67 Amroude.--(Guava.) An Indian fruit resembling the pear. It is full
of small seeds, and is of an unpleasant smell; its tree resembles the
mulberry, but is smaller; the leaves are like the leaf of the mangoe,
green, with a tinge of red, and the veins of the leaf are strongly
marked. The fruit is pendant, and its shape pyramidal. It is also
called Suffryam, "Psidium pyriferum." It strengthens the stomach,
produces costiveness, and is astringent. I have given it with good
effect in laxities of the bowels.