Urban, Bay or Bay Bum Tree, 

 West Indian, a tree up to 25° high, with leathery, elliptic to obovate, obtuse 

 short-petioled leaves 2-5' long, bright green and shining above, dull beneath, 

 finely reticulate-veined, the small white 5-parted flowers in large conii>ound cymes, 

 the ovoid fruits about 5" long, is planted for ornament and for its aromatic 

 leaves. There is a perfect specimen on the lawn at Mt. Langton. [Miirius 

 caryophyllata Jacq.; M. acris Sw. ; Pimenta acris Kostel.] 



Anamomis fragrans (Sw.) Griseb., Fragrant An amomis. Jamaican, 

 recorded by Jones in 1873 as grown in Bermuda, is a tree, up to 25° high, with 



