ddophyllum.] xxiii. quttifeb^. (T. Anderson.) 273 



recurved, 2 braoteolate at the base. Sepals 4, euborbicular, all nearly equal. Petals 0. 

 Fruit (immature) pisiform, tipped by tne persistent style. 



B. Sepals 4. Petals 4 (rarely 3, or in 0. Wightianum, or 8 in ,C. cordato- 

 oblongum, cuneifolium and Wallceri). 



* Eaeemes shorter than the leaves, esccept C. polyanthum. 



8. C. Inophylluiii, Linn. ; DG. Prod. i. 562 ; quite glabrous, leaves 

 oblong or 6bovate-oblong obtuse or emarginate shining, inner sepals 

 petaloid. Ghois. Gidiif. Ind. 42 ; Planch, dh Trian. Mem. Guttif. 254; Rod). 

 Fl Ind. VL 606 ; W.&A. Prod. 103 ; WigM, El. i 128, Ic. t. 77 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4841 B, C, D, E, F; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Gen,, xxii. Q Bintagor, Roxh. 

 l.c. 607. 



Webtehn Peninsula ; from Cnncan and Orissa soutbwards ; Ceylon ; Eastern 

 Peninsula, from Pegu southwards ; Andaman Islands. — Disteif. E. African Islands, 

 Malay Archipelago, Australia, Polynesia. — Cultivated throughout India. 



A middling-sized tree : bark grey, smooth. Leaves 4-8 by 3-4 in., coriaceous, shin- 

 ing on both surfaces ; veins many, fine ; petiole 4-1 J in. Macemea in the upper axils, 

 loose, 4-6 in. long, shorter than tlie leaves, lax, few-flowered. Flowers | in. di^m., 

 pure white, fragrant ; pedicels slender, 1-2 in. Sepals 4. Petals 4, like the inner 

 sepals. Stamens numerous, filaments in 4 bundles. Ovary globose, stipitate ; style 

 miicb exceeding the stamens, stigma peltate lobed. Fruit 1 in. diam., globose, smooth, 

 yellow, pulpy. — Eumph and Blurae say that the petals are sometimes 6-8. Wood 

 cuarse-grained but valuable. Seeds afford lamp oil. 



9. C. Vralllchianum,, Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 249 ; young parts 

 tomentose, leaves long-petioled narrow-oblong acute or obtuse, racemes 

 pubescent on the rachis or throughout, sepals subequal. 0. tetrapetalum, 

 Wdl. Gat. 4843, not of Roxburgh. 



Eastern Peninsula ; from Penang to Sinoapore, Wallich, he. 



Young branches 6ub-4-gonal, or cylindrio, and buds rusty tomentose. . Leaves 6 by 

 l-lj in., acute or subacute at the base, margins flat or waved ; midrib puberulous ; veins 

 cliise-set, somewhat prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 1-lJ in. Bacemes axillaiy or 

 terminating short branches, few-flowered, half the length of the leaves, rusty pubescent ; 

 psduncle and pedicels glabrous. Flower f in. diam. Sepals ovate-oblong, glabrous or 

 pubescent. Petals 4, oblong. Filaments slender Ovary ovoid, glabrous. Fruit 

 globose, size of a cherry. — GrifSth's Malacca, 880, may be this, but consists of a young 

 flowerless branch only, the leaves are rusty-pubescent beneath, as are Maingay's 



10. C. Gri£Btbil, T. Anders. ; quite glabrous, leaves oblong or elliptic- 

 oblong acute or obtuse, veins stout with a strong intramarginal one, racemes 

 glabrous, sepals subequal. 



Eastern Peninsula ; Malacca, Oriffith. 



A glabrous tree; young shoots 4-gonal, older cylindrio. Leaves 4-6 by 14-2 in., tip 

 often rounded, base acute, coarsely veined on both surfaces ; petiole J in. Maremes 

 axillary, few-flowered, glabrous, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers ^ in. diam., 

 glabrous. Petcis 4. 



11. C. macrocarpum, Hooh. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves linear-oblong 

 or elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate narrowed into a slender petiole, 

 racemes not half the length of the leaves, pedicels I-l^ in.,flower8 1 in. diam., 

 petals narrow much longer than the sepals. 



Eastern Peninsula; Malacca, Maingay (C. Oriffithii, Kew distrib. 174). 



Branches robust ; branchlets sharply 4-angled. Leaves 3-5 by 1 J-2 in., veiy opria- 

 ceons, shining above, hardly so beneath ; nerves very strong ; petiole 1-14 in. Bacemes 

 axillary, 2-4 in. long, 6-1 0-flowered ; rather minutely puberulbus. Sepals 4, 2 outer ■ 

 broadly oblong, obtuse, very concave ; 2 inner twice as long, petaloid, oblong, obtuse. 



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