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Show CAJEPUT TREE. 673 ebtained by distillation from the dried leaves of the smaller of two varieties, and is prepared in great quantities, especially in the island of Banda, andsent to Hollandin copper flasks. As it comes to us it is of a green colour, very limpid, lighter than water, of a strong smell, resembling camphor, and a strong, pungent taste, like that of cardamoms. It burns entirely away, without leaving any residuum. It is often adulterated with other essential oils, coloured with the resin of milfoil. In the genuine oil, the green colour depends on the presence of copper ; for when rectified it is colourless. MEDICAL USE. Like other aromaticoils it is highly stimulating, and is principally recommended in hysteria, epilepsy, flatulent colic, and paralysis of the tongue. alump of sugar. ‘The doseis from one to four drops on It is applied externally where a warm and peculiar stimulus is requisite; and is employed for restoring vigour after luxations and sprains; and for easing violent pain in gouty and rheumatic cases, in toothach, and similar affections. CAJEPUT TREE, OR AROMATIC MELALEUCA. MELALEUCA LEUCADENDRON. Class XVIII. Polyadelphia. Order 1V. Polyandria. Essent. Gen. Cyar. Calyx five-parted, half superior: Petals five: Filaments numerous, united into five bodies: Style one: Capsule half inverted by the calyx, thee-celled. Spec. Cuar. Leaves alternate, pointed, oblique in a falcate manner, five-nerved: Branchlels and Petiole s glabrous. a DESCRIPTION. A MODERATE-SIZEp tree. Leaves linear-lanceolate, ash-coloured, odorous, on short footstalks. Flowers white, sessile, on long terminal spikes. Capsule round, HISTORY. The tree which furnishes the cajeput oil is frequent on the mountains of Amboyna, and the other Molucca islands. It is |