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MYETACEAE. 



FEIJOA. 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- 

 round, somewhat raised: bundle- 

 trace 1, transverse or C-shaped: 

 stipule-scars lacking. Leaves 

 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. 



