392 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Psidium cinereum, Martins. 



Brazil, provinces Minas Geraes and Sao Paulo. Also yielding an 

 edible fruit. 



Psidium cordatum, 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, Cainbessedes. 



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

 Mirabelle-plum. 



Psidium g-randifolium. Martins. 



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 G-uayava, Linne.* (P. pomiferum, Limie ; P. pyriferum, Linne.) 

 The larger 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's egg, and can be co verted 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. This big shrub is easily held under control in extra tropic 

 countries, but in the warmest and moistest tropical regions it may 

 become irrepressible, as it spreads readily from suckers, and gets 

 disseminated by birds and cattle easily [R. L. Holmes]. Many 

 other berry-bearing Myrtaceae of the genera Psidium, Myrtus, 

 Myrcia, 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 Campo- 

 manesia may safely be transferred to Psidium. 



Psidium incanescens, Martins. 



Brazil, from Minas Geraes to Rio Grande do Sul. This guava- 

 bush attains a height of 8 feet. Berry edible. 



Psidium lineatifolium, Person. 



Mountains of Brazil. Berry about 1 inch in diameter. 



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

 Uruguay. Berry about 1 inch in diameter. 



