( 44°) 
The buds, or unexpanded flowers of this plant, are in common ufe 
as a pickle; and for this purpofe the {maller or younger buds are 
mott efteemed. : 
This grateful pickle has the charaéter of an ‘antifcorbutic, and of 
removing hepatic and other vifceral obftructions ; but the part of the 
plant which has been chiefly recommended, for medicinal purpofes, is 
‘the bark of the root. This is of confiderable thicknefs, externally of 
an afh colour, and tranfverfely wrinkled ; on drying it rolls up into - 
quills of shia a third of an inch in diamatier 5 its tafte is fomewhat 
aromatic, bitterifh, and acrid. 
By Diofcorides, and other ancient writers, it was thought of great 
efficacy as a deobftruent, and was generally employed in obftruétions 
of the liver and fpleen, ‘menfrual fuppreffions, and {ciatica; in this 
view it has alfo been ufed by Foreftus’ and Sennertus ;* and on the 
_ prefumption of its deobftruent power, it is reckoned one of the five 
lefs aperient roots: at prefent, however, its ufe is wholly laid afide. 
> Oper. Lib, 20, Obf, 2. & 3. * Prad. Lib. 3. P.4.¢. 2. F 3. 
Son de oP eR Tal EB Me 
- MELALEUCA LEUCADENDRON. — CAJEPUT-TREE, 
Or AROMATIC MELALEUCA, - 
ae 
Cajeput (cleum.) Pharm. Murray. iii. 3 19. Bergius. 6 539. Ed. New 
Difpenf. 153. . 
SYN ON YMA. Arbor alba (major) Caju Puti. ~ Rumph, Herb. 
Amb. vol. 2. p. 72. t. 16. Melaleuca Kajupoetie. Houttuyn Na- 
tuurlyke. Hiftorie. P. 2. Sed. 3. p. 212. t.15. Melal. senicl 
dendra. De Loureiro Flor. Cochin. p- 468. 
« M. latifolia, fol. falcatis lanceolatis acutis majoribus. 
a M. anguftifolia, fol. anguftioribus oblongis Vix falcatis brevioribus 
obtufis glaucis. 
Polyadelphia Polvandria. Lin. Mois I ‘ ee 
Gen. Ch. 
