MELALEUCA LrucAD=NpRON. ORD, XXIX. stesperidee, 545 
THIS tree rises with a long. flexible trunk, sending off irregular 
ascending branches, covered with a ‘pale thick lamellated. tough 
Dark. Leaves linearly-Janceolate, entire, smooth, dense,. five; 
nerved, ash-coloured, . odorous, alternate, ; on short footstalks. 
Flowers white, sessile, in long subterminal spikes. Bractez floral, 
minute, ovate, pointed. Calyx tubular, five-parted, deciduous, of 
a brownish red, , Corolla of five. petals, roundish, concave, much 
longer than the calyx. OE ilaments about. forty, united at the, base 
In five or six bundles, long, capillary, unequal, inserted in the 
tube of the calyx, and. furnished with small ovate incumbent 
anthere, _Germen below, roundish, Style. filiform, somewhat 
‘swelled at’ the stigma. _. Capsule roundish, three-celled,, _ three- 
valved, ‘opening at the apex, and half inclosed by the rH 
Seeds numerous, oblong, small, compressed, angular. |. 
_ It is a native of India, where it commonly g grows. in the von: 
the, annexed figure was drawn from a. very;, perfect, botanical 
‘Specimen of it,in the herbarium, of Sir Joseph Banks. The narrow 
leaved. variety of this species was introduced into the. Royal 
Garden at Kew, in, 17 75, from New Caledonia,, by J. R. BAT 
LL: 0. 
The origin of Conee oil or. the vegelable com, i, + 
aeatiabe: re this pet, ten tie is. ad to be. somewhat sionilar.in 
flavour and odour to the. cardamom, an opinion. very generally 
prevailed, that it was, procured from a species of it... Iti is now 
however clearly proved to be. derived from, the Melaleuca, Leu- 
cadendron, as observed by Linnzus 1 in 1772, ° and since. confirmed 
by his son in the supp. plant. 
That the leavés of this tree have’an aromatic: odour, resembling 
sae ame cardamom: seed, and afford; ey shales) a: griie 
me = This Jeudin and is.given. on ‘the siabenlian of: De, fb igy Gos ya 
ED ae oes Hort. Kei, comnts’ a 
: « Diss obs. in M. M. p. rs 
No. 46.—~von, 4. ee 6x 
