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Psidium cordatum, Sims. 
The Spice Guava. West India. This one attains the 
height of a tree. Its fruit edible, 
Psidium cuneatum, Camhess. 
Brazil ; province Minas Geraes, Bruit greenish, of the 
size of a Mirabelle Plum. 
Psidium grandifolium, Martius. 
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, Eaddi.* 
(P. pomifermn, L. P. pyriferum, L.) 
The large Yellow Guava. Prom West India and Mexico 
to South Brazil. Por 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-colored 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 Myrtaceae (of the genera 
Psidium, Myrtus, Myrcia, Marliera, Calyptranthes, Eugenia) 
furnish edible fruits in Brazil and other tropical countries, 
but we are not aware of their degrees of hardinesss. 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, Martius. 
Brazil ; from Minas Geraes to Eio Grande do Sul. This 
Guava-bush attains a height of 8 feet. Berry edible. 
Psidium polycarpon, Al. Anderson.* 
Prom 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. 
