CARYOPHYLLI. 283 



expeditions for the purpose of destroying any young trees that mi^dit 



as 



have accidentally sprung up. 

 confine the growth of the s^ 

 Anihoyna is the largest, has but very recently been abandoned : thoii<;l 



1 



1 



in 



IKirhs of the Amboyna islands remained the property of the Dutch 



Government. The original Moluccas or Clove Islands now produce no 

 cloves at all. 



The enterprise of PoivrO; the French governor of Mauritius and 

 Bourbon, so far eluded the vigilance of the Dutch, that both clove and 

 nutmeg-trees were introduced into those islands in the year 1770.' 

 Tlie clove-tree was carried thence to Cayenne in 1798, and to Zau/^iljar 

 about the end of the century. 



Crawfurd,^ in an excellent article of which we have made free 



difficult to understand how the clove 

 first came to the notice of foreim nations, consider incr the well- 



use 



ascertained fact that it has never been used as a condiment or in any 



W 



islands 



'N e may observe however that there were some singular supersti- 

 tions among the islanders with regard to the so-called Royal Clove 

 (p. 287), a tree of which on the island of Makiyan was long supposed 

 to be unique. 



Collection — The flower-buds of the clove-tree when ^ 



oung 



nearly white, but afterwards become green and lastly bright red, wl^ien 

 they must at once be gathered. This in Zanzibar is done by hand ; 

 each clove is picked singly, a moveable stage the height of tlie tree 

 wing used to enable the labourers to reach the upper branches. The 

 buds are then simply dried in the sun, by which they acquire the 

 familiar dark brown tint of the commercial article. The gathering 



June 



Moluccas 



heaten ofF the tree by bamboos on to cloths spread beneath. The 

 animal yield of a good tree is about 4^ 

 double that quantity. 



pounds 



Description — Cloves are about A of an inch in length, and 



of a long cylindrical calyx dividing above into 4 pointed spreading sepals 

 which surround 4 petals, closely imbricated as a globular bud about yV 

 01 an inch in diameter. 



The petals which are of lighter colour than the rest of the drug and 

 somewhat translucent from numerous oil-cells, spring from the base of 

 " ' ^pigynous disc, the angles of which are directed towards the 



stamens 



lobes of the calyx. .„. ._ , 



at the base of the petals and are arched over the style. The latter 

 Which is short and siibulate, rises from a depression in the centre of the 

 ^isc. luunediately below it and united with the upper portion of the 



9*lyX is thp r^^,T€,y■Kr ^rVi^T, ir, O ^^llr.,1 n-nA r>nnfm'lis IliaUV OVUlcS. lllC 



. and 

 ,)has 



'Te, 



Observations sur la phy^'^iuc, Paris, 



honZtT'!'^,'''''' ^'''' de France, de Bour- JuiUet. 1779. ^ ^ ^ ^. ,, , ,_,. 

 " ^ '^'^ '"^echelles, et de cef^ isle^ a Cayemie. ' Didioaary of the Mmn Islands, 1850, 



article dove. 



