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) or berry {Eugenia). 
Seeds exalbuminous. 
Official drug 
Part used’ 
Botanical origin 
Habitat 
Eucalyptus 
Leaves 
Eucalyptus globulus ] 
Australia, 
Eucalyptol 
Organic oxide 
Eucal> ptus globulus i 
Tasmania 
Caryophyllus 
Flower buds 
Eugenia aromatica 1 
j> Molucca Islands 
Eugenol 
Aromatic phenol 
Eugenia aromatica 
Pimenta N.F. 
Fruit 
Pimerta officinalis 
West Indies, 
Central America, 
Mexico 
Oleum Cajuputi 
Unofficial 
Volatile oil from 
leaves and twigs 
Melaleuca 
Leucadendron 
East Indies 
Myrcia 
Volatile oil and 
leaves 
Myrcia acris 
West Indies 
Eucalyptus Kino 
Inspissated juice 
Eucalyptus rostrata 
and other species 
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 
