MYRTACEAE. 255 
PIMENTA. Allspice. 
(Family Myrtaceae). 
Aromatic trees: evergreen. 
Twigs moderate, decussately com- 
pressed and lined, or even winged, 
from the nodes: pith compressed, 
spongy, brown. Buds usually su- 
perposed, sessile or the upper be- 
coming stalked, naked. Leaf-scars 
opposite, half-round or _ broader, 
minutely black-fringed at top, not 
raised except as the nodes are 
dilated: bundle-trace 1, large but 
indefinite: stipule-scars lacking. 
Leaves simple, entire, pellucid- 
punctate. 
Some botanists place allspice in 
the genus Eugenia, the flower-buds 
of which constitute the cloves of 
commerce. Both Pimenta and 
Eugenia exemplify well the aroma- 
tic property which forms one of 
the myrtaceous characters. 
Glabrous: twigs green, glandular-punctuate. | P. officinalis. 
