694 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



and fleshy; cotyledons thick, more or less conferruminate into a homogeneous mass; 

 radicle very short, turned toward the hilum. 



Eugenia with some five hundred species is common in all tropical regions, with 

 five species reaching the shores of southern Florida; of these four are small trees. 

 Several species are valued for their stimulant and digestive properties; some pro- 

 duce useful timber or edible fruit, and others are cultivated for the beauty of their 

 flowers. Cloves are the flower-buds of Eugenia aromatica, Baill., a native of the 

 Molucca Islands; and Eugenia Jambos^ L., the Rose Apple, of southeastern Asia, is 

 cultivated in all tropical countries as a shade-tree and for its delicately fragrant 

 fruit. 



The generic name commemorates the interest in botany and gardening taken by 

 Prince Eugene of Savoy, who built the Belvidere Palace near Vienna in the begin- 

 ning of the eighteenth century, and made a collection of rare plants in its gardens. 



CONSPECTUS OF THE ARBORESCENT SPECIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Flowers in short solitary or clustered axillary racemes. 



Leaves ovate or obovate, rounded at the apex, short-petiolate ; fruit subglobose to short- 

 oblong, black, \' in diameter. 1. E. buxif olia (D). 



Leaves ovate, contracted at the apex into broad points, distinctly petiolate ; fruit globose, 

 black. \ in diameter. 2. E. axillaris (D). 



Flowers in axillary fascicles. 



Leaves usually broadly ovate, narrowed at the apex into short points, subcoriaceous ; 

 fruit subglobose, rather broader than high, |'-1' in diameter, becoming black at 

 maturity. 3. E. rhombea (D). 



Leaves ovate-oblong, narrowed at the apex into long points, coriaceous ; fruit subglobose 

 to obovate, '-' long, bright scarlet. 4. E. confusa (D). 



1. Eugenia buxifolia, Willd. Gurgeon Stopper. Spanish Stopper. 



Leaves ovate or obovate, rounded at the apex, sessile or narrowed into short thick 

 petioles, occasionally slightly and remotely crenulate-serrate above the middle, thick 



and coriaceous, dark green on the upper, yellow-green and marked with minute black 

 dots on the lower surface, V 1^' long and about 1' broad, with narrow conspicuous 

 midribs, usually unfolding in November and remaining on the branches until the 



