Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 71 



Malacca: Singapore. Distrib. — Malayan Archipelago, British 

 India, Australia. 



The following two varieties have been distinguished by Mr. 

 Duthie in Hooker's Flora of British India. 



Yku. Leticadendron; spikes glabrous. Linn. Mant, 105 and Suppl. 

 342 ; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 408 ; Roxb. Fl. Tnd. Ill, 397 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 

 212 ; Wall. Cat. 3646 ; Blume Mus. Bot. I, 66 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 1, 

 401. Myrtus Leucadendrouj Linn. — Rumph. Herb. Amb. II, 72, tt. 16, 

 17, f. 1. — Cultivated in India. 



VAR. minor; spikes villous. M, minor, Sm. in Rees. Cycl. 23; 

 DC. Prodr. Ill, 212 ; Wall. Cat. 3645 ; Blume Mus. Bot. I, 67 ; Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 403. M. Gajnputi, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 394 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 326; Miq. I.e. 403. M. Leucadendron, Lam. Encycl. 641. 

 M. viridiflora, Gsertn. Fruct. 1, 173, t. 35 ; DC. Prodr. I.e. ; Wall. Cat. 3647. 

 M. saligna, Blume Mus. Bot. I, 66. M. Gumiu.giana and lancifolia, Turcz. 

 in Bull. Soc. Mosc. xx. 164. M. saligna, Gmel. Syst. 793. — Rumph. 

 Herb. Amb. II, 76. — This appears to be the plant from which the Cajuput- 

 oil of commerce is chiefly obtained. 



4. Tristania, R. Br. 



Tall shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or crowded at the summit 

 of the branches, rarely opposite, coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers small, 

 yellow or white, in pedunculate axillary cymes ; bracts deciduous or 0. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate-canapanulate or open, attached below to the ovary ; 

 lobes 5, short, persistent. Petals 5, imbricate, spreading. Stamens 

 numerous, shorter than the petals, usually united in 5 bundles and 

 opposite to them ; anthers versatile, cells parallel and opening longitu- 

 dinally. Ovary inferior or ^-superior, the apex flat or convex ; 3-celled ; 

 ovules many in each cell, suspended or horizontal. Capsule loculicidally 

 3-valved. Perfect seeds few, linear, cuneate, or winged at the upper 

 part ; embryo straight, cotyledons broad, longer than the radicle. 

 Distrib. — About 22 species inhabiting the Malay peninsula and islands, 

 New Caledonia, and Australia. 



Leaves sessile, sab-auricalate ... ... ... 1. T. subauriculata. 



Leaves narrowed into a short petiole. 



Cymes (with their pedancles) much shorter than the leaves. 



Leaves oblanceolate or obovate-oblong ; capsules globular. 



Petals transversely oblong, entire, shortly clawed ; 



capsules "4 to '5 in. in diam. 



Petals sub-rotund, subentire, hairy ; capsules "35 in, in 

 diam. 

 Leaves obovate ; capsule oblong, "2 in. long; petals sub- 

 rotund, their margins serrate 

 Cymes (with their peduncles) longer than the leaves 



