20 : MYRTACEZL, 
iron salts and containing 29 per cent of Pb O in its lead salt. 
The tannin was ina free state. The bark left 10°6 per cent: — 
of carbonated ash from the reduced calcium oxalate which 4 
occurred in large simple crystals in the liber. 
CARYOPHYLLUS AROMATICUS, Linn. 
Fig.—Bentl. and Trim., t. 112. Clove tree (Eng.), Giro- 
- flier aromatique (I’r.). 
Hab.—Moluccas, cultivated elsewhere. The flower buds 
and fruit. 
Vernacular.—Laung (MHind.), Lavanga (Mar., Can.), Long 
(Beng.), Lavang (Guz.), Lavangdlu, Lavanga-pu (Tel.), Ki 
_ rambu, [lavangap-pu, er (Tam. ). The fruit, N orl 
(Ind. Bazar). 
History, Uses, &c.—The clove tree is said to be i 
digenous only in the five small islands, which constitute 
Moluccas proper, viz., Tarnati, Tidori, Mortir, Makiyan an 
Bachian. It was afterwards introduced into other neighbour 
ing islands, where it is now cultivated, and ata later” : 
order that their breath might have an agreeable odour. (Pharm 
éographia.) It is difficult to say when they were first intre 
duced into India, but they are mentioned by Charaka, who 
considered to be the oldest Sanskrit medical writer, under the 
name of Lavanga, a name which, with various modifications, is 3 
applied to cloves all over India. They are regarded by Sans 
krit writers as light, cooling, stomachic, digestive and u 
in thirst, vomiting, Ralcdaaiess colic, &c., and are pres¢ 
with other spices and with rock salt. (Dutt’s Hindu Mat 
Medica.) A paste of cloyes is applied to the forehead and 
