398 POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, Melaleuca. 
same age are very much alike, but the leaves of this species 
are larger, more falcate, and possess little or no fragrance 
when bruised, nor can I discover that they are ever employ- 
ed in the distillation of the Cajuputi oil ; to those obvious 
marks of distinction in the young tree I may add that all the 
most tender shoots, leaves, &c. are here perfectly smooth ; 
while in Cajuputi they are sericeous, 
3. M. viridiflora. Gert, Sem. i. 173. Smith, in Trans. of 
Linn, Soe. iii. p. 275. Willd. iii. 1429. 
Branchleis erect. Leaves alternate, lanceolar, five-nerv- 
ed, Spikes terminal, downy. Flowers tern. 
4, M. Leucadendron, B. Linn, Suppl. 342. 
A large tree, a native of Pulo Pinang, and the peninsula 
of Molucea, The leaves of the trees which grow in those 
places are when preserved in the specimens sent to me, void 
of fragrance, 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, five- 
nerved, with many delicate, anostomosing veins between 
them, of a firm rigid texture, and smooth on both sides, from 
two to four inches long, and less than one broad, Stipules 
none. Spikes terminal and axillary, often compound, tufted, 
before the flowers expand imbricated with bractes, a little 
downy. Bractes oblong, sessile, three-flowered ; the ex- 
‘treme ones barren, and from their centre the branchlets con- 
tinue to shoot. | Flowers numerous, small. Calyx above, 
five-parted ; divisions of the border rounded, and deciduous. 
Petals sessile, round, concave scarcely larger than the divi- 
sion of the calyx, Filaments from thirty to fifty, united near 
the base into five erect bodies, Anthers small, incumbent, 
oval, two-lobed. Germ round, hid in the calyx. Style as 
long as the stamens. Stigma simple. Capsules hid in the 
globular calyx, which it adheres to, three-celled, three-valv- 
ed, somewhat downy. Seeds numerous, minute, ‘dpe an- 
gular, somewhat winged. 
