58 ORD. X XIX. Hesperidex. MELALEUCA CAJUPUTI. 
may be separated into numerous laminz, like the leaves of a book. Branches 
scattered, with slender twigs, often drooping as those of the weeping willow ; 
they are rounded and smooth, their young shoots sericeous. The leaves are 
alternate, and point in every direction, narrowly lanceolate, shortly petioled, 
and, while young, sericeous; but, when full-grown, glabrous, deep green, 
three or five-nerved, sometimes slightly faleate; their entire length is from 
three to five inches, and from half to three quarters of an inch broad. On 
being bruised, they smell powerfully of the substance they yield: yet the 
cells which contain this aromatic fluid, are scarcely visible in the fresh 
leaves. The flowers are produced in terminal spikes, and from the extreme 
axils, downy ; while the flowers are young, there is a scaly cone at the apex, 
which soon advances into a leafy branchlet. Bracteas solitary, lanceolate, 
sericeous, three-flowered, caducous. Flowers ternate, sessile, small, white, in- 
odorous. Calyx urceolate, semi-superior, sericeous, margin of five semi-lunar 
segments. Petals five, orbicular, short-clawed, white, much longer than the 
segments of the calyx. Filaments from thirty to forty, united into five seg- 
ments at the base, three or four times longer than the petals, and with 
them, inserted into the large, villous, five-lobed rim of the calyx, alternate 
with its segments. Anthers ovato-cordate, with a yellow gland on the apex. 
Germen ovate, united to the calyx, three-celled, with numerous ovules in 
each, attached to an elevated receptacle in the inner and lower angle of each 
cell. Style rather longer than the stamens. Stigma obscurely three-lobed. 
Capsule completely enveloped in the thick, fleshy, gibbous, permanent tube 
of the calyx, three-lobed, three-celled, three-valved. . Valves thin, hard, and 
elastic, opening from the apex ; partitions contrary; receptacles triangular, 
thin, flat, lodged in the inner and lower angle of the cell. . Seeds numerous, 
regularly wedge-shaped. Figure (a) the flower, (8) the germen, style and 
stigma, (c) section of the germen. 
- The beautiful green essential oil of commerce, known by the name of ca- 
juput oil, was formerly supposed to be the produce of the Melaleuca leuco- 
dendr on (Linn. Mant.); butit appears, from the specimens of the tree yield- 
ing the true cajuputi, sent home by Mr. Christopher Smith, that the species 
is different, and referable to Table 17 of Rumphius’s Herbarium Amboinense 
(vol. ii.) and not to that author’s arbor alba, t.16. After the careful exami- 
nation of specimens in the Linnean Herbarium, by Sir James E. Smith, and 
in Sir Joseph Banks’s and other collections, by Dr. Maton, we are authorized 
