CARYOPHYLLUS AROMATICUS. ORD. XXIX. Hesperidee. 539 
THIS tree never rises to any considerable height, but divides 
into large branches, which are covered with smooth greyish bark : 
the leaves are large, entire, oblong, lance-shaped, of a. bright — 
green colour, and stand in pairs upon short footstalks: the flowers 
terminate the branches in bunches or pannicles: the calyx of the 
fruit is divided at the brim into four permanent small pointed 
segments, and that of the flower is composed of four leafits, which 
are roundish, concave, deciduous, and placed above the germen: 
the corolla consists of four petals, which are roundish, notched, 
very small, and of a bluish colour:} the filaments are numerous, 
slender, inserted in the calyx, and furnished with simple antherz: 
the germen is oblong, large, terminated by the calyx of the fruit, 
and placed below the insertion of the corolla: the style is 
tapering, and the stigma simple; the pericarpium is one celled, 
umbilicated, and terminated by the indurated converging calyx: 
the seed is a large oval berry,” 
It isa native of the East Indies, the Moluccas, &c. and was 
lately found by Sonnerat in New Guinea. It has been asserted 
that the Dutch, who have long been in possession of the principal 
spice islands, destroyed all the Clove trees growing in the other 
islands, in order to secure a lucrative branch of commerce to 
themselves, and confize the cultivation of this tree to the island 
of Ternate;> but it appears that in 1770 and 1772, both the 
Clove and Nutmeg trees were brought from one of the Moluccas, 
and transplanted in the Isle of France, Bourbon, and Seickelles,* 
where they have been found to thrive very well, (see Nutmeg) 
though the Clove tree has since succeeded better in ie ha pass 
+ We dhangaed this plant preserved in spirit, in the possession of the President 
of the Royal Society, but without finding any corolla. 
* The fruit, in its mature state, is known by the name Anthophyllus, 
* Savary, Dict. vol, it. p- 653. 
* Hist, de ? Acad. de Se. de Paris, 1772. 
4 Tessier, in Rozier Journ. de Phys. 1779. . 
