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This rites with a tree-like ftem from twenty to thirty 
feet high, covered with a brown bark, and fending out 
many branches. Leaves oblong, ending in acute points, 
oppofite ; when young of a bright purple colour, but as 
they grow older becoming of a light green ; the flowers 
are produced on the fides of the branches ; every pedun¬ 
cle branching into three Or four others, each of which 
fupportsone flower ; fruit fucculent, irregularly fhaped, 
and inclofing a tingle nut: Loiireiro calls it a berry ; it 
js of a rounditli form, commonly obtufely quadrangular ; 
fomctimes it is ovate; in fize it is an inch and half in 
diameter, flefliy, very fweet, fmelling like the rofe, not 
very juicy; covered with a thin, (liining, yellowifh (ktn ; 
and containing commonly one feed, which is large, 
rounditli, foftifli, not bony or horny ; the fruit is very 
agreeable to the tatle, fmell and fight, and is efteemed 
wholefome: Fortier defcribes it as whitifh, tinged with 
rofe-colour, pear-thaped, and fometimes as big as the fitf, 
but ufually much fmaller. It is very common in mod 
of the iflands in the South Sea, and is cultivated almoft 
every where between the tropics. Mr. Miller cultivated 
it here in 176S; he fays that he received it from Dr. 
Heberden, with fome other plants, from Brafil. 
2. Eugenia jambos, or narrow-leaved eugenia : leaves 
quite entire ; peduncles branched, terminating. Tjiis 
rifes to the fame height, but the leaves are longer and 
narrower. Flowers'greenifh yellow : fruit pear-fhaped, 
two inches long, white and red, having no fmell. Na¬ 
tive of the Ealt-Indies and Cochinchina. It flowers from 
May to July. 
3. Eugenia pfeudo-pfidium, or baftard eugenia: leaves 
quite entire ; peduncles one-flowered feveral lateral and 
’terminating. This is an upright tree twenty feet high, 
in appearance not unlike a pear-tree ; fruit globular, at 
firft green, then palling through the different (hades of yel¬ 
low as it ripens, till at length it becomes fcarlet ; it is 
fcarcely half an inch in diameter, the fkin is thin, and 
the pulp is foft, fweet and red : the feed is large and glo¬ 
bular. . Native of Martinico, where it is called goyavier 
batard. It flowers in October, and bears fruit in Decem¬ 
ber and January. 
4. Eugenia uniflora, or one-flowered eugenia : leaves 
quite entire, cordate lanceolate ; peduncles one-flowered, 
lateral. Flowers white ; fruit bright red, loft, (lightly 
grooved, and having a fweet fmell. It was firft brought 
from Goa, and cultivated in the grand duke’s garden 
near Florence ; whence it came into the public botanic 
gardens of Florence and Pi fa about the year 1718. 
5. Eugenia cotinifolia, orolive-leaved eugenia : leaves 
ovate, obtufe, quite entire ; peduncles one-flowered. 
Fruit globular fucculent, inclofing a Angle (Fining mem¬ 
branaceous nut, having one feed in it. Native of Cay¬ 
enne, where it is called by the French cerifer de Cayenne. 
6. Eugenia acutangula, or pointed eugenia : leaves 
crenate ; peduncles terminating; fruits oblong acute- 
angled pomes. Leaves at the ends of the branches, ex¬ 
actly like thofe of the horfe-chefnut, obovate, (harpilh, 
very finely toothed : Loureiro fays, it is a large tree with 
fpreading branches. Native of the Eaft-Indies, and of 
Cochinchina. 
7. Eugenia racemofa, or racemed eugenia: leaves 
crenate ; racemes very long ; pomes ovate, quadrangu¬ 
lar. Native not only of India, but of New Caledonia in 
the South Seas. Juffieu refers the two laft fpecies to 
other genera ; the 6th to Stravadium, and this to Buto- 
nica ; both having alternate leaves, and many flowers 
together in racemes. 
8. Eugenia fefliliflora, or fefflle eugenia : flowers late¬ 
ral, feflile ; leaves oblong, quite entire, (liining, dotted 
underneath. Fruit the lize of a plum, globular, dotted., 
Obferved in the ifland of Santa Cruz by Weft. 
