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Psidium cuneatum, Cambessedes. 



Brazil ; province Minas Geraes. Fruit greenish, of the size of 

 a Mirabelle Plum. 



Psidium grandifolium, Martius. 



Brazil ; provinces Rio Grande do Sul, Parana, Sao Paulo, Minas 

 Geraes, where the climate is similar to Southern Queensland. 

 A shrub of rather dwarf growth. The berries edible, size of a 

 walnut. 



Psidium Guayava, Raddi.* (P. pomiferum, Linne ; P. pyrifemm, 

 Linne.) 



The large Yellow Guava. From West India and Mexico to 

 South Brazil. For this handsome evergreen and useful bush 

 universal attention should be secured anywhere in warm low- 

 lands, 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-coloured or 

 reddish, but varies in the many varieties which have arisen in 

 culture, some of them bearing all the year round. Propaga- 

 tion is easy from suckers, cuttings, or seeds. Many other 

 berry-bearing MyrtaceaB (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 enumerates as escu- 

 lent 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 Minas Geraes to Kio Grande do Sul. This Guava- 

 bush attains a height of 8 feet. Berry edible. 



Psidium lineatifolium, Persoon. 



Mountains of Brazil. Berry about one inch diameter. 



Psidium malifolium, F. v. Mueller. (Campomanesia malefolia, 

 Berg.) 



Uruguay. Berry about one inch diameter. 



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. 



