Calophyllum.] 



XVIII. GUTTIFEILE. 



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3. CALOPHYLLUM, L. 



Trees, rarely shrubs, with opposite shining coriaceous leaves 

 with innumerable very slender parallel nerves at right angles to 

 midrib. Flowers bisexual in axillary or terminal panicles white. 

 Sepals and petals 4 to 12, or petals o, imbricate in 2 or 3 series. 

 Stamens indefinite ; filaments filiform free or connate at base ; 

 anthers 2-celled, dehiscence vertical. Ovary i-celled ; style slender. 

 Stigma small peltate ; ovule i erect. Drupe with a thin fleshy 

 pericarp. Seed ovoid or globose. About 35 species, chiefly 

 tropical Asiatic, a few American. 



The generic Malay name for these trees is Bintangor, from 

 Bintang, a star, in allusion to the bright flowers. The timber of 

 all is highly valued in shipbuilding. 



Series A . N'o petals. 



Flowers axillary solitary or in pairs rarely in 

 very short panicles, very small. 

 Leaves obovate ...... 



Leaves lanceolate ; flowers in pairs 

 Leaves lanceolate ; flowers in panicles of 5 

 Flowers in axillary fascicles .... 



Flowers in axillary racemes, quite glabrous. 

 Leaves less than 5 in. long. 



Leaves ovate to ovate lanceolate ; pedicels 

 twice as long as flowers .... 



Leaves elliptic oblong ; pedicels as long as 

 flowers ...... 



Leaves elliptic lanceolate ; racemes densely 



crowded ; pedicels not exceeding flowers . 



Buds, petioles, inflorescence pubescent. 



Bush. Leaves ovate or elliptic i to 1-5 in. 



long 



Trees. Leaves obovate obtuse . 

 Trees. Leaves elliptic .... 

 Leaves narrow oblong 3 in. long 

 Leaves more than 5 in. long. 



Leaves narrow elliptic 6 to 12 in. long 

 Midrib only pubescent. .... 

 Whole leaf beneath tomentose . 

 Flowers sub-panicled terminal .... 



Series B. Petals 4 or more. 



Leaves elliptic thinly coriaceous 

 Leaves obovate retuse thickly coriaceous . 

 Leaves elliptic ovate small ; petals 4 to 6 . 

 Leaves elliptic ; flowers and fruit small ; petals 4 

 Leaves oblong sub-sessile , . . . 



Leaves oblong petiolate. 



Inflorescence rufous tomentose 



Inflorescence glabrous ; flowers -35 in. across ; 

 , fruit globose i in. through 



P'lowers I in. across ; fruit ellipsoid 5 in. long 

 Leaves sessile orbicular ..... 



(i) C. parvifolium 



(2) C. lanceola 



(3) C. rupicolum 



(4) C. Kunstleri 



(5) C. pulcherrimum 



(6) C. Prainianum 



(7) C. floribundum 



(8) C. pisiferum 



(9) C. retusum 



(10) C. oblongifolium 



(11) C. ferrugineum 



(12) C. spectabile 



(13) C. Curtisii 



(14) C, molle 



(15) C. canum 



(16) C. inophyllum 



(17) C. inophylloide 



(18) C. venustum 



(19) C. foetidum 



(20) C. subsessile 



(21) C. Wallichianum 



(22) C. Griffithii 



(23) C. macrocarpum 



(24) C. rotundifolium 