9. Eugenia punCtata, or fpctted eugenia : leaves ob¬ 
long, dotted on both fides ; peduncles oppofite three- 
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flowered, the length of the leaves. Obferved in the 
ifland of Santa Cruz by von Rohr and Weft. Vahl 
doubts whether it be any thing more than a varie y of 
myrtus fragrans, with which it agrees in many circurn- 
ftances. It differs only in having the peduncles con- 
ftuntly axillary and three-flowered, not terminating and 
three-parted, with three-flowered pedicels, as in myrtus 
fragrans : the leaves alfo are on longer petioles. It feems 
to differ from Eug. Guianenfis of Aublet in having the pe¬ 
duncles the fame length with the leaves,and larger flowers. 
10. Eugenia nervofa, or nerved eugenia : leaves quite 
entire ; flowers heaped, terminating ; ber.ries globular 
nerved, n. Eugenia corticofa, or cortical eugenia: 
leaves ovate, acuminate, racemed, ccrymbed ; filaments 
very (bort. Natives of Cochinchina in woods. 
Jacquin lias another fpecies, which lie names Eugenia 
Carthagenenfis, with two varieties of it, barueufis and 
myrtifolia. 
Propagation and Culture. Set the ftones, frefh from their 
places of natural growth, in fnrall pots filled with light 
earth ; plunge them in a hot-bed, obferving to keep the 
earth moift, but not wet. In about fix weeks the plants 
willappear; when about four inches high, feparate them 
carefully, plant each in a fmall pot, plunge them in the 
hot,bed again, and ftiade them carefully till they have 
taken new root. Treat them in the fame way as other 
tender plants from the fame countries, keeping them 
plunged in the tan-bed, and in winter watering them 
iparingly. 
EUGE'NIA, the name of a woman. 
EUGE'NIUS, [evy, good, and yua<;, Gr. a kind.] A 
man’s name. 
EU'GENY,/. [=vy£ma,Gr. jNoblenefs of birth or blood. 
EUGH,yi [This word is fo written by moll writers ; 
but fince the original ip, Saxon, or Welfti yezvn , more fa¬ 
vours the eafier orthography of yew, Johnfon refers it 
thither. ] A tree : 
At the firft ftretch of both his hands he drew, 
And almoft joined the horns of the tough eugh. Dryd. 
EU'GUBINE TA'BLES,/. in antiquity, eight tables 
of brafs, which were dug up among lome ruins at Igu- 
vium in Hetruria, now Gubbio in Tufcany, in the year 
1444. On thefe tables are infcriptions, in the molt an¬ 
cient Pelafgic characters. Thefe brafs plates had exer- 
cifed the fagaeity of the learned in Italy, immediately 
after their difcovery. Their inquiries Gori purfued in 
his Mufeum Etrufcum , printed at Florence, in 2 vols. folio ; 
and, by joining his learning to the former inquiries, he 
determined the characters ; and, fuppoling the language 
to be the .CEolic Greek, brought into Italy by the Pe- 
lafgi, he attempted an explanation of each word ; and 
found the whole to be a hymn in time of the greateft dif- 
trefs, arifing from a peftilence and famine. This event 
he confirms by a palfage in Dionyfius of Plalicarnaflus, 
who quotes from a more ancient hiftorian, called Myrfi- 
lus the Lefbian, that more than one century before the 
fiege of Troy, fuch a calamity did happen in that part 
of Italy. On thefe grounds, Gori calls the infcription 
on the Eugubine Tables, the Carmen Ortliion. 'The cha¬ 
racters are read from right to left, according to the more 
ancient oriental form, before the Bouftrophedon was ad¬ 
mitted ; which alternate giethod ended in the weftern 
languages, with an entire change of writing from the left 
to the right. The original has no (tops, or punCtuation ; 
and, as well as from the rapid expreftions of diftrefs, 
changing from invocation to defcription, and vice vcrfa , 
as from the imperfect date of language in thofe early pe¬ 
riods, very few, if any, connectives are admitted in the 
broken fentences. This particular form, Gori has ftriCtly 
obferved in his Latin verlion. It may juft be remarked, 
that the opening of the CEdipus Tyrannies of Sophocles, 
with the firft choric ode, together with the firft chapter 
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