FLORIDA GUAVA. 
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are indebted to the late indefatigable Dr. Baldwyn, who 
met with it in some part of East Florida, near the river 
St. Johns. To show how very unlike this species is to 
all the others known, it was hastily marked by Mr. 
Schweinitz in his herbarium, (of which the specimen 
forms a part,) “ Quercus virens ,” and, at the first hasty 
glance some resemblance may be traced with the Live 
Oak in the leaf and twig, but, of course, the presence of 
the fruit at once dispels the illusion. 
I have seen but the single specimen now figured, and 
would recommend its examination to some future tra- 
veller. The twig is round, covered with a grey bark, and 
at near distances marked with the cicatrices of opposite 
fallen leaves. The leaves on the upper branchlets are 
crowded together in opposite pairs, of a very thick, 
opaque, rigid consistence, and appear to be sempervi- 
rent, they are perfectly smooth on both sides, paler 
beneath, dark green above, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, 
sometimes with an attempt at a very short and blunt 
acumination, with the margin reflected, and beneath 
marked with numerous approximating feathered nerves; 
they are from 1 inch to 1 1 inches long by | to I of an 
inch wide. The peduncles are axillary and solitary, 
very thick in the fruit-stalk and scarcely two lines long. 
The flowers I have not seen. The berry is blackish- 
purple, pear-shaped, about the size of a cherry, and 
appears to have been succulent, as usual; internally it is 
filled with horizontal rows of flat, subreniform, pale 
brownish bony seeds, with a narrow embryo curved into 
the form of a horse-shoe. The cotyledones are very 
small, and in the seed of a bright waxy-yellow. This 
species is very nearly allied to the Purple-fruited Guava, 
(P- Cattleianum,) scarcely differing in any thing but the 
smallness of the leaves and the pyriform fruit, though 
the leaves of the Purple Guava, besides being much 
