394 POLYAi>ELPHiA POLYANDRIA. Melaleuca. 



ovula in each, attached to the axb. Style the length of the 

 stamina. Sligma largo, and clammy. 



POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



MELALEUCA. Linn. Gcert. Smith, cS-c 



Calyx five-parted, semi-superior. Coro/ five-petalled. Sta- 

 mina about forty-five, very long, conjoined in five bodies. 

 Style single. Capsules three-celled. Seeds numerous. 



1. M. Cajuputi. Pharm. Lond. 1809.* 



Branclilets pendulous. Leaves alternate, sub-vertical, nar- 

 row-lanceolar, three, rarely five-nerved. Spikes terminal and 

 axillary, comose, villous, ^rac^es lanceolate, three-flowered. 



Arbor alba minor, Cajuputi, Daun kitf«jil,and Caju-Kilan, 

 Rumph.Jlmh. W.p. 76. t. 17 .f.\. 



This elegant, useful, small 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 Pharmacopa-ia 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. 

 Amh. ii. p. 72. t. 10. (Melaleuca Leucadendron,) but I think the 

 trivial name Cajuputi, which they have given to this species^ may 

 lead to a ^\Tong conclusion, because that Malay appellation is more 

 directly that of Arbor alba major. 



