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The tree which bears the jamaica pepper, pimentae baccae pimento berries pimento, piper caryophyllatum seu odora tum jamaicense seu jamaicense seu tabas cum coc'culi indi aromatici, amo mim pimentam fructus pimenti, carive cayophyllus Americanus seu pimenta allspice, Poivre de jamaique, Toute epice, Assouron. The unripe berries pimenta have an aromatic odour; resembling a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves; the taste is pungent but mixed like the odour. carminative, the oil-oleun pimentae-possesses the virtues of the berries. The powdered fruit has been called Quatra epices or Four spices. London, Edinburgh and Dublin pharmacopoeias, it is carminative.