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 ; B. dis- 

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

 coffee in the Antilles; E. glabrata,^ 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 Arrabidoe,^ which have a bark esteemed in 

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

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

 to produce the bark introduced into Europe under the name of 

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

 rheumatic, and antisyphilitic ; E. guineensis and terebinthacea, 

 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. InalacGensis,^^ having all the 

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

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

 the same uses ; Decaspermum rubrum,^^ 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. piero- 



^ W. Spec. ii. 964. — DO. Prodr.n. 151. — Ro- Schambu Ehbed. Sort. Malah. i. t. 17 {Jamero- 



SBNTH. op. cit. 927. — Myrtus fragrems Sw. Fl. sier, Jambosier domestique, Jamberosade, Fommier- 



Ind. Occ. 914. rose). 



3 DC. Frodr. n. 96.— Jf. disticha Sw. Fl. Ind. " L. Spec. 672.— Lamk. Diet. iii. 196.— Cork. 



Ooc. 894. — Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 867. — Linpl. Coll. Ann. Mus. ix. 292, t. 26, fig. 2. — Jambosa 



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



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



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



* Maht. exRosENTH. op. ci^. 928 {Guabiroba), i. t. 18. 



o Bbkg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrtac. 255, n. 110. 12 Bl. Bijdr. 1087. — Jamibosa densiflora DO. 



— ? F. campestris Velloz. Prodr. iii. 287, n. 13. — Eosenth. op. cit. 932 



' Bero, ex RoSENTH. op. cit. 928. — B. crenata 



Velloz. '' Roxb. Cat. Sort. Calo. 37. — Rumph. Serb. 



7 DC. Prodr. n. 184. — MyHus dwnetorum Amb. i. 126, t. 38, fig. 2. — DO. Prodr. n. 17.— 



PoiR. — M. trimervia, Lotjr. (not Sm.). — Nelitris Ceroearpus aqueus Hassk. 



trinervia Spbkno. Syst. ii. 488. '* Nelitris rubra 'Bii.—Caryophyllaster ruber 



' Syzygimn (?) caryophylleeum G^rtn. — DC. Ettmph. JT. alba Bl. and polygama Sprenq. 



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



s Syzygivm zeylanicum DC. Frodr. iii. 260, n. " Mol. Cliil. (ed. fr.) 133. — DO. Prodr. iii. 



15.— (S. Belluta DO. Frodr. n. 26 ?— Myrtus zey- 239, n. 9.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. Z'iQ.—Mugenia 



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



" L. SiJec. 672.— -F. JiwreJoo EoxB. Cat. Sort. Mag. t. 4626 {Uni, Murtello). The fruit is 



Oalc. 38. — Myrtus Jambosa H. B. K. — Jambosa called Murta. 

 ))ulgaris DC. Prodr. iii. 286, n. 1. — Malacca- 



