40 GUTTIFERAE. [Calophyllum. 
the seed of a Scleria, and generally do not open until some time after 
they have fallen from the plant. 
Hawaii! and Maui! on dry lava fields 2000—5000 ft. above the sea; Lanai (M. & B.); 
Kahoolawe (Lydg.). Nat. name: «Ihimakole» 
Orper XI. GUTTIFERAE. 
pals 2, 4 or 6, rarely more, imbricate in pairs. Petals 4 or more, 
each cell, or reduced to a single cell and ovum. Style simple or none. 
Stigma broad, usually with as many lobes as cells to the ovary. Fruit 
either a eipeule with as many valves as cells, or a berry, or drupe. 
Seeds often arillate, without albumen. Embryo thick with minute cotyle- 
ns, — Trees or shrubs, exuding a yellow juice. Leaves opposite, entire, 
coriaceous, without stipules. 
arge tropical Order, common to the New and Old World. To it belongs the Mam- 
mee-Apple, Mammea Americana, L., now in common cultivation. 
1. CALOPHYLLUM, L. 
Sepals 2—4. Petals 4, rarely 2, 6 or 8. Stamens numerous, free, 
or united into several baikdlive at ‘is base. Ovary l-celled, with a single 
erect ovule. Style filiform, with a peltate stigma. Fruit a drupe. — Trees, 
with parallel- and straight-veined leaves. Flowers in terminal or axillary ~ 
eariaace sometimes branching into panicles. 
25 species, mostly of tropical Asia, only 3 or 4 belonging to America. 
1, C. Inophyllum, Z.—DC. Prod. I, 562. — A t 40— 60 ft. high, 
glabrous throughout. Leaves coriaceous, shi fie’ Dra oblong or 
obovate, 8’ & 4’, rounded or emarginate, on petioles of nearly 1‘. Raceme 
axillary, 2—7‘ long, the pedicels 1—1'/2‘, with short, soon deciduous 
bracts at the base. Sepals 4, rounded, 4—5“ long. Petals 4, rarely 
—8, white, oblong, 7—8”. Style 2—3, Fruit globose, 1/ or more thick. 
— The flowers are fragant. 
A littoral tree, common and well known through all tropical Asia and Polynesia, 
generally planted near habitations and valued for its pega a furnishes an excellent 
a sa In southern Polynesia and India the oil e m the nuts enjoys 
on : an external remedy against icrie pains gah bruises, The 
ue es jnice on the — Tacamahaca resin of commerce — is esteemed as a scent by 
the Tahitia: The 1 v8 which is called «Kamani» or «Kamanu» by the Hawaiians as 
well as by Oe other er Polynesians of the Maoli race, is certainly of ancient aboriginal 
introduction, for the name occurs in old meles, and a large grove of it which formerly 
a "Holawe on Molokai has been referred to by early navigators. 
existed 
Of this only a trees remained in 1870. More are to be found along the coast in 
Puna, Hawaii. 
Orper XII. TERNSTROEMIACEAE. 
Sepals generally 5, imbricate. Petals as many, hypogynous, often 
united into a ring or short tube at the base, contorted or imbricate in the 
