‘The Myrtacee are valuable as warm carminatives, and 
even as stimulants. Cajuput oil is the volatile oil obtained 
from Melaleuca minor (M. Cajuputi), formerly referred to 
M. Leucadendron ; 3 it is a very powerful local and general 
stimulant. Myrtus Pimenta and Eugenia caryophyllata are 
valued as carminatives. 
Officinal Planis. 
Punica Granatum. Myrtus Pimenta (Eugenia P.) 
‘Eucalyptus resinifera. Melaleuca minor. 
Caryophyllus aromaticus. 
ORDER CV. 
SALICARIE. 
Lythracee, Lindley. 
Cuaracrers.—Herbs with opposite leaves, and some- 
times quadrangular stems ; a monosepalous, tubular, tooth- 
ed, or lobed calyx ; deciduous petals placed between the 
lobes of the calyz ; stamens, the same number as, or some 
multiple of, the petals, and inserted below them on the 
calyx ; ; anthers adnate ; ovary superior, 2- or 4-celled, with a 
Simple style and stigma, and many seeds: a capsular de- 
hiscent pericarp, generally 1-celled, and covered by the 
x, and the seeds adhering to a central placenta. 
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