Calophyllum. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + 607 
two to three broad. Stipules none. Racemes axillary, 
drooping, few-flowered. Flowers pretty large, pure white, 
fragrant. Bractes minute, falling early. Calyx and 
corol so much alike in colour, as not to be distin- 
guished. Filaments about two hundred, generally con- 
joined into four bodies at the base. Germ round, one~ 
celled, with one ovulum attached to the bottom of the 
cell. _ Style much longer than the stamina. Stigma 
large, irregularly lobate, peltate. Drupe spherical, above 
an inch in diameter, smooth, when ripe somewhat yel- 
low, and covered with a small quantity: of yellowish 
pulp, which bats are fond of, one-celled. Nut conform 
to the. drupe, &c. as figured and described by Gertner. 
vol. 1. p. 20. ¢. 43. Perisperm none. Embryo erect. 
_Cotyledons seem to be spherical, and remain in the nut 
during vegetation. Plumula two-lobed. Radicle inferior, 
when vegetation begins it pushes through the bottom of 
the nut where it was attached to the envelope, leaving 
the cotyledons in the nut under the ground. 
2. C. Bintagor. R. 
Twigs cylindric. Leaves oblong, emarginate; base ta- 
pering, lucid, finely veined. 
From the Mauritius plants have been received into the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta, where they grow freely, and 
though they have not yet blossomed, the leaves evident- 
ly point out a specific difference between this and the 
first species. 
Bintagor maritima, Rumph. Amb. 2. €.71, is but a bad 
firure of this beautiful tree, the fruit is double the size 
of those produced by the only species I have yet found 
on the coast of Coromandel, which I consider to be Ino- 
phyllum. _——* s Frcsonesweomnree may be either, for bytes: = 
Ican say. a F 
Seeds received from Otaheite were about the size of 
or s; they have produced plants with» leaves, 
