Calophyllum.] GUTTIFERAE. 75 



W. Ghats and W. Coast from S. Canara to Travancore at 

 low elevations only. 



An elegant moderate-sized evergreen tree with yellowish- 

 white hard wood. Vern. Mar. Haldi ; Tarn. Kokottai ; 

 Mai. Manja nangu. 



2. Ochrocarpus, Thouars. 



Trees with thick leaves and flowers solitary or fascicled on 

 nodes in the axils of fallen leaves. Calyx bursting into 2 or 3 

 valves which are reflexed during flowering. Petals 4. Stamens 

 many, free or nearly so ; anthers erect, oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style subulate; stigma 3-lobed ; cells 2-ovuled. Berry ovoid, 

 mucronate, 1-seeded, stipitate. Seed large ; embryo with large 

 radicle (tigellus) and cotyledons small or 0. 



OCHROCARPUS LONGIFOLIDS, Benth. & Hook, f . ; F. B. I. i. 270 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 89. Calysaccion longifolmm, Wt. Ic. t. 1999. 

 A tree with large oblong leaves and clusters of white flowers 

 7 in. across ; berries 1 in. long. 



W. Ghats in Malabar and Coimbatore ; cultivated in N. 

 Circars and elsewhere. 



A large evergreen tree with hard red wood. Vern. Mar. 

 Suringi ; Kan. Wundi, Punay, Suringi. 



3. Calophyllum, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, with very close numerous 

 parallel nerves at right angles with the midrib. Flowers poly- 

 gamous, solitary fascicled racemed or panicled, axillary or 

 terminal. Segals and petals usually 4 each, imbricate. Stamens 

 many, free or connate at base ; anthers erect, dehiscence longitudi- 

 nal. Ovary 1-celled ; style slender; stigma peltate; ovule 1, erect. 

 Drupe with a fleshy or crustaceous pericarp. Seed ovoid or globose. 



Perianth segments 4 only ; petioles under -5 in. long ; fruit elliptic, 



5 in. long 1 . decipiens . 



Sepals and petals 4 each ; petioles "5-1 in. long ; fruit 1 in. long : 

 Leaves under 2 in. broad ; fruit ovoid, apiculate : 



Young parts more or less tomentose ; inflorescence pubescent ; 



leaves 3-5 in. long 2. elatum. 



Whole tree glabrous ; leaves under 2 in. long 3. trapezifolium. 



Leaves 2-3 in. broad; whole tree glabrous; fruit 1 in. in diam., 

 globular 4. inoplnjllum . 



