108 PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 



ICOSANDRIA. 



Citrus. 



1. Citrus auranti'um. 



Several orchards, particularly at Soongey Clooan, where 

 they seem to answer better than in other parts. A small one, 

 containing about two Oorlongs of ground, was let last year, 

 for eight hundred dollars. Fruit in October. 



2. Citrus decmnana. 



Is also in considerable quantity, but not equal to the 

 fruit in Bengal. 



3. Citrus medico,, va. 8. Mill. Diet. 



The Lime. In tolerable plenty. 



POLYANDRIA. 

 Melaleuca. 



1. Melaleuca leucadendron. Kayo-pottee, Mai. 



Several trees in the Honourable Company's spice planta- 

 tion, and in private gardens. Imported from the Moluccas. 

 Has borne flowers and seed. 



2. Melaleuca, an viridiflora ? Linn. Trans. 3, p. 275, Gaertn. 



Sem. v. 1, 173, t. 35. M. Leucadendron B. Linn. 

 Suppl. 342. 



" M. folijs alternis elliptico lanceolatis, coriaceis, quin- 

 quenervijs, ramulis petiolisque pubescentibus." Smith. In 

 my plant the branchlets and petioles are smooth ; it may be 

 thus distinguished. 



Leaves sparse, elliptic, lanceolate, rigid, five nerved ; 

 spike terminal, elongate ; flowers sessile. Stem a tree, of 

 middle size with a scabrous bark. Branches erect, round, 

 flexible. Leaves towards the extremities of the branches, 

 scattered, widely spreading, elliptic, lanceolate, sharp at 

 both ends, thickish, rigid, five nerved, smooth, on both sides. 

 Petioles very short, round, smooth. Spikes terminal, sub- 

 cylindric, interrupted. Flowers small, whitish, sessile, scat- 



Jour. Straits Branch 



