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Psidium cuneatum, Cambessedes. 



Brazil, province Minas Geraes. Fruit greenish, of the size of 

 a Mirabelle Plum. 



Psidium grandifolium, Martins. 



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, Baddi.* (P. pomiferum, Linne ; F. 

 pyriferum, Linne.) 

 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 our warm 

 lowlands, for the sake of its aromatic wholesome berries, 

 which will attain the size of a hen's egg and can be converted 

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

 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. Many 

 other berry-bearing Myrtacese (of the genera Psidium, Myr- 

 tus, 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 esculent more than half a hundred for Brazil alone, of 

 which the species of Campomanesia may safely be transferred 

 to Psidium. 



Psidium incanescens, Martins. 



Brazil, from Minas Geraes to Bio Grande do Sul. This 

 Guava-bush attains a height of eight feet. Berry edible. 



Psidium lineatifolium, Persoon. 



Mountains of Brazil. Berry about one inch diameter. 



Psidium malifolium, F. v. Mueller. (Campomanesia mali- 

 folia, 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 berries, which are of the size of a large cherry and of 

 exquisite taste. 



Psidium rufum, Martins. 



Brazil, in the province Minas Geraes, on sub-alpine heights. 

 This Guava-bush gains finally a height of ten feet, and is 

 likely the hardiest of all the species producing palatable 

 fruit. 



