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30. MYRTACEJE. 
2. Myrtus. Cal. -tube subglobose, limb equally and regu- 
larly 5-4-partite. Pet. 5-4. Stam. few or many free in- 
serted at the base of the cal.-limb in a narrow ring. Fr. 
a 2-3-celled subglobose (dry) berry crowned by the per- 
sistent cal.-limb. Seeds small several (rarely 1) in each 
cell with a somewhat bony shell and the radicle twice as 
long as the very short semicylindric cot. — Shr. or small tr. 
L. opposite pellucid-dotted. Ped. axillary 1-fl. FI. white. 
ttf3. Jambosa. Cal. -tube globose or turbinate, limb equally 
and regularly 4-fid, lobes rounded. Pet. 4. Stam. very 
numerous long stiff. Ovary with several cells and many 
ovules. Fr. pome-like umbilicate at top and crowned by 
the cal.-limb 1-3- or 4-seeded ; flesh or rind thin grumose , 
pulp none. Seeds large subglobose or (by compression) 
angular, with a thin horny shell and very large fleshy or 
horny thick cot. welded or locking partially together and 
concealing the radicle. — Tr. of tropical E. Indian origin. 
L. opposite pellucid-dotted coriaceous. FI. white with long 
tassel-like filaments, in lateral and terminal cymes. Fleshy 
coat of fr. eatable. 
tffl. Psidium L. 
ttfl. P. PYBIFERUM L. Guava (Common or White). Goiaba ; 
the tr. Goiabeira. 
Arboreous, trunk short oblique smooth torose, branches short 
stout crooked, the young shoots square straight stiff thickisli; 
1. broadly oy«/-oblong, scarcely twice as long as broad, somewhat 
obtuse or truncate at each end, rugose and ribbed or lineate with 
prominent parallel nerves, hard and stiff, pubescent beneath ; 
ped. 1-3- mostly \-Jl. very short', fr. mostly globose or globosely 
oval, rarely obovate or turbinate or shortly pyriform, flesh soft 
sweet and melting. — Linn. ! Sp. PI. (ed. 2) 072 ; Lour. FI. Coen, 
i. 300 (descr. opt.); Lam. Enc. iii. 16 ( Goyavier coni?nun ou 
blanc)', Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1079 (fr. unusually depressed); 
DC. iii. 233. P.fol. lineatis obtusiusculis, ped. 1. -jloris Ilort. 
Cliff. ! (in BH.) 184. Guajava foliorum angulis 4:-angtdis, fr. 
oblongo Trew. Ehret. 12. t. 43 (1. too narrow and pointed, fr. 
globose and turbinate or shortly pyriform on same branch). 
Guajava alba dulcis Commel. 1 lort. Med. Amstel. i. 121. t. 63 
( fr. oval-globose butl. acuminate) ? Merian Surin. 19. t. 19 (fr. 
globose). Cvjavus domestica Rumpli. Amb. i. 140. t. 47 (fig. 
bad, 1. acute and fr. distinctly pear-shaped) ? Pela Rheecl. 
Mai. iii. 31. t. 34 (fr. obovate or turbinate, 1. obtuse) ; Malacca 
Pela ib. 33. t.35 (fr. globose, 1. obtuse). Mala puniccc ajfinis pomi- 
fera, See., Sloane 1 Hist. Jam. ii. 161; fr. majore a/bo, Sec., ib. 
163; ejusd. Herb, in BH. vol. 7. p. 87; 55. p. 48; 88. p. 19; 
