350    .  The  Iheful  American  MijHles.  { ji^riss?""*' 
and  in  Brazil  as  ara(;d  mirim  and  aragd  goiaha.  It  comes  from  a 
small  tree,  the  Psidium  Guava,  Raddi,  under  which  name  two  or  three 
nominal  species  are  comprised,  chiefly  distinguished  by  the  shape  of 
the  fruit ;  this  is  either  pyriform  or  globular,  the  latter  apple-shaped 
or  red  guava  being  regarded  as  rather  inferior  to  the  former,  or  white 
guava.  The  unripe  fruit  is  astringent,  and  is  employed  like  other 
astringents ;  the  young  leaves  and  buds  have  similar  properties,  also 
the  root  and  the  bark,  and  are  used  both  internally  and  externally. 
The  white  guava  is  most  esteemed  for  eating  in  the  raw  state ;  but  the 
pulp  of  both  varieties  is  used  in  the  West  Indies  in  the  preparation  of 
two  kinds  of  preserve,  which  are  known  as  guava  jelly  and  guava 
cheese,  and  furnish  a  not  unimportant  article  of  commerce. 
The  dark  red  spherical,  well-flavored  fruit  of  Psidium  Cattleya- 
num,  Sabine,  has  the  size  of  a  large  plum,  and  on  account  of  its  pur- 
plish pulp  is  known  as  purple  guava,  and  in  Brazil  as  ardgaseiro  do 
campo  ;  it  is  indigenous  to  Brazil  and  naturalized  in  China. 
Psidiinn  guineense,  Swartz,  is  cultivated  in  the  West  Indies  for  its 
somewhat  smaller,  dark  yellow  and  internally  red  berry,  and  the  fruit 
of  Eugenia  (Myrtus,  Sprengel)  pseudo-psidium,  Jacquin,  is  esteemed 
there  under  the  name  of  bastard  guava. 
Psidium  montanum,  Swartz ,  the  mountain  guava  of  Jamaica,  has  a 
globular  fruit,  scarcely  J  inch  in  diameter,  which,  like  the  flowers,  has 
a  bitter  almond  odor.  A  species  of  St.  Vincent  Psidium  Guildingia- 
num,  Gh'isebach,  with  small  berries,  only  \  inch  thick,  has  in  its  habit 
considerable  resemblance  to  Myrcia  coriacea  and  Pimenta  acris,  but  the 
rigid  leaves  are  devoid  of  pellucid  dots. 
Campomanesia  (Psidium,  Aublet)  aromatica,  Grisebaoh,  has  yellow 
globular  eatable  berries,  and  a  foliage  of  a  balm-like  odor.  The  sim- 
ilar fruit  of  Campomanesia  lineatifolia,  Ruiz  et  Pavon,  is  known  in 
Peru  as  palillo,  and  that  of  Camp,  cornifolia,  Kunth,  in  New  Grenada, 
as  guyavo  de  Anselmo. 
In  this  oonnection  should  also  be  mentioned  the  rose  apple  and 
Malay  or  Otahede  apple,  which  have  been  naturalized  in  the  West 
Indian  islands,  and  there,  as  in  tropical  Asia,  their  native  country,  are 
highly  valued  on  account  of  their  agreeable  taste  and  rose-like  odor. 
The  former,  Jambosa  vulgaris,  De  Cand.,  s.  Eugenia  (Myrtus,  Kunth) 
Jambos,  Lin.,  is  a  globular  or  oval  yellowish  or  reddish  berry,  about 
IJ  inch  in  diameter;  the  latter,  Jambosa  (Eugenia,  Xm. ;  Myrtus^ 
Sprengel)  malaccensis,  De  Cand.,  is  pear-shaped  or  top-shaped,  3  or  4 
