276 xxin. GUTTIFER^E. (T. Anderson.) [Calopkyllw*. 



the stamens, stigma fleshy peltate. Fruit size of a cherry, globose. This tree is 

 said to flower once in 3-4 years ; its seeds yield an oil used for burning. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



C.? MARGINATUM, Wall. Cat. 4845. Does not exist in any herbarium accessible 

 to me. 



C. SURIGA, Such. Ham; ex. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 608. Calophyllum Soulattri, Bitnn. 

 Fl. Ind. 121, with liuear-oblong polished leaves and flowers whorled below them, is 

 quite unknown to me. 



C. ANGUaTiFOLiuM, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 608; "twigs cylindric, leaves short -petiole,! 

 lanceolate with lengthened subotuse points lucid finely veined, flowers in axillary 

 fascicles, pedicels with a cyathiform tip." Prince of Wales Island, where called 

 Peon, and yields spars, Roxb. 



4. KAYE A, Wall. 



Trees. Leaves opposite; veins rather distant, arched. Flowers herma- 

 phrodite, either large and solitary, or small and collected in terminal 

 panicles. Sepals and Petals 4 each, imbricate. Stauic.ns numerous, filaments 

 slender, free or connate at the base; anthers small, sul>glol>osi>. -2-cclle I, 

 dehiscence vertical Ovary 1-celled ; style slender, stigma acutely Mid; 

 ovules 4, erect Fruit subdrupaceous, nVli\ . indi.-liisrent, 1 - \-*> vied. 

 thick, testa thin and crustaceous. DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, 4 species. 



1. K.. floribunda, Wall. PI Jx. /{,ir. iii. 5, t. 210; Cat.4S40; leaves 

 oblong or linear-oblong acuminate cuspidate, panicle lax many-flowered, 

 pedicels 2-bracteolate. 



Dense tropical forests of the EASTERN HIMALAYA, in Sikkim, and the KIIASIA Mr-;., 

 ascending to 3000 ft. 



A tall straight glabrous tree; branches cylindric. Leaves 5-8 by 1-H in., thickly 

 coriaceous, base acute; veins -1 in. apart. Blender, arched, prominent on the under 

 sniT-icf, faint on tin- npp'T ; pvti.ilc 1 in., .slender, cylindric. Panicle (} in. long, ter- 

 minal ; branches and pedicels with 2 opposite bracts or bracteoles at their liases. 

 flowers 1 in. diam. Outer sepal* \ in. lung, suborbicular, truncate. /'./<//* a little 

 longer than the sepals, thin but fleshv, white, edges rosv. &t<im< //.->' 711 my, filaments 

 capillary, exceeding the sepals, f'ru't the size of a chestnut, covered by the thick 

 accrescent yellow rugose calyx, tipped by the slender style, 1-seedcd. 



2. XL. racemosa, ri>m<-h. <{ Tri<m. Mem. Guttif. 269 ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolatu acuminate cuspidate, racemes short few-flowered, pedicels ebrac- 

 teolate. Mesua singaporiana, \\'<ill. ( '<tf. 4s;}(>. 



KASTF.UN PsmKBDLA.; at S'ncapore, Wallich; Malacca, Maingny (Kew distrib. 177). 



A glabnns tr c ; branches tylindric ; bark asliy. Leaves 4-5 by 1.^ in., thin, riirid ; 

 ])etiole .', in., tcre'c. /idci'i/irx short, axillary and terminal; pedicels stout. Outer 

 sefKiln thick, rugose. Immature frail as lai-j,c as a filbert, tippol with the short subu- 

 lale siyle. Only one specimen seen, in the Lmna'an Society's Herbarium, and assumed 

 to be the plant published by Planchon and Triana from a specimen without habitat in 

 De Candolle's Herbarium. [Maingay's specimens have slender whor i-d liranchlets, each 

 with leaves at the end. Leaves 6-9 by 14-2^ in-, elliptic-oblong, coriaceous, not polished, 

 nerves beneath many, strong, arched, about 4 in. apart; petioles -| in- Racemes few, 

 short (1 in.), crowded on the tips of the branchlets between the two leaves ; peduncles 

 and pedicels very short, bracts small ovate deciduous. Flowers | in. diam. Sepals 

 very thickly coriaceous. Petals about twice as long. Stamens in 1 series, very nume- 

 rous, monadelphous at the base. J. D. H.] 



3. K. stylosa, Thwaites Enum. 50; leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 cuspidate, racemes erect few flowered equalling the leaves, pedicels minutely 



