344 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



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

 the rough evening winds ; E. fragrans, 1 of Jamaica, the aromatic 

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

 ticha, 2 the fruit and perfumed leaves of which bear the name of wild 

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

 a certain reputation as aromatic and acidulous ; E. variabilis, 41 re- 

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

 catarrh ; E. Vellozii 5 and Arrabidœ, 6 which have a bark esteemed in 

 the same country as aromatic and astringent ; E. dumetorumf having 

 the same uses among the Cochinchinese ; E. ca/ryophyllœa* repoi'ted 

 to produce the bark introduced into Europe under the name of 

 Cassia caryophyllata ; E. zeylanica, 9 renowned as a stimulant, anti- 

 rheumatic, and antisyphilitic ; E. guineensis and terebinthacea, 

 having a similar reputation in Senegal and at the Cape; E. Jambos 1 " 

 (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. malac-censis, 11 having all the 

 properties of E. Jambos, as likewise E. densiflora u and aquea'^ 

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

 the same uses ; Decaspermum rubrum, 14 ' in Molucca applied to gum 

 affections ; Myrtus ugni, 15 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. Prodr. n. 151. — Ro- Schamhu Eheed. Sort. Malab. i. t. 17 (Jamero- 



8ENTH. op. cit. 927. — Myrtus fragrans Sw. Fl. su>r,Jambosier domestique, Jamberosade, Pommier- 



Ind. Occ. 914. rose). 



3 DC. Prodr. n. 96.— M. disticha Sw. Fl. Ind. " L.Spec. 672.— Lamk. Diet. iii. 196.— Corb. 



Occ. 894. — Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 867.— Linpl. Coll. Ann. Mils. ix. 292, t. 25, fig. 2. — Jambosa 



t. 19. — M. horizontalis Vent. Malm. t. 60. Malacccnsis DC. Prodr. n. 6. — Hook. Pot. Mag. 



3 DC. Prodr. n. 97.—Myrtas glubrata Sw. Fl. t. 4408.— J. nigra Eumph. Herb. Arab. i. t. 37, 



Ind. Occ. 903 (not Bl.). 38, fig. 1 — Nati-Sehambu Eheed. Sort. Malab. 



* Mart. exEosENTH. op. «Y. 928 (Gnabiroba). i. t. 18. 



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

 — ? E. campcstris Velloz. Prodr. iii. 287, n. 13. — Eosenth. op. cit. 932 



6 Berg, ex Rosenth. op. cit. 928. — E.crenata {Jambon). 



Velloz. 13 Eoxb. Cat. Sort. Calc. 37. — Eumph. Serb. 



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

 Poir. — M. trinervia Lour, (not S.M.). — Nelitris Cerocarpus oqueus Hassk. 



trinenia Spreng. Syst. ii. 488. 14 Nelitris rubra Bl. — Caryophyllaster ruber 



8 Syzygium (?) caryophyllœttm GiERTN. — DC. Eumph. N. alba Bl. and polygama Spreng. 

 Prodr. n. 14. — Eosenth. op. cit. 930. have analogous properties. 



9 Syzygium zeylanicum DC. Prodr. iii. 260, n. 15 Mol. Chil. (éd. fr.) 133.— DC. Prodr. iii. 

 15.—*. Belluta DC. Prodr. n. 2d?— Myrtus zey- 239, n. 9.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. 379.— Eugenia 

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



10 L. Spec. 672. — F. Jamboo Eoxb. Cat. Sort. Mag. t. 4620 (Z7Kt, Mtirtello). The fruit is 

 Calc. 38. — Myrtus Jambosa H. B. K. — Jambosa called Mur ta. 



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



