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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.* (F. pomi/erum, Linnd ; P. pyrifemm, 

 Linnd.) 



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 low- 

 lands, for the sake of its aromatic wholesome berries, which 

 will attain the size of a hen's Qg^ and can be converted into 

 a delicious jelly. The pulp is generally cream-coloured or 

 reddishi, but varies in the many varieties which have arisen in 

 culture, some of them bearing all the year round. Propaga- 

 tion is easy from suckers, cuttings, or seeds. Many other 

 berry-bearing Myrtaceaj (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 hardiness. Berg enumerates as escu- 

 lent more than half a hundred for Brazil alone, of which the 

 species of Campomanesia may safely be transferred to Psidium. 



Psidium incanescens, Martius, 



BrazU, from Minas Geraes to Rio Grande do Sul. This Guava- 

 bush attains a height of 8 feet. Berry edible. 



Psidium lineatifolium, Persoon. 



Mountains of Brazil. Berry about one inch diameter. 



Psidium malifolium, F. v. Mueller. {Campomanesia malefoUa, 

 Berg.) 



Uruguay. Berry about one inch diameter. 



Psidium polycarpon, Al. Anderson.* 



From Guiana to Brazil, also in Trinidad. A comparatively 

 small shrub, bearing prolifically and almost continuously its 

 yellow berricB, which are of the size of a large cherry and of 

 exquisite taste. 



