GUTTIFERAE: 
The family Guttiferae reaches its highest development between the tropics of 
Cancer and Capricorn, and only the genus Hypericum is found also outside the 
tropics. To this family belong the Mammei apple, the Mangosteen, and other 
edible fruits. The genus Calophyllum is here represented by only one cosmo- 
politan species. 
CALOPHYLLUM L. 
Flowers TL pao sepals and petals not always aor eigen from each other, 
cigar 4 to 12, in 2 to 3 rows, imbricate; stamens many r hardly united at the 
base, filiform wit vate or elongate anthers, long ran Pore “Woes stigma. gs a 
drupe with thin sarcocarp, with crustaceous stone and globose or ovoid seed. es 
iny coriaceous leaves, with mysctee pa arallel nerves, and medium sized or cate bait 
flowers, aviuaed in racemes or panie 
The genus Calophyllum with its 55 species occurs in the old world, with the 
exception of 4 species which are found in tropical America. Only one species, 
C. Inophyllum, the true Hawaiian Kamani, is represented in these islands. It 
is the most noteworthy species of those occurring in the old world. It produces 
the real Balsamum Mariae, and a resin ealled Tacamahak. 
Calophyllum inophyllum Linn. 
Kamani. 
(Plate 122.) 
CALOPHYLLUM IN Linn, Spec. Plant. I. (1753) 513;—Forst. Prodr. fed 786) 
INOPHYLLUM 
no, 225;—DC. Prodr, I. (1824) 562;—Guillem. Zeph. Tait. (as 36-1837 )—no. 337;— 
Bot. U. 8. E. E. (1854) 218;—Pancher 
Endl. Fl. Suds, (1836) no. 1397; Gray, Bot. 
in Cuzent, Tahiti (1860) 223;—Seem. Fl. Vit. (1865) 12;—Parkins Draw. Tah. 
1. ( f. ) 5;—H. : m. Acad (1867) 156, et Fl 
Haw. Isl. in Pro ex Inst. V. (1867) 133;— um. Tahit. Pl. (1873) 
no 440.—Wawra in Flora (1874) ;—Hbd. w. Isl. (1888) 40;—Del Cast. — 
(1890) 116, et Fl. wei int Frane. (1893) 10;—Engler in Engl. e 
Ins. Mar. Pac. VI. xg 
Prantl Pfizfam, TIT. 6. (1895) 222. Fig. a oe Fr. Haw. Isl. (1911) 152. 
aves coriaceous, pF pr broadly oblong or obovate, 20 em x 10 em rounded o 
emarginate, on petioles of about 2.5 em; racemes axi illary, 5 to 17 em long, the pedicle 
2.5 to 3.5 em with aaa: soon ae ‘practs at the base; seas 4, rounded 8 to mm 
long; petals 4, rarely 6 to 8, white, oblong 14 to 16 mm; stamens numerous, style . to 6 
mm; fruit globose 2.5 to 4 em thick; the flowers are fragran 
This beautiful cosmopolitan tree, which grows always near or at the sea- 
shore, reaches a height of 50 to 60 feet or even more; it forms large groves in 
certain districts of the islands. One is especially remarkable on the Island of 
Molokai, at the entrance of the valley of Halawa, which has been referred to 
by the earliest navigators. Trees of this species, which was found here by the 
first white men and is therefore counted as indigenous, occur on all the islands 
of the group on the sea-shores. It is also known through all tropical Asia and 
Polynesia. Its Tahitian name is Tamanu, while it is known in Samoa as Tefau. 
The Samoans employ the oil of the nuts as a remedy for eye catarrh, while in 
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