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2. Calophyllum Kunstleri, King, n. sp. A tree 40 to 60 feet high, 

 all parts glabrous except the buds, the 4-angled young branches, and the 

 petioles and lower part of racbis of inflorescence witb its bracts which 

 are ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong, the apex obtusely acuminate, tapering in the lower third to the 

 short stout petiole ; both surfaces shining ; the nerves very close together 

 and like the midrib most distinct on the lower ; lensrth 3'5 to 6 in., 

 breadth 125 to 1'4 in., petiole "3 to '4 in. Flowers in solitary fascicles 

 from the axils of the older or of fallen leaves, about 1'5 in. lone, 3-4- 

 flowered ; bracts at base of pedicel 4, ovate, boat-shaped. Flowers •25 in. 

 in diam. ; the pedicels often very unequal, the uppermost 1 in. and about 

 twice as long as the lower. Sepals 4, the outer pair obovate-oblong, the 

 inner oblong, all obtuse. Petals 0. Fruit, (not ripe) ovoid or globular, 

 glabrous ; pericai'p thick, crustaceous. 



Perak; King's Collector, Nos. 5328, 5374, 5459. 



A common species ; varying a little as to the amount of pubescence 

 on the branchlets and buds, and in the form of the fruit. Ripe fruit 

 has not, however, yet been collected ; and it may prove that when ripe tlie 

 fruit is uniformly globular. The nervation is closer than in any other 

 species that I have seen, and the surfaces of the leaves have a peculiarly 

 lustrous sheen. 



3. Calophyllum pulcherrimum. Wall. Cat. 4848. A glabrous tree, 

 20 to 60 feet high ; the young branches as thick as a crow quill, 4-angled. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate or obovate-lanceolate, shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, much narrowed to the base ; both surfaces shining ; the edge a 

 little thickened and undulate, the midrib stout ; length 1*75 to 2*5 in., 

 breadth "8 to I"2 in., petiole "3 in. Racemes solitary, about half as long 

 as the leaves, from the axils of the older leaves, lax, spreading, 

 few-flowered. Flowers '25 in. in diam. ; pedicels very slender, about 5 

 in. long. Sepals broadly ovate, the inner pair slightly larger and more 

 membranous. Ovary globose. Fruit ovoid with a vei'y short beak, 

 •65 in. long, Chois. Guttif. Ind. 14 ; Planch, and Triana Mem. Guttif. 

 246; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 271 ; Pierre Fl. Coch.-Chine, t. 104. 



Singapore, Malacca, Perak. Distrib. Cochin-China. 



Miquel's three species bancanum, plicipes and gracile are reduced to 

 this in Hooker's Fl. Br. Ind. Miquel ascribes 4 petals to gracile, which 

 would throw it into another section. Pierre (1. c.) expresses doubts as 

 to bancanum and gracile falling here, and considers G. plicipes as totally 

 distinct both as to leaves and flowers. Of G. mesuaefolium, (Wall. Cat. 

 4850), only fragmentary specimens exist. In the Fl. Br. Ind. it is re- 

 duced here ; but Planchon and Triana consider it quite different. 



Var. oblong if olium, T. Anderson (in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1. c.) ; 

 leaves oblong, tip rounded. 

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