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Psidium chrysophyllum, F. v. Mueller. (Abbevillea chrysophylla, 



Berg.) 



The Guabiroba Do Mato of South Brazil. This tree attains a 

 height of about 30 feet. The fruit 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 Minas Geraes and Sao Paulo. Also yielding an 

 edible fruit. 



Psidium cordatum, Sims. 



The Spice Guava. West India. This one attains the height of a 

 tree. Its fruit edible. 



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. pyriferum, 

 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 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-coloured 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 Myrtacese (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 degress 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 Guava-bush 

 attains a height of 8 feet. Berry edible. 





