Calophyllum. polyandria monogynia. 607 



two to three broad. Stipules none. Racemes axillary, 

 drooping, few flowered. Flowers pretty large, pure white, 

 fragrant. Bracies minute, fallinj^ early. Calyx and 

 corol so much alike in colour, as not to l^e 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 Gaertner. 

 vol. 1. p. 20. t. 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 cyVrndric. ieai;e5 oblong, emarginate; basetdi- 

 pering, lucid, finely veined. 



From the Mauritius plants have been received into the 

 Botanic garden at Calcutta, where they grow freel\% 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. f. 71, is but a bad 

 figure 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 Cororaandel, which I consider to be Ino- 

 phyllum. Louriero's Balsamaria may be either, for what 

 I can say. 



Seeds received from Otaheite were about the size of 

 Rumph's J they have produced plants with leaves, only 



