ate MYRTACES. [ Pstdium. 
very silk-hairy, the lobes ovate, acute, almost equal, less pubes- 
cant or nearly glabrous, often ciliolate; petals about 2 lin. long, 
obovate-oblong ; -berries globulay, the size of a pepper-kernel, 
scenes velvety, several-seeded. 
—Common in the hill forests of the Martaban hills, and here freely 
seine up in deserted hill toungyas, at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. elevation; also 
Tenasserim.—Fl. March.—l.—SS.=Metam 
PSIDIUM, L. 
e Calyx-tube bell-shaped, urceolate or pear-shaped, adnate at the 
base or high up, the upper free portion quite entire and closed over 
the corolla in bud and coming off entire or splitting irregularly. 
Petals 4 or 5, spreading. Stamens very numerous, ins 
many rows on the usually broad disk, free, the filaments filiform ; 
anthers oblong or linear. Ovary 2-7- (usually 4-5-) celled, with 
numerous ovules in each cell attoched:t in numerous rows to the = 
shoes curved, ho ioe or almost circular, 
rail very long, the cotyledons small.—Trees or shrubs, often 
villous or tomentose, with opposite penninerved leaves. Flowers 
tigeallly rather large, Py 1-3 on axillary or lateral peduncles, rarely 
numerous and eae 
soo 1. P. guyav i Brand. For. Fl. 232.—Ma-la-ka-pen.—An 
evergreen tree (2030-4 (?) +2—3), [a low shrub in a wild state 
in Sumatra, etc.], the young branches pubescent; bark quite 
smooth, ereyish brown, peeling off in thin almost paper-like flakes ; 
leaves oblong to ovate, on a very short strong petiole, usually acu- 
minate or almost blunt, 3-5 in. long, appressed pubescent beneath, 
glabrescent, the lateral nerves paralleland very strong with conspi- 
cuous transversal veins and net-veination between; flowers rather 
_ large, white, fragrant, solitary or by 2-3 on 4-1 in. “Jong pubescent 
uncles arising either solitary or rarely by 2-3 from the axils of 
the leaves; bractlets under the calyx 2, subulate ; calyx-tube ovoid 
- 
as long as the adnate part; petals broad, fully } an in, in dia- 
meter ; berries large, the size and shape of an apple or pear, fleshy 
many ee crowned by the calyx-limb, when fully ripe yellow 
. (P. pyriferum, L.) : peduncles 1-flowered ; 
rum (2. pomiferum, 1.) : peduncles usually 2- 
third = ease fruits globose or ovoid. 
or globular, densely puberulous, the lobes behern A ovate, acute, nearly 
by 
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