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possessed of similar properties to the Caju puti, 

 so highly esteemed in arthrodial rheumatism as 

 an embrocation. The oil known by the name of 

 Caju puti* oil is produced from the leaves of 

 a tree of the Melaleuca genus, of the species 

 iff. leucade7idron and M. Caju puti. 



By five o'clock, p.m. we arrived, after a very 

 agreeable day's journey, at the neat white cot- 

 tage of Mr. Rose, at Mundoona : we had made 

 a journey of twenty-nine miles this day, and 

 were now within a few miles of Yas Plains, 

 although they were not visible from this farm ; 

 the fine stream of the Yas river flows through 



* Derived from two Malay words, Kayu puti, signifying 

 " white wood ;" (Kayu, wood ; puti, white). The mode of 

 preparing the oil is as follows : — " The leaves are collected 

 in a hot dry day, and put into thoroughly dry bags, in which, 

 nevertheless, they soon spontaneously heat and become moist, 

 as if macerated in water. They are then cut in pieces, in- 

 fused in water, and left to ferment for a night, after which 

 they are distilled. The quantity of oil they yield is very 

 small, scarcely more than three fluid drachms being obtained 

 from two bags of leaves." — Rumphius. 



" When newly drawn it is very limpid, pellucid, and vola- 

 tile ; and Rumphius says, smells strongly of cardamoms, 

 but is more pleasant. On account of the high price of real 

 Caju puti oil, it is said to be often adulterated with oil of 

 turpentine, and coloured with resin of milfoil." — Thompsons 

 London Dispensary, 8vo. page 416. 



