394 POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.  Welaleuca, 
ovula in each, attached to the axis, Style the iength of the 
stamina, Stigma large, and clammy. : 
POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
MELALEUCA. Linn. Gert. Smith, §e. 
Calyx five-parted, semi-superior, Corol five-petalled. Sta- 
mina about forty-five, very long, conjoined in five bodies. 
Style smgle. Capsules three-celled. Seeds numerous. 
1. M. Cajuputi. Pharm. Lond, 1809.* 
Branchlets pendulous. Leaves alternate, sub-vertical, nar- 
row-lanceolar, three, rarely five-nerved. Spikes terminal and 
axillary, comose, villous, Bractes lanceolate, three-flowered. ~ 
Arbor alba minor, Cajuputi, Daun kitsjil, and Caju-Rilon, 
Rumph. Amb. ii. p. 76. t. 17 of. 1. 
This elegant, useful, smal] tree, is a native of the Moluc- 
ca Islands; and as it is from its leaves that the valuable me- 
dicine called Cajuputi oil is obtained, it became an object of 
importance to try if it would grow in Bengal, where the me- 
dicine is frequently used with the best success. During my 
absence at the Cape of Good Hope, on account of bad health 
in 1798, Dr. John Fleming had charge of the Botanic gar- 
den ; at the same time Mr. Smith, the nurseryman, was em- 
ployed on the Molucca Islands, collecting plants for the gar- 
, den, consequently it was an excellent time for obtaining grow- 
* ‘With the compilers of the Pidrmasspoia of the Royal College 
of Physicians of London for 1809, I agree in supposing the essen- 
tial oil called Cajuputi is prepared from the leaves of the small 
Melaleuca called by Rhumphius Arbor alba minor ; and also that 
this tree is specifically different from his Arbor alba major, Herb. 
Amb. ii. p. 72. t. 16. ( Melaleuca Leucadendron, ) but I think the 
trivial name Cajuputi, which they have given to this species, may 
lead to a wrong conclusion, because that Malay ae 
directly that of Arbor alba major. ee 
