CARYOPHYLLUS AROMATICUS P 
* 
KUGENIA PIMENTA, 
DE CANDOLLE. 
ALLSPICE, 
Myrtus PIMENTA.—Linneus. 
Sex. Syst.—Icosandria, Monogynia. 
Gen. Cuar.—T ube of the calyx roundish ; limé divided, as far as the ovary, into four segments. Petals as many 
as the lobes. Stamens indefinite, free. Ovary two or three-celled; cells containing many ovules. Berry nearly 
globose, crowned by the calyx; when ripe, one, rarely two-celled. Seeds one or two, somewhat rounded, large ; embryo 
spuriously monocotyledonous ; cotyledons very thick, combined into one mass; radicle scarcely distinct, very short. 
(De Candolle.) 
Specir. Cuar.—A tree about thirty feet high. Branches terete; branchlets compressed ; the younger ones, as well 
as the pedicels, pubescent. Leaves about four inches long, on short footstalks, oblong or oval, pellucid-dotted, somewhat 
opaque, smooth. 
Flowers numerous, four-cleft in the forks of the peduncle, nearly sessile ; others pedunculate. Sepals 
roundish. Petals reflected, greenish-white. Berry succulent, black or dark-purple when ripe, two-seeded. Embryo 
roundish, with c 
otyledons consolidated. (Pereira, from De Candolle and Botanical Magazine.) 
The Pimenta plant is a native of the West Indies and South America. It is cultivated in Jamaica: hence the 
name Jamaica Pepper. It is a plant which cannot, however, be indiscriminately propagated by planting, and the only 
method of forming a “Pimenta Walk” is to level the forest in the neighbourhood of a plantation, and allow the berries 
to be scattered over the ground by the birds; the decaying timber upon the ground affording protection and nourish- 
ment to the young trees after they have sprouted. Soon after the trees are in blossom, the berries become fit for 
gathering. The 
fruit is not suffered to ripen on the tree, as the pulp in that state, being moist and glutinous, is difficult 
tocure. It is gathered by hand, then exposed upon a terrace, and dried by the sun. The returns are large, a single a | 
tree affording one hundred pounds of cured fruit. 
The berries 
marked with an 
, called Allspice, are a little larger than pepper, round, unequal, and rugose, of a brownish colour, and ; . 
umbilicated prominence ; they are separable into two reniform cells, each containing a black seed. 
The smell is aromatic and agreeable, resembling several spices, hence the name Allspice; their taste is astringent, 
warm, and aromatic. By time they deteriorate. They impart their properties partially to water, and entirely to 
alcohol. They contain a warm, fragrant, heavy, volatile oil, which is of a reddish-brown colour. Bonastre, also, obtained 
a green fixed oil, a flaky substance, tannin, gum-resin, uncrystallizable sugar, malic SOEs Si AE IY 
Pimenta is a warm aromatic stimulant, generally employed as an adjuvant. It is used in substance, in infusion, 
or distilled water, or spirit. 
PLATE XXXVI.—Represents the plant in Slower. 
CARYOPHYLLUS AROMATICUS. 
LINNAUS. 
CLOVE TREE. 
Evcenta CARYOPHYLLATA.— Thunberg. 
Sex. Syst.—Icosandria, Monogynia. 
Grn. Cuar.—Tube of the calyx cylindrical ; limb four-partite. Petals four, 
calyptra. Stam 
adhering by their points in a sort of 
: | th of the 
ens distinct, arranged in four parcels, inserted in a quadrangular, fleshy hollow near the teeth o 
