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Clafs Polyandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lhu Gen, PknL 669.* 



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Ef. Gen. Ch. Cor. 4-petala. CciL 4-phyllus, duplicatus. Bacca 



i-fp-erma, infera. 



Sp. Ch.' C. foliis ovato-lanceolatls oppofitls, Horlbus termliialibus, 



, .&c. Mill. Di£i. 



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THIS tree never rifes to any coafiderable height, but divides into 

 krge branches, which are covered with fmooth greyifli bark : the 

 leaves are large, entire, oblong, lance-fnaped, of a bright green 



d ftand in pairs upon fliort footilalks : the fl 

 the branches in bunches or pannicles : the calyx of the fruit is divided 

 at the brim into four permanent fmall pointed fegments, and that of 

 the flower is compofed of four leafits, which are roundiih, concave, 

 deciduous, and placed above the germen : the corolla confifts of four 

 petals, which are roundifh, notched, very fmall, and of a bluiih 



4- the filam 



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flender, inferted in the calyx, and 



furnifhed with fimple antheras : the germen is oblong, large, term 

 nated by the calyx of the fruit, and placed belov/ the infertion of the 

 corolla : the flyle is tapering, and the iligma fnnple : the pericarpium 

 is one-celledj, umbilicated, and terminated by the indurated converg- 



ing calyx: the feed is a large oval berry/ • 



It is a native of the Eaft Indies, the Moluccas, &c. and was lately 

 found by Sonnerat in New Guinea. It has been aiferted that the 

 Dutch, who have long been in pofTeffion of the principal fpice iflands, 

 deftroyed all the Clove trees growing in the other iflands, in order to 

 fecure a lucrative branch of commerce to themfelves, and confine the 

 cultivation of this tree to the ifland of Ternate ) but it appears that 

 in 1770 and 1772, both the Clove and Nutmeg trees were brqught 

 from one oi* the Moluccas, and tranfplanted in the Ifle of France, 

 Bourbon, and Seickelles,' where they have been found to thrive very 

 well, (fee Nutmeg) though the Clove tree has fince fucceeded bette^ 

 in Cayenne.' To bring this tree to the highefl: perfedion, a peculiar 



* The Caryophyllus evidently belongs to the clafs Icofendria ;^ and iiiodernbotamfts 

 refer it to the grenus Eu2;enla. f' We 



Prefident of the Royal Society, but without i^nding any corolla. 



^ The fruit, in its mature -ftate, is known by the name Jnthophyllus. 



* Savary, DiSf. vol, ii. p. 653. * Hi/i, de V Acad, de Sc. de Pans, 1772. ^ Teffier 

 Rozier Journ. de Phyf. 1779. 



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