344 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



the bark of whicli is employed in the treatment of pains produced by 

 the rough evening winds; E. fragrans,^ of Jamaica, the aromatic 

 leaves of which are recommended for pains and contusions ; E. dis- 

 ticha,^ the fruit and perfumed leaves of which bear the name of wild 

 coffee in the Antilles ; E. glahrata,^ which, in the same islands, has 

 a certain reputation as aromatic and acidulous ; E. variabilis ^"^ re- 

 puted in Brazil as salutary in cases of diarrhoea, flux, and vesical 

 catarrh ; E. Vellozii^ and Arrahidce,^ which have a bark esteemed in 

 *the same country as aromatic and astringent ; E, dumetorum,'^ having 

 the same uses among the Cochinchinese ; E. caryopJiyllcea,^ reported 

 to produce the bark introduced into Europe under the name of 

 Cassia caryophyllata ; E. zeylanica,^ renowned as a stimulant, anti- 

 rheumatic, and antisyphilitic ; E. guineensis and terehinthacea^ 

 having a similar reputation in Senegal and at the Cape ; E. Jambos ^° 

 (fig. 286, 287), the bark of which is reputed in the Indian Archipe- 

 lago as a good astringent ; E. lineata and linearis, employed in Java 

 for making gargles for the throat ; E. malaccensis,^^ having all the 

 properties of E. JamhoSj as likewise E. densiflora^^ and aquea]^^ 

 most of the Guyavas, which, in tropical America, have commonly 

 the same uses ; Decaspermum ruhrum,^'^ in Molucca applied to gum 

 affections ; Myrtus ugni,^^ an aromatic and stimulant species which 

 the Chilians esteem in the form of tea, and M. nummularia and 

 microphylla, also employed by them for the same purpose ; M. picro- 



1 W. Spec. ii. 964.— DC. Frodr. n. 151. — Ro- Schambu Eheed. Hort. Malab. i. t. 17 [Jamero- 

 SENTH. op. cit. 927. — Myrtus fragrans Sw. Fl. sier,Jambosierdomestiqiie,Jamberosade,Fommier- 

 Ind. Occ. 914. rose). 



2 DC. Frodr. n. 96.— if. disticha Sw. Fl. Ind. ^^ L. Spec. 672.— Lamk. Diet. iii. 196.— Cork. 

 Occ. 894.— Sims, £ot. Mag. t. 867.— Linpl. Coll. Ann. Mus. ix. 292, t. 25, fig. 2. — Jambosa 

 t. 19. — M. horizontalis Vent. Malm. t. 60. Malaccensis DC. Frodr. n. 6. — Hook. Bot. Mag. 



3 DC. Frodr. n. 97. — Myrtus glabrata Sw. Fl. i. 4408. — J. nigra Rumph. Herb. Amb. i. t. 37, 

 Ind. Occ. 903 (not Bl.). 38, fig. 1 — Nati-Schambu Rheed. Hort. Malab. 



4 Mart. exEosENTH. op. cit. ^2% (Guabiroba), i t. 18. 



5 Berg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrtac. 255, n. 110. 12 Bl. Bijdr. 1087. — Jambosa densiflora DC 

 — ? F. campestris Velloz. Frodr. iii. 287, n. 13. — Rosenth. op. cit. 932 



^ Berg, ex Rosenth. op. cit. 928. — E.crenata (Jatnbon). 



Velloz. ^^ Roxb. Cat. Hort. Calc. 37. — Rumph. Herb. 



7 DC. Frodr. n. 184. — Myrtus dumetorum Amb. i. 126, t. 38, fig. 2.— DC. Frodr. n. 17.— 



PoiR. — M.trinerviaJjOVR. (not Sm.). — Nelitris Cerocarpus aqueus Hassk. 



trinervia Spreng. Syst. ii. 488. ^"^ Nelitris rubra Bl. — Caryophyllaster ruber 



^ Syzygium (?) caryophyllceum G-ERTN. — DC. Rumph. N. alba Bl. and polygama Spreng. 



Frodr. n. 14. — Rosenth. op. cit. 930. have analogous properties. 



9 Syzygium zeylanicum DC. Frodr. iii. 260, n. ^^ Mol. Chil. (ed. fr.) 133.— DC. Frodr. iii. 



15.— S. Belluta DC. Frodr. n. 26 ^—Myrtus zey- 239, n. 9.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. Zl^.— Eugenia 



lanica L. Spec. 675. Ugni Hook, and Arn. Bot. Misc. iii. 318, — Bot. 



^0 Jj, Spec. 672.— F.JambooHoxB. Cat. Hort. Mag. t. 4626 {Uni, Murtello). The fruit is 



Calc. 38. — Myrtus Jambosa H, B. K. — Jambosa called Murta. 

 vulgaris DC. Frodr. iii. 286, n. 1. — Malacca- 



