322 



OFFICIAL PREPARATION. 



MYRTACE^E 



Spiritus Myrciae (U.S. P. 1890) (0.05 per cent.). 



373. JAMBUL. JAVA PLUM. A large tree, Eugen'ia jambola'na, growing in 

 the East Indies, where its fruit is eaten as a food. All parts are astringent, 

 but the bark, and especially the seeds, possess, in addition, the peculiar 

 property of arresting the formation of sugar in diabetes, and hence are "likely 

 to prove a valuable remedy in this disease." Dose: 5 to 10 gr. (0.3 to 0.6 

 Gm.). 



374. OLEUM CAJUPUTL OIL OF CAJUPUT 



OIL OP CAJUPUT 

 A volatile oil distilled from the leaves of Melaleu'ca leucaden'dron Linn. 



BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS. A tree with crooked stem and scattered branches, 

 the branchlets drooping like those of the weeping willow; bark^ whitish. 



FIG. 187. Melaleuca leucadendron Branch. 



Leaves lanceolate, deep green, entire, from 3 to 4 inches long, 

 white, inodorous, in axillary spikes. 



Flowers small, 



