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SPICES 
CHAP. IV 
nearly 1 in. long, thickened at the base. The leaves 
are very aromatic, being full of minute oil glands, just 
visible with an ordinary lens as green dots on the 
lower surface. 
The presence of these oil glands makes the leaves 
very fragrant when crushed, and on a damp, hot evening 
the scent of a clove tree can be detected a considerable 
distance away. 
The flowers are produced in the latter half of the 
year, and are borne on the ends of the branches in 
small bunches, consisting of three angular peduncles, 
each of which bears three shortly-stalked flowers on 
the tip. There are small, linear, fleshy bracts to the 
flowers. The whole inflorescence is 1 J in. long. Each 
