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Psidium chrysoph.yllu.ni, F. v. Mueller. (Abbevillea chrysophylla, Berg.) 



The Guabiroba do Mato of South-Brazil. This tree attains a 

 height of about 30 feet. The fruit is generally not larger than a 

 cherry. Perhaps other species of the section Abbevillea would be 

 hardy and worthy of cultivation. 



Psidium cinereum, Martius. 



Brazil, provinces Miuas Geraes and Sao Paulo. Also yielding aa 

 edible fruit. 



Psidium cor datum, Sims. 



The Spice-Guava. West-Indies. This attains the height of a 

 tree. Its fruit is edible. Probably hardy in sub-tropic regions. 



Psidium cuneatum, Cambessedes. 



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

 Mirabelle-plum. 



Psidium grandifolium, Martius. 



Brazil, provinces Rio Grand 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. Linne".* (P. pomiferum, Linne"; P. pyriferum, Linne*.) 

 The large Yellow Guava. From the West-Indies and Mexico to 

 South-Brazil. This handsome evergreen and useful bush should 

 engage universal attention anywhere in warm lowlands, for the sake 

 of its aromatic wholesome berries, which will attain the size of a hen'a 

 egg, and can be converted into a delicious jelly. The pulp is gene- 

 rally 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 suckers, cuttings or seeds. Many other 

 berry-bearing Myrtaceae of the genera Psidium, Myrtus, Myrcia r 

 Marliera, Calyptranthes and Eugenia furnish edible fruits in Brazil 

 and other tropical countries; but we are not aware of their degrees of 

 hardiness. Berg enumerates as esculent more than half a hundred 

 from Brazil alone, of which the species of Campomanesia may safely 

 be transferred to Psidium. 



Psidium incanescens, Martius. 



Brazil, from Minas Geraes to Rio Grand do Sul. This guav-a-busK 

 attains a height of 8 feet. Berry edible. 



Psidium lineatifolium, Persoon. 



Mountains of Brazil. Berry about 1 inch in diameter. 



Psidium malifolium, F. v. Mueller. (Campomanesia malifolia, Berg.) 

 Uruguay. Berry about 1 inch in 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. 



