70 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Malacca (on Mount Opliir) ; Oriffith (K.D. 2339) ; Lohb, Stoliclcza, 

 Maiii g ay (KJ).) 713. Kts^bab, Bidley 534:9. Distrib. — Bangka, Amboina, 

 Moluccas, Borneo, Australia. 



VAR. javanica. Young branches densely sericeous ; calyx-tuhe 

 glabrescent, occasionally very c^ericeous. Leaves obovate-laiiceolate, 

 broadly obtuse, with long silky hairs on the margins and on the midrib 

 beneath. Flowers often crowded. L. javanicum, Blume Bijdr. I.IOO; 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 68 ; DC. Prod. Ill, 229 : Dutbie in Hook. fil. 

 n. Br. Ind. II, 464. L. floribundum, Jungh. Java I, 578 ; Xat. en 

 Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Ind. II, 370; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 404. 

 MacMottia javanica, Korth. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 196. 



Malacca : Grifth. Perak : Wray 330, 885, 3839 : ScortecUni 

 754 : King's Collector 7426, 7435. Distrib. — Sumatra, Java, Celebes, 

 Borneo. Burmah (a single specimen) at Moulmein ; Lohh. This 

 variety is much commoner in the Peninsula than the former. 



3. Melaleuca, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire, lanceo- 

 late or linear, flat or sub terete, 1-3-many-nerved. Floiuers in heads or 

 spikes, each sessile in the axil of a floral leaf, 5-merous ; bracts deci- 

 duous. Calyx-tube subglobose ; lobes 5, imbricate or open, deciduous or 

 persistent. Petals 5, spreading, deciduous. Stamens numerous, more 

 or less united at their bases into 5 bundles opposite the petals ; anthers 

 versatile, the cells parallel and bursting longitudinally. Ovary inferior 

 or half-inferior, enclosed in the tube of the calyx; style filiform, stigma 

 small ; ovules numerous. Capsule included in the calyx, dehiscing 

 loculicidally by 3 valves. Perfect seeds cuneate : embryo straight, 

 longer than the radicle. Distrib. — Species about 130, almost all Austra- 

 lian, but one scattered in Asia. 



Melaleuca Leucadendron, Linn. Mant. 105. A tree often of con- 

 siderable size ; the bark pale, thick, peeling off in papery layers. 

 Branches usually pendulous, slender. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, 

 narrowly oblong-elliptic, oblique or falcate, acuminate acute or obtuse, 

 narrowed below into a sliort petiole, with 3 to 5 or 7 vertical unastomos- 

 ing nerves ; when young adpressed-hairy, when old glabrous : length 

 1*5 to 5 in. ; breadth '2 to 1 in. Spikes 2 to 6 in. long ; sometimes 

 interrupted, solitary, at first terminal but subsequently surmounted by 

 a leaf-axis, the rachis and calices glabrous or hairy : calyx-tube OYoid, 

 the lobes orbicular. Petals l to '15 in. in diam. Staminal bundles 

 under '5 in. long. Fruit about '2 in. in diam. Benth. Fl. Austral. Ill, 

 142: Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI, Pt. 2, 61; Fl. Br. Barm. 

 I, 472 ; Duthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 465. 



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