BY MARTIN JACOBSON AND HL HALLER In the course of investigations to find new insecticides of vegetable origin, a sample of the essential oil distilled from the leaves of Eugenia haitiensis Krug. 8r Urb.(family Myrtaceae) was received through the American Embassy in Portau-Prince, Haiti. E. haitiensis is a tree reported to grow only in Haiti, where a kerosene solution of the essential oil is used by natives as an insecticide against flies, ...