Oohroearpus.] xxiii. GUTTiFEEiE. (T. Anderson.) 271 



Mammea siamensis, T. Anders, in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. ix. 261. Calysaccion 

 Siamen.se, Miquel in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 209. 



Dry hilla in Pesu and Aeracan, M' Olelland, Kw-z.—Distsib. Siam. 



Very similar indeed to 0. kmgifolius, but the fiowers are fewer in a fascicle, the petals 

 obtuse, and tbe fruit narrower and more pointed. — FlMwera sweet. Fruit 1^ in. long, 

 OToid, mucronate, glabrous. 



3. CAZ.OFXYXiIiTriM[, Linn. 



Trees. Zeaves opposite, shining, coriaceous, -with innumerable parallel 

 slender veins at right angles to the midrib. Flowers polygamous, in numerous 

 axillary or terminal panicles. Se^^als &nApetals 4^12, imbricate in 2-.3 series. 

 Stamens very many, filaments filitorm often flexuous, free or connate below ; 

 anthers erect,, 2-celled, dehiscence vertical. Uvary 1-eelled; style slender, 

 stigma peltate ; ovule solitary, erect. Drupe with a crustaceuus putamen. 

 Seed erect, ovoid or globose, testa thin, or thick and spongy. — Disteib. 

 About 25 species, chiefly tropical Asiatic with a few American. 



A. Sepals 4. Petals (or Sepals 2, Petals 2). See also C WigkUanum. — 

 Apoteeium, Blume Bijd. 218. 



* Flowers in short racemes, racemes sometimes panided and termincd, mvxdly 

 axiUary. 



1. C. spectabile, Willd.i; DC. Prodr. i. 562; leaves large (6-14 in.) 

 oblong or ovate-oblong acuminate, margins usually undulate, racemes sui)- 

 umbellate few-flowered glabrous axillary or in subterminal leafy panicles. 

 Ghois. Guttif. Ind. 43, in part; Planch. <Ss Trian. Mem. Guttif. 238 ; Wight 

 El. i. 128. 0. tetrapetalum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 608. C. Moonii, Wight III. i. 129, 

 le. t. iii. ; Wall. Cat. 4841 D, 4842, 4843, 4849 C ; Thw. Enum. 52 ■ Beddome 

 Fhr. Sytvat. Gen. xxii. C. tjymosum, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 497. 



Forests of the Easteen Peninsula, Penahq, and Cetlon. — Disteib. Java, Fiji, and 

 Society Islands. 



A tall tree; young shoots 4-gonal, often clothed with rusty tomentum. Leaves 6-14 

 by 2-5 in., base acute; veins many, close-set, equally prominent on both surfaces; 

 petiole J-1 in., stout. Flowers few, ^ in', diam., in short racemes. Sepals 4, orbicular, 

 I'etcds 0. Fruits spherical or ovoid ; pedicel 1 in., stout, glabrous. — Eoxburgh describes 

 the leaves of O. tetrapetalum as being finely serrulate. 



2. C. canum, Hook.f. ; leaves (6-7 in.) linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate 

 shining, racemes in very stout terminal many^flowered hoary-pubescent 

 panicles, pedicels short stout. 



Eastern Peninsula ; Malacca, Maingay. 



Branches robust, woody, subcylindric. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, obtusely acuminate, 

 red-brown when dry, shining on both surfaces, especially above, base acute, margin not 

 thickened, a little waved; nerves extremely close, uniform on both surfaces; petiole 

 i;| in. Panicles terminal, of many short opposite stout racemes 1-2 in. long, rachis 

 and branches stout. Flowers rather crowded, | in. diam. Sepals 4, outer coriaceous 

 broadly ovate obtuse concave, hoarv-pubescent externally, inner twice as large orbicular 

 concave, almost membranous. Petals 0. Utamens excessively numerous, and style 

 equalling the inner sepals ; anthers linear. — Very like O. Wallie^ii, but the "leaves are 

 ' ' never tomentose beneath, and there are no petals. — /. D. H. 



3. C. pulcberrimuia, Wall. Gat. 4848 ; leaves 1-2 in. ovate-lanceolate, 

 petiole i in., racemes axillary few-flowered glabrous, pedicels very slender. 

 Ghois. GvUxf. Ind. 41 ; Planch, db ^rian. Mem. GvUif. 246. C. gracile and 



