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N. Ord. MYRTACE.E. Lindl.,Veg. K., p. 734; Le Maout & Dec., p. 422. 

 Tribe Leptospermece . 



Genus Melaleuca,* Linn. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 705. Species over 

 100, natives of Australia, with a single (?) species widely 

 spread through tropical Asia. 



108. Melaleuca minor, Smith in Bees' Cyclop., vol. xxiii (1813). 

 Kayu-puti. White-wood. Gajuput. 



Syn. M. Cajuputi, Boxb. M. Leucadendron, var., Benth. 



Figures. Woodville, t. 195 ; Hayne, x, t. 9 ; Nees, t. 300 and Supp. ; 

 Trans. Med. Bot. Soc. Lond., t. 1, cop. in S. & 0., t. 84, and Woodv., 

 vol. v; Berg & Sch., t. 3 c; Rumph., Herb. Amboyn., ii, 1. 17. 



Description. A rather small, irregularly growing tree, with a 

 smooth, pale yellowish-grey, brittle bark, which splits into 

 numerous thin layers, and slender flexuose branches. Leaves 

 alternate or subopposite, when young very silky, when full 

 grown rigid, tapering below into a very short petiole, blade twisted 

 vertically, so that its edges look upwards and downwards, 2J 4 

 inches long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, often oblique or falcate, 

 acute or rather blunt, quite entire, nerved with several parallel 

 anastomosing veins. Flowers sessile, arranged usually in threes 

 in terminal interrupted spikes about 2 or 3 inches long, 

 with a scaly bud at the end, which grows out afterwards into a 

 leafy branch, the rachis covered with white silky pubescence. 

 Calyx-tube thick, about | inch long, densely silky, cup-shaped; 

 lobes 5, short, rounded, somewhat scarious. Petals 5, rounded, 

 inserted in the mouth of the calyx, spreading, white. Stamens 

 indefinite, filaments very slender, greatly exceeding the petals, 

 united into 5 ribband- shaped bundles below, which are inserted in 

 the mouth of the calyx opposite the petals, anthers small, versa- 

 tile. Ovary enclosed in the calyx-tube and half inferior, convex 

 above, with a central hollow from which the filiform style arises, 



* Name from jutXae, black, and \tvKOQ, white. Derivation not obvious; said 

 to be from the different colour of the bark of the trunk and branches. 



