TAXONOMY 



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Flowers regular or very rarely irregular from the lop-sided devel- 

 opment of the stamens. Symmetry rarely hexamerous, typically 

 pentamerous, not infrequently reduced to tetramerous (Clove) ; sepals 

 five, six or four, aposepalous, or synsepalous at base, superior, and 

 inserted around the edge of an expanded, upgrown receptacular 

 disc, varying from green and more or less expanded to short, thick 

 fleshy (Clove) or reduced to teeth (Eucalyptus) ; petals equal in num- 

 ber to the sepals, more or less petaloid and enlarged, rarely reduced 

 and wanting, varying in color from green through greenish-yellow 

 to white (Eugenia species) or from whitish to pink, scarlet, crimson, 

 purple and blue', petals sometimes synpetalous and cup-like, detach- 

 ing as the flower opens; stamens usually indefinite and epigynous, 

 varying in the color of their filaments as do the petals; pistil rarely 

 of ten to six carpels usually of five, not infrequently, as in Clove, of 

 four carpels; ovary inferior or semi-inferior, as many-celled as there 

 are carpels and with central placentation; style elongate; stigma 

 undivided. Fruit either a hard, woody indeshicent nut (Brazil 

 Nut), a capsule dehiscing at apex (Eucalyptus) dr berry (Eugenia). 

 Seeds exalbuminous. 



Official drug 

 Eucalyptus 

 Eucalyptol 

 Caryophyllus 

 Eugeinol 

 Pimenta N.F, 



Part used 



Leaves 

 Organic oxide 

 Flower buds 

 Aromatic phenol 

 Fruit 



Botanical origin Habitat 



Eucalyptus globulus 1 Australia, 

 Eucalyptus globulus / Tasmania 

 Eugenia aromatica 

 Eugenia aromatica 

 Pimerta officinalis 



Molucca Islands 



Oleum Cajuputi Volatile oil from 

 leaves and twigs 

 Unofficial 



Myrcia Volatile oil and 



leaves 



Eucalyptus Kino Inspissated juice 



Melaleuca 

 Leucadendron 



Myrcia acris 



Eucalyptus rostrata 

 and other species 



West indies; 

 Central America, 

 Mexico 

 East Indies 



West Indies 



Australia 



Combretacece or Myrobalans Family. Mostly tropical shrubs 

 and trees containing considerable tannin. Leaves exstipulate, 

 alternate or opposite, simple, pinnately veined, entire or toothed. 

 Inflorescence a raceme, spike or head. Flowers regular, perfect 



