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276 XXIII. GUTTiFER^. (T. Anderson.) [Calophjllum. 



the stamens, , stigma fleshy peltate. Fruit size of a cherry, globose, — This tree is 

 said to flower once in 3-4 years ; its seeds yield an oil used for burning. 



• DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 



C? MARGINATUM, Wall Cat 4845.— Does not exist In any herbarium BccessiUe 

 to me. 



C. SuRiOA, Buch. Ham; ex. Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 608. Calophyllum Soulattri, ^wm. 

 Fl. Ind. 121, with linear-oblong polished leaves and flowers whorled below them, is 

 qnite unknown to me. ^ . , , 



C. ANGUSTiFOLiUM, Boxh, FL lud. u. 608; "twigs cylindric, leaves short -petiolcd 

 lanceolate with lengthened subotuse points lucid finely veined, flowers in ^^"*j}^ 

 fascicles, pedicels with a cyathiform tip."— Prince of Wales Island, where called 

 Peon, and yields spars, Boxb, 





4. KAITEA, Wall 



Trees. Leaves opposite ; veins rather distant, arcted. Flowers herma- 

 irodite, either large and solitary, or small and collected iu terminal 



phrodite 

 panicles. Sepal 



Stamens numerous, filaments 



lied, 



slender, free or connate at the base ; anthers small, subglobose, ^'^^^^f. 

 dehiscence vertical. ^ Ovary 1-celled; style slender, stigma acutely 4-ua, 

 ovules 4, erect. Fruit subdrupaceous, fleshy, indehiscent, 1-4-seedea. ceea 

 thick, testa thin and crustaceous. — Distrib. Tropical Asia, 4 species. 



1. KL. floribunda, Walt. PI. As. Bar. iii. 5, t. 210; Cat 4840; leav| 

 oblong or linear-oblong acuminate cuspidate, panicle lax many-nowereu, 

 pedicels 2-bracteolate, 



Dense tropical forests of the Eastern Himalaya, in Sikkim, and the Khasia Mt9.| 

 ascending to 3000 ft. 



thickly 



con ace 

 surface 

 minal : 



nal; branches and pedicels with 2 opposite bracts or bracteoles at their ^.^^^^ 

 Flowers 1 in. diam. Outer sepals I in. long, suborbicular, truncate. ^^^^%J^^Q^fs 

 longer than the sepals, thin but fleshy, white, edges rosv. Stamens ^'f^'^^^id 

 capillary, exceeding the sepals. Fruit the size of a chestnut, covered by the 

 accrescent yellow rugose calyx, tipped by the slender style, 1-seeded. 



2. K. racemosa, Planck & Trian. Mem, Guttif. 269 ; l^^Y^VK- 

 lanceolate acuminate cuspidate, racemes short few-flowered, pedicels e , 

 teolate. Mesua singaporiana, Wall Cat 4836. ^y 



Eastern Peninsula; at SIncapore, Wallich; Malacca, Jfa^^.V (Kej^ *^^fl^^^^ 

 A glabrous tree ; branches cylindric ; bark ashy. Leaves 4-5 by U m-j ^^'"' q^^ 

 petiole i in., terete. Eacpmes short, axillary and terminal; pedicels stont. ^^^^^ 

 sepals thick, rugose. Immature fruU as large as a filbert, tipped with tlie ^^^^^^med 

 lat(! 8t>le.~0n!y one specimen seen, in the Linnjean Society's Herbanmn, ana a .^ 

 to be the plant publishi?d by Planchon and Triana from a r^pecinien without iia^^ ^^^^ 



r)e Candolle's Herbarium.— [Maingay's specimens have slender whorled ^^^"^^ ijshed, 

 with leaves at the end. leaves 6-9 by 14-2^ in., elliptic-oblong, coriaceouSjiiotP^^^^ 



nerves beneath many, strong, arched, about 4 in. apart; petioles 4-§ ni. ^*^®7junrleS 

 short (I in.), crowded on the tips of the branchlets between the two leaves; F ^ i^ 

 and pedicels very short, bracts small ovate deciduous. Flowers J in. .^'^^ num^ 

 very thickly coriaceous. Petals about twice as long. Stameas in 1 series, re j 

 rou3, monadelphous at the base. — J. Z). J3.1 



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cuspidate, racemes erect few flowered eq^ualling 



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