398 POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Melakuca. 



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 Cajujmti 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 Cajiipuii they are sericeous. 



3. M. viridiflora. Gcert. Sem. i. 173. Smith, in Trans, of 

 Linn. Soc. n\. p. 275. Willd. iii. 1429. 



Branchiets 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 Molucca. 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 branchiets 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. Gertn round, hid in the calyx. Style as 

 long as the stamens. Stiyma simple. Capsules hid in the 

 globular calyx, Mhich it adheres to, three-celled, three-valv- 

 ed, somewhat downy. Seeds numerous, minute, clavate, an- 

 gular, somewhat winged. 



