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Psidium cordatum, Sims. 



The Spice Gruava. West India. This one attains the 

 height of a tree. Its fruit edible. 



Psidium cuneatum, Cambess. 



Brazil ; province Minas Greraes. Fruit greenish, of the 

 size of a Mirabelle Plum. 



Psidium grandifolium, Martius. 



Brazil j provinces Kio Grande do Sul, Parana, Sao Paulo, 

 Minas Greraes, 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, L, P. pyriferum, L.) 

 The large Yellow Gruava. From West India and Mexico 

 to South Brazil. For this handsome evergreen and useful 

 bush universal attention should be secured anywhere in our 

 warm lowlands, 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 -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, Marliera, Calyptranthes, Eugenia) 

 furnish edible fruits in Brazil and other tropical countries, 

 but we are not aware of their degrees of hardinesss. Berg 

 enumerates as esculent 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 Greraes to E/io Grrande do Sul. This 

 G-uava-bush attains a height of 8 feet. Berry edible. 



Psidium polycarpon, Al. Anderson.* 



Prom Gruiana 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. 



