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41. MYRTACE^, 



[Psidium 



Fruit crowned with the calyx-limb, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds 

 angular ; albumen ; embryo straight, curved or spirally twisted ; 

 cotyledons rarely leafy^ usually short and obtuse. 



Leaves usually opposite and dotted with peliucid 

 glands. Fruit a berrji or drupe.. 



Berry many-seeded ... ... ... K Psidium. 



Berry few-seeded ... ... 2. Eugenia. 



Leave? alternate, not gland-dotted. Fruit angu- 

 lar fibrous, or globose fleshy. 



Fruit angular fibrous, one-seeded ... 3. Baeriis'GTONIA. 



Fruit globose flesliy, many- seeded ... 4. CAEBi'A:. 



L PSIDIUM, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, not gland-dotted. Flowers; 

 on axillary peduncles, large, white. Calyx-tube ovate; limb valvately 

 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5. Stamens many. Ovary 2 or more celled j 

 ovules many. Fruit a many-seeded berry, 



P. Gmjavay Linn. Benth. Fl. Hoagk. 120; Fl. Br, I. 2. 468; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 232. F.pyriferum, W. & A. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. SuppL 

 M, The Giiava Tree. Jam, perw, Vern. 



Indigenous in Mexico, cultivated throughout the presidency, naturalised 

 in many places.. Fl. Apl.-May. Fr. R. S. A small tree with smooth grey 

 bark exfoliating in thin flakes. Wood reddish white, moderately hard 

 and even-grained.^ Pores small^ numerous, single or in short rows. Mkd^ 

 rays fine, numerous. Annual rings distinct. Weighs about 40 lbs. to the 

 cub. ft. Used for wood engraving, spear handles and instruments^^ 

 (Gamble). 



2. EITGENIA, Linn. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, coriaceous or mem- 

 branous^ pinnate-nerved. Flowers in lateral or terminal trichotomouss 

 cymes or panicles. Calyx-tube globose or more or less elongate i 

 lobes 4, rarely 5, Petals usually 4, free and spreading or united in a 

 calyptra. Stamens many, in several series, free or slightly collected 

 in four bundles. Ovary 2, rarely 3-celled ; style filiform, stigma^ 

 small, ovules several in each cell. Fruit a berry, 1 or several seeded, 

 crowned with the persistent calyx-limb. {Seeds few, globose, testa, 

 membranous or cartilaginous ; embryo thick and fleshy, radicle short 

 cotyledons thick, more or less united or distinct. 



Trees. Flowers large, skowyj 4-merou3. Calyx with a thickened disk. 

 Petals spreadiug. 



Flowers red, in dense lateral, short peduncled 



racemes ... •.. ... ... 1. JE. malaccensls* 



Flowers terminal and axillary, white. 



Calyx-tube broadly turbinate ... ... 2. Jambos, 



Calyx-tube hemispherical .. ... 3. E. hemispherical 



Calyx-tube slender. Stamens crimson ... 4. JE'. laeta^ 

 Irees. Flow^ers small, in compact cymes. Calyx without a 

 disk. Petals calyptj'ate or free, 

 i'etals free. 



