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Apple-fruited Guava. Sivcet,'^ 

 Common and Garden Guava. 



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MYRTUS 



Hesperidix). Zm. — Myrti. Juss» — Myrtaceu\ De Cand. Brown 



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com??a?m2V. M.^pedicellis solitariis uniiloris folii cir- 



citer longitudinc, bractcolis 2 linea- 

 ribus deciduis sub ilore^ calycibus quin- 



quefidis, foliis ovatis laaccolatisvc acutis. 



])e Cand. ProcL 3. p. 239, IVilld. Sp. 

 iV. 2.j>. 967. Jlort Kew, 3. p. 188. h 

 oc. rommia, 



M. latifolia romana, Bauh, Pin. 468. 

 Common broad-leaved Myrtle. Alton, 



p. tarcntina. 



M. minor vulgaris. 

 Box-leaved Myrtle. Alton. 



Baulu Pin. 469. 



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* The vernacular epithets, red and white, applied in the 

 Gardener's Dictionary, and in the llortus Kewensis, to the apple- 

 fruited and pear-fruited Guava, should be discarded. The editor 

 of the former work very properly states, although the statement 

 involves a contradiction, that the berry of his red Guava is within 

 ** either while or red,'' 



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