  The Mel'nikov equation is a (2+1) dimensional nonlinear evolution equation
admitting boomeron type solutions. In this paper, after showing that it
satisfies the Painlev\'{e} property, we obtain exponentially localized dromion
type solutions from the bilinearized version which have not been reported so
far. We also obtain more general dromion type solutions with spatially varying
amplitude as well as induced multi-dromion solutions.
