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twice as long as broad, ribbed or lineate, hard and stiff, pubescent 
beneath ; ped. 1-3- often 3-fi. moderately long ; fr. globose some- 
tv hat hard and austere, flesh firm and dryish. — Linn. ! Sp. PL 
(ed. 2) 672 ; Lour. FI. Coch. i. 310 ; DC. iii. 234. Goyavier 
sauvage (vulg. G. rouge, G. des Savannes ) Lam. Enc. iii. 17. Gua- 
java alba acida fr. rotundiore Pluken. ! Almag. 181. 1. 193. f. 4. 
Cujavus agrestis Humph. Amb. i. 142. t. 48. Merian Surin. 
57. t. 57. Guajava rubra acida Hort. Lugd. Sloane ! Herb, in 
BH. vol.7. p.87 (on a loose sheet); ejusd. (Gardens, Holland) 79. 
p.100; 86. p.85 (ped. 1-fl., fr. inimat. subpyriform !) ; 91. p. 93; 
162. p. 239; 206. p. 4 ; 235. p. 36. — Shr. cult. Mad. reg. 1, rr. 
Occasionally in gardens about Funchal, raised, as at the Achada 
by the late Mrs. Penfold and by myself, from W. Indian seeds. 
FI. June; fr. Jan. — Rather a large spreading shr. than tr., without 
a decided trunk though 10-15 ft. high, with longer weaker 
easy-flowing drooping or declining branches and more regularly 
distichous and close-set narrower always somewhat pointed 1. 
than P. pyriferum L. Young shoots, 1. beneath, petioles and 
pedicels minutely more or less velvety. L. shortly but dis- 
tinctly stalked 3 or 4 in. long, 1-1| in. wide, their petioles £ in. 
long, somewhat abruptly acute, yet with the very point or tip 
itself blunt or sphacelate. Ped. \ in. or more long, in Mad. 
mostly 1-fl. Fr. always globose small hard, not more than 1 in. 
in diam., crowned with the much enlarged sep., pale lemon-y. 
or even green when ripe or at least when quite deep red inside, 
with the flesh somewhat hard dry and austere and of a deeper 
red or flesh-col. than is usual in P. pyriferum, and though 
stronger tasted, very inferior in quality, having much the same 
relation to it as the Crab ( Pyrus acerba DC.) has to the Garden 
Apple (P. Malus L.). I have indeed sometimes doubted whe- 
ther the two sp. should not be united, as by Raddi, into one 
(P. Guiava Radd.) ; but the seedlings of both retain their proper 
characters. 
The Ara 9 a (P. littorale Raddi) with small vellowish-gT. pear- 
shaped fr., and the Cattley Guava (P. Cattleianum Sab. BM. 
t. 2501) with small globose dark crimson or blood-red fr. tasting 
like Hautboy Strawberries, are also not uncommon in gardens 
about Funchal, the latter having been introduced by myself 
in 1833 or 1834. The Ara 9 a is a tall tr. ; the Cattley Guava 
a mere bushy shrub. Both have the branches round, with 
shining coriaceous 1. of which the younger are cinnamon-red 
or reddish in the Cattley Guava, the early bearing of which, 
added to the profusion and excellence of the fr., renders it a 
valuable acquisition. Seedling pi. begin to bear in their 3rd 
