* 
oS a pnt 
= me plant, but | 
eee it cannot be Cc. leeplytice 
128 
possgen Be and the third 4. This arrangement i is nearly 
the as Choisy’s in DeCandvlle’s Prod. namely— 
sepals 4,0 or 2, or wanting, the last ‘section very Saks sti 
hie: cing a 
species of Calophyllum is easy, not so the acini 
ones, especially where there is a —— nuinber 
forms t 
of to be reduced, owing to the characters of the 
species —— generally so loosely constructed that it 
seems 0 0 impossible to say to orm they are 
limited ; ‘uch, heowcmcia O say, are oe even of Rox 
b and n g as usual, aided by full descrip- 
tions, leaves a whole seit in dou certair 
ty. Whether I shall be able to draw sie precise char- 
acters is un 3 nt my meanin bein 
e 
ot 
Em = 
ent 
B08 
S. 
enable me to add, so far as they steality the figures le 
by Dr. Heetiading 
§ I. Leaves of the Pereanth 12—(4 sepals and 8 
: ave uF 
C, Walkerii, (R. W.) A large tree, branches terete, 
Soo nearly round or yaeieomeh very thick and coria- 
ngested 
ceous: s axill on the ends of the 
branches, the extre ones ( the abortion of the 
leaves) ing a terminal e, exterior pair of 
sepals much smaller than the interior, inner r f 
petals smaller than the outer, fruit spherical, about the 
~ of a nes waned large cherry, pericarp very thick and 
Sead ‘E. llia Ceylon, at an elevation of 7000 feet— 
also on Adam’s peak, but there a smaller t 
gern ee, eoualie species, which I ary deticated to 
olonel Walker, from whom I first r 
oe ens, - observed to flower only once in Hes os years. 
ou which was made fi 
de here remark, 
men, not give a very .good idea of tie 
ce of te = inflorescence, owing to gigs 
2. Blum, (kW) W.) Leaves obovate, elliptic, ob- 
3 ramuli | + flor e- 
mose ; ra lary, sul tary: pedicels tna, 
patie metas (Calyx 4 sepals, caducous : petals 8, un- 
equ . Stamens ens numerous, 5-6 a ous at the 
base; " anthers: oblong, , Srening by two pores, (apice 
‘@). Ovary spect rie Bes ries inflexed : 
um ame Bid 1, page 217. 
i cohol from Blume, I do not 
the 4 A sepals - 8 petals prove that 
oa Be Leaves of the Perianth 8 (sepals 4, petals 4.) 
— “mn, (Li 7) Branches Sait ; leaves ellipti- 
into obovate, s emarginaie, racemes 
ext - ¢ sepa a Interior about 
= ure mite) faphae eens stamens 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
4, C. Bintagor, (Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2-607.) « Twigs cylin- 
dric, leaves oblong, emarginate, base tapering, lucid, 
oxb.) fruit large, about the size of a 
mall — or billiard nig spherical, fleshy. 
s species I onl now w from Roxburgh’s imperfect 
character and Beata! * figure, which Roxburgh says, 
bad fi = of this beautiful tree.” Rumiphius 
iol is so an admirer — the tree, that his des- 
cription is quite poetical, tae much too diffus 
tation, his figure is usually quo 
5 C. ‘omentos 
with 
clothed Settee ferruginous tomentum: leaves varying from 
val to narrow neeolate, sinetante at both ends, ine 
lated on the margin, racemes axillary, loose, few flow 
ered: fruit—. 
Ceylon.—Colonel Walker. 
f this species there are two very distinct Meda 
— with oval leaves ending in a short abr upt blunt acu- 
and much undulated on the margin, the pense: 
with, Sai rathér narrow lanceolate leaves, tapering to 
ne point at e nd very slightly unduiated 
but in both the tomentose, rusty coloured, se bets ramuli 
are tetera in | both the axils of the aves are fur- 
Prince of ached Island said to be a tree 
of 8 aoe ex and to afford the masts and spars known 
under the name of Peon 
C. speiabile, wit and Choisy, in D. C.’s Prod. 
1-562. es elliptic, pes or na ovate 
elliptic, vermrer ie acute at both ends: ramuli terete 
flowers laxly. “ee saan axill hay pobunclas 
ichewseel, sisal op 
: Rumph. b. 2-72, is age as a figure of this plant, 
oe os ° 
th of fallen leaves, few flowered, pedicels, 
rather sh ‘short fe ee lf inc 
3 en ghia fruit small, oval, some- 
what atenoated at at ie ends. 
Lind. FI talum 
Willd —C." ‘puriun, pcan ee C. Prod. 1-5 cl d 
A. Prod. | heede, Hort. Mal. 4-39—no 
Thea: Ai f 
Wilidenow’s — ‘exmmination of this 4 plant led him to a 
usion that i it had no petals, rinks e called it 
Choisy on the other hand, but apparently 
flower er iced his own satisfaction, 
