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Pimenta officinalis, Berg. (Eugenia Pimenta, DC.). Allspice. Pimento. Figs. 2949, 2950. Distinguished from the other species by the oblong lvs., 4-lobed calyx and globose drupe. Tree, 30-40 ft. high: lvs. 2-6 in. long; petiole 1/2 in- long: fls. 3 lines long: drupe 3 lines thick. Cuba, Jamaica, Mex., Cent. Amer. B.M. 1236 (as Myrtus Pimenta, var. longifolia).
P. acris, Kostel., the bayberry or bay-rum tree is by some separated in the genus Amomis (A. caryophyllata, Krug & Urb.), a shrub or small tree in the W. Indies, Venezuela, and Guiana, from the dried lvs. of which (and probably also from other myrtaceous plants) the bay oil or oil of myrica is distilled: bark separating in shreds or plates: lvs. shining above, very aromatic.
L. H. B.
Pimpernell: Anagallis.
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