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MeLALeuca Frasert. Mr. Fraser’s | 
| MELALEUCA. 
Class and Order. 
PoLyaDELPHIA POoLYANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Myrracez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calycis tubus subhemisphericus, limbus 5-partitus. Pe- 
tala 5. Staminum phalanges totidem elongate, petalis 
opposite. Stylus fiiformis Stigma obtusam. <Anthere 
incumbentes. Capsula calycis tubo incrassato et ramo basi 
adnato connata et inclusa, 3-locul., polysperma. Semina 
angulata.—Arbores aut Frutices, plurime ex Nova Hol- 
landia, pauce ex India Orient. Folia alterna aut opposita, 
bast equalia. Flores omnino sessiles aut subadnati, spica- 
ti aut capitati, albi, flavidi aut purpurascentes. DC. 
Specific Name and Character, 
Me xarevuca Fraseri ; foliis alternis lineari-subulatis com- 
pressis enerviis patenti-recurvis mucrone acuminatis 
basi attenuatis, spicis ovali-globosis terminalibus, pha- 
langibus 12—14-andris, unguibus corolla longioribus. 
‘i. 
Descr. A lowly, much branched shrub, with many short, 
opposite, or subverticillate branches, bearing, generally, 
towards their extremities, rather crowded, alternate, quite 
glabrous, linear-subulate, compressed, reflexo-patent leaves, 
slightly attenuate at the base, acuminate with a mucro at 
the 
* ptras, black, and arsvxos, white; the same as Caja-puti, or white tree, the 
name of the original species in the Malay language, and thence also called 
LEUCADENDRON and Arbor alba. 
