274 xxin. GUTTIFER^. (T. Anderson.) [Calophyllum. 



Petals 4, ranch longer than the inner sepals, linear-spathnlate. Stamens very short, 

 Fruit (according to Maingay's drawing) 5 in. long, ellipsoid, narrowed at both ends, 

 smooth./. D. H. 



12. C. polyanthum, Wall. Cot. 4844; quite glabrous, leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate, margins waved, racemes terminal glabrous, outer sepals very 

 small. Chois. Guttif. Ind. 43 ; Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 250. 



EASTERN BENGAL ; Khasia Mts. ascending to 3000 ft. ; Pegn, Kurz. 



A glabrous tree, 60 ft., twigs 4-gonal, compressed. Leaves 4-6 by 1J-H i n - coria- 

 ceous ; veins equally distinct on both . surfaces ; petiole - in. Racemes many 

 flowered, equalling the leaves; the upper together forming a terminal panicle, flowers 

 i in. diam. Outer sepals suborbicular, inner twice as long, petaloid. Petals rather 

 longer than the inner sepals, obovate, concave, reflexed. Fruit the size of a small 

 plum, subglobose, not pointed. 



13. C. tomentosum, Wi</bt 111. i. 128, Ic. 1. 110; young parts tomentose, 

 leaves elliptic or linear-lanceolate acuminate, margin waved, racemes 

 pubescent, outer sepals smaller than the inner. Planck. <( Tri<in. M<*m. 

 (itdtif. 241 ; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. Gen. xxii. C. elatum, Beddome I.e. xxii. 

 and t. 2. 



Moist forests in the WESTERN PENINSULA from the Concan southwards ; and in 

 CEYLON, ascen<lin- to 5000ft. 



A tall straight tree ; branches 4-anglod ; buds, shoots, panicles and outer 

 clothed witli rusty tomentum. L< are* ',\ f) by 1 \-'2 in., coriaceous, sliining ; veins many, 

 close-set, slender, equally prominent on both surfaces; petiole i-^ in., often downy. 

 Itacemcx fYm the axils of the upper leaves, sometimes collected into a terminal panicle, 

 lax, many-flowered. J%noer9 upwards of !, in. diam. ; pedicels long, slendei-. 

 orb'cular. Petal* 4, ovate-oblong, larger than the sepals. Fruit f in. long, obliquely 

 ovoid, pointed. Yields the Poon-spars of Western India, and the seeds an abundant oil 

 in Ceylon. 



14. C. bracteatum, Thwaiti* E/tnm. 51 ; young parts tomentose, leaves 

 elliptic- or obovate-lanceolate acuminate, racemes glabrous few-flowered 

 bracteate, sepals obovate, petals oblong-lanceolate. Planch. & Trian. Mein. 

 Unit if. 252 ; Beddome Fl. tiylvat. Gen. xxii. 



Near streams in the Saffragam district of CEYLON, 



A large tree, closely resembling C. Ton&Rtow/m. Leaves dimorphic, the fully dr-vo- 

 loped 3-8 in. long, tapering to the obtuse base, highly polished, golden brown when 

 dry; petiole in.; abnormal or undeveloped leaves 1-2 by &-^ in., subsessile, linear- 

 lanceolate or linear, pubescent, resembling bracts. Jtaccmes in the axils of and shorter 

 than the normal leaves, few-floweredi Flowers ^ in. diam. ; pedicels with an oblong 

 bract in. long at the base. /Sepals 4. Petals 4. Fruit f in. long, oblong. Flowers 

 not in a good state for examination. 



15. C. Wig-htianum, Wall. Cat. 4847 ; young shoots often pruinose, 



piens, Wight III. i. 128, Ic. t. 106, not of Thwaites ; Wall. Cat. 4841 A, G. 



Mountains of the Western Coast of the WESTERN PENINSULA from the Concan to 

 Travancor. 



Young shoots 4-gonal. Leaves 2-4 by 1J-2 in., rigidly coriaceous, rounded and 

 usually retuse at the tip ; veins most prominent on the under surface ; petiole in. 

 Racemes from the axils of all the leaves and scars of a few fallen ones, several-flowered, i 

 shorter than the leaves; peduncles and pedicels slender. Flowers in. diam. >V, />>//.? 

 4, very thin, strongly veined. Petals (or 4 small ones visible in the bud, Wiyht) . 



