98 GuttiferCE. [Calophylhnn. 



Var. \^. acuminata, Thw. I. c. Discostigina acuininatitm. Planch. 

 and Tri. 1. c. * . I'. 3400. 



L. smaller, abruptly caudate, obtuse. 



Forests in the moist low country, and (according to Thwaites) also up 

 to 4000 ft. in the lower montane zone ; rare. Wattegodde ; Kalutara ; 

 Karawita ; .'>inghe Raja Forest. Fl. Jan.-April, June ; pale yellow, 

 scented. 



Endemic. 



Wood yellow, close-grained, smooth. 



5. G. spicata, Hk. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 486 (1875). Ela- 

 g'okatn, Gonapana, .S'.y Kokottai, T. 



Xanthochytnus OTalifoliits., Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 632 ; Thw. Enum. 49. 

 C. P. 1173 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 269 {G. ovalifolia, Hk f. non Oliv.). 



A rather low tree, with wide-spreading, horizontal branches, 

 bark thick, smooth, brownish, young shoots compressed, 

 2- or 4-edged, striate ; 1. 3-4 in., rotundate or broadly oval, 

 rounded at base, very obtuse, retuse, thick and leathery, 

 shining, paler beneath, lateral veins not very prominent, 

 petiole ^ in., very stout ; fl. in. axils of fallen leaves, the male 

 numerous, crowded in very short racemes, the fern. 2-5 

 together, ped. slender, \-\ in. ; male fl. : — scp. 5, very small, 

 pet. 5, many times longer, orbicular, concave, stam. combined 

 into 5 erect, spathulate bundles of 8- 10 each ; fem. fl. : — sep. 

 and pet. as in male, stam. (abortive) in 5 trifid bundles, ov. 

 ovoid, 3-celled, stigma peltate, 3-lobed ; fr. i-ii in., ovoid, 

 acute, smooth, i-3-seeded ; seeds i in., testa brown, veiny. 



Var. /iJ. acutif olia, T. and in Fl. B. Ind. i. 269. 



X. ovalifolius, var. /S. Thw. Enum. 50. G. Thwaitesii, Pierre, Fl. 

 Forest. Coch.-Chin., Garc. 4. C. P. 731. 



A taller tree ; 1. larger, oval or lanceolate, acute, 5-6 in. 

 long ; fr. more globular, on a shorter stalk. 



Forests of the dry region ; very common. Abundant about Jaffna 

 (Ferguson). Specimen from Koenig in Mus. Brit. Var. /3. in the upper 

 zone of the moist low country, 1000-3000 ft.; common. Fl. Feb.-May, 

 July ; pale yellow. Also in Southern India. 



vVood yellowish, close-grained, heavy. The pulp of the fruit when 

 young affords a chrome-yellow pigment, but no gamboge is produced by 

 the bark. 



2. cAiiOPHyz.i:.u»i, l. 



Trees ; 1. thick or coriaceous, lateral veins very numerous, 

 close and parallel ; fl. in axillary or terminal racemes or 

 panicles, bisexual ; sep. 4, in 2 rows, petaloid ; pet. 4-8, 

 imbricate, or o ; stam. indcf, fil. distinct or slightly connate 

 at base, anth. dehiscing vertically; ov. i-cellcd, with a solitary 

 erect ovule ; f»'i't with a thin pulp and crustaceous endocarp ; 



