CARYOPHYLLUS ARoMATICUS. ORD. XXIX. Hesperidee. 541 
Clove is accounted the hottest and most acrid of the aromatics, 
and by acting as a powerful stimulant to the muscular fibres, may 
in some cases of atonic gout, paralysis, &c. supersede most others 
of the aromatic class; and the foreign oil, by its great. ess 
is also well adapted for several external purposes. 
The-essential oil is the preparation of this spice directed by the 
pharmacopeeias, which, as well as the Glove iell; enters sera 
officinal ti dBA 
MYRTUS PIMENTA. — PIMENTO, JAMAICA PEPPER, 
ALL-SPICE, : 
SYNONYMA. Pimento. . Pharm. Lond. Pimenta & Piper 
Jamaicensis. Pharm. Ed. Caryophyllus aromaticus Americanus, 
Lauri acuminatis foliis, fructu orbiculari, Pluk. Phit. 155. f. 4. 
Amomum quorundam odore Caryophylli, J. B. Caryophyllus 
aromaticus fructu rotundo, ‘Caryophyllon Plinii. Bauh. Pin. 
Piper adoratum Jamaicense nostratibus. Raii Hist. 1507. 
Myrtus arborea aromatica foliis laurinis. Sloane’s* Jam. vol. 2. 
ee toe Caryophyllus ‘foliis sic glabris alternis, 
racemis terminalibus et lateralibus. Browne’s Jam. p. 247. 
Caryophyllus foliis lanceolatis oppositis, floribus racemosis ter- 
minalibus & axillaribus. Miller’s Dict. 
Class Icosandria.* Ord. Monogynia. — Lin. Gen. Plant. 217. 
* “ Some of these trees are frequently otsdeed to be battens aahioh, has intro. 
duced a notion among the people of Jamaica ¢ and 1 male trees 
in general; and that some of the male or barren trees were necessary in: every 
walk; which, as they are commonly many, is.a vast'detriment. It is however 
certain, that all those I have observed were hermaphrodites: and I am credibly 
informed, that those they call males, when lopped and broke like the rest for one 
er two years, do bear very well: which I am the more apt to believe, as I have 
~ never observed a distinct male or female flower on any of them.” Browne, Lc. 
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