218 A COMPENDIUM OF 
the Aquee Aurantii Flores, also the oil of Ne- 
toli. Most of the orange flower water is im- 
ported from France. Orange flowers are fee- 
bly stimulant in their effects and are never given 
‘except in the form of the water, and then only as 
an adjunct and flavor to other remedies. 
Caryophyllus, Cloves, Caryophyllus Aro- 
maticus.—Natural order Myrtacee. Native of 
Mollucca Islands, but cultivated in many trop- 
ical countries of the world. The clove treeis a 
handsome evergreen, and adorned with smooth 
leaves, obovate oblong in shape, about four 
inches long and two inches broad, sharply 
pointed at their apex and base and supported 
on long petioles. The flowers are rose colored, 
with more than ten stamens and one pistil. 
The unexpanded flowers or buds are the cloves 
of commerce; these are gathered before the 
tree is six years old. The cloves found in com- 
merce and the stores are about % inch (12 mil- 
limeters) long, sub-cylindrical in shape, of a 
dark brown color, with a solid, glandular calyx, 
the tube of which terminates in four teeth, 
which go to make up the glandular head; this 
enlargement is formed by four immature pet- 
als, which covering hides from view a number 
of curved stamens and a style. Cloves havean 
aromatic odor and a spicy, pungent taste, and 
contain resin, wax, tannin, eugenin, caryophyl- 
din, eugenic acid and a volatile oil; eugenin and 
caryophyllin are both capable of crystallization, 
the former occurring in pearly scales and the 
latter in yellow acicular crystals; cloves are 
anti-emetic, stomachic and stimulating in their 
action; dose from 3 to 8 grains (0.2 to 0.5 
