ORD. XXIX. HESPERIDEZ. 
MELALEUCA CAJUPUTI. : LESSER CAJEPUT TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Melaleuca Cajuputi. Roxb. Cat. p.59. Melaleuca minor. 
Sm. in Rees. Cycl. n.2. Decand. Prodr. v.3. p.2i2. Arbor alba minor. 
- Rumph. Amb. v. 2. p. 76. t.17. (f.1. Roxb. et forsan f.2. Decand.) 
Class XVIII. Polyadelphia. Ord. IIT. Icosandria. 
Nat. Ord. Hesperidez, Linn, Myrti, Juss. Myrtacee, Decand. 
Gen. Char. Calyx five-parted, semi-superior ; corolla five-petaled ; stamens 
(about forty-five) very long, conjoined in five bodies ; style rig i capsule 
three-celled ; seeds numerous. 
Spee. Char. Branchlets pendulous ; leaves alternate, shortly petioled, ellip- 
tic-lanceolate, three and five-ribbed ; spikes terminal and axillary, comose, 
villous ; dracteas lanceolate, three-flowered ; young branches and germens 
downy. 
THIS very elegant tree is a native of the Molucca Islands; it is of a small 
size, seldom attaining a greater height than twenty feet. The ¢runk is tole- 
rably erect, but crooked, and slender, when considered in reference to the 
age* of the tree; the dark is of a very light or whitish ash colour, soft, thick, 
and spongy, pretty smooth on the surface; the exterior lamina peels off 
from time to time in thin flakes, like the birch tree, whilst the interior bark 
* When twenty years old the thickest part of the tree not exceeding the circumference 
of a man’s leg. 
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