276 XXIII. GUTTiFER^. (T. Anderson.) [Calophyllum. 



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

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



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



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

 to me. 



C. SuEioi, Buck. Bam; ex. Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 608. Calophyllum Soulattri, Bnrm. 

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

 quite unknown to me. 



C. ANHDSTiPouuM, Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 608 ; "twigs cylindric, leaves short -petioled 

 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, Boxb. 



4. K.AYEA, Wall 



Trees. Leaves opposite ; veins ratter distant, arched. Flowers hernaar 

 phrodite, either large and solitary, or small and eoUeeted iu terminal 

 panicles. Sepals and Petals 4 each, imbricate. Stamens numerous, filaments 

 slender, free or connate at the base; anthers small, subglobose, 2-ceUed, 

 dehiscence vertical. Ovarp 1-ceU.ed; style slender, stigma acutely 4-fid; 

 ovules 4, erect, Fruit subdrupaceoas, fleshy, iudehiseent, 1-4-seeded. Seeds 

 thick, testa thin and crustaeeous. — Distbib. Tropical Asia, 4 species. 



1. K,. florlbunda, Wall. PI. As. Bar. iiL 5, t. 210 ; Gat. 4840 ; leaves 

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

 pedicels 2-braeteolate. 



Dense tropical forests of the Easteen HoiaIiAya, in Sikkim, and the Khasia Mts., 

 ascending to 3000 ft. 



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

 coriaceous, base acute ; veins |-1 in. apart, slender, arched, prominent ou the under 

 surface, faint on the upper; petiole 1 in, slender, cylindric. Panicle 6 in. long, ter- 

 minal ; branches a.nd pedicels with 2 opposite bracts or bracteoles at their bases. 

 Flowers I in. diam. Outer sepals \ in. long, suborbicular, truncate. Petals a little 

 longer than the sepals, thin but fleshy, white, edges rosy. Stamens many, filaments - 

 capillary, exceeding the sepals. B'ruit the size of a chestnut, covered by the thick 

 accrescent yellow rugose calyx, tipped by the slender style, l-seeded. 



2. R.. racemosa, Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 269 ; leaves oblong- 

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

 teolate. Mesua singaporiana. Wall. Gat. 4836. 



Eastern Peninsula; at Sincapore, Wallich; Malacca, Maingay (Kew distrib. 177). 



A glabrous tree ; branches cylindric ; bark ashy. Leaves 4-5 by 1^ in., thin, rigid ; 

 petiole 4 in., terete. Bacemes short, axillary and terminal ; pedicels stout. Outer 

 sepals thick, rugose. Immature fruit as large as a filbert, tipped with the short subu- 

 late style. — Only one specimen seen, in the Linnsean 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 whorled branchlets, each 

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

 nerves beneath many, strong, arched, about 4 in. apart ; petioles ^-f 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 J in. diam. Sepals 

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

 rous, monadelphous at the base. — J. D. fi.] 



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

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



