AUSTRALIAN MELALEUCAS AND THEIR ESSENTIAL OILS. 195 



These species, recent botanists working on indoor or 

 herbarium material have synonymised generally under M. 

 leucadendron, the list standing as follow: — 



M. minor, Sm. M. lancifolia, Turcz. 



M. Cunninghami, Schau. M. Cumingiana, Turcz. 



M. saligna, Blume. M. lanceolata, R. Br. (Herb.) 



M. viridiflora, Soland. M. Sieberi, Schau. 



The last two are the M. leucadendron, var. parvifolia Bentham, 

 T^lora Australiensis, iii, p. 143. 



Having seen recently a statement to the effect that 

 Linnaeus' original specimen of M. leucadendron was in the 

 Herbarium of the London Linnean Society, in order to 

 settle the question definitely, we wrote to Dr. Daydon 

 Jackson, Secretary to the Society, asking him if he would 

 kindly compare a series which we were sending him, 

 obtained from Sydney and round the East and North 

 Coasts of Australia, of the Melaleucas in dispute, and mark 

 the one or any of them which should prove to be identical 

 with the original. 



In his reply he states : — 



"I am not able to match any of the specimens you sent, which 

 I now return, but a specimen from Java seems to be the nearest, 

 and I have indicated that with a strip of paper. I also send you 

 a photograph about half -scale of the first sheet in the Linnean 

 Herbarium which bears the words in the hand-writing of Linnaeus 

 ""Cajoepoeli" = Kajoe-poetih of the natives in a Dutch rendering 

 and = Melaleuca leucadendron. Linnaeus also refers to Rumph. 

 Amb., and I put in a tracing of part of tab. 16 of Vol. II, showing 

 the falcate foliage. 



"The material before me belonging to the Linnean Herbarium 

 is as follows : — 



'1. The first sheet (see photograph); Smith has added at the 

 loot of the sheet, not shown in photograph, M. leucadendron vera. 

 J.E.S.'" 



