CALOPHYLLUM WIGHTIANUM. (Nat. ord. Guttiferse.) 



J or Gen. Char, see letter press to PI. ii. 



CaLOPHYLLDM AVlGHTIANUM. (Wall.) A middling sized tree, young shoots square glabrous, leaves oval obovate 

 or rhomboid very obtuse at the apex, very firm coriaceous and shining 3-4 inches long by 1|-1J broad, petioles about 3 lines long, 

 racemes few flowered shorter than the leaves, glabrous or when young slightly puberulous towards the base, peduncles about \ an inch 

 long, rather slender furnished with a small boat shaped caducous puberulous bract at their insertions on the raceme, sepals 4, petals 0, 

 stigma peltate entire. Wall. Cat. 4847. C. spurium, Choisy in DC. Prod. vol. 1. P62. C. caloboides, &. Don. C. apetalum, Willd 

 Spr. Sys. ii. 571- C. calaba, L. in part. C. decipiens, Wight. III. p. 128. 



This tree is common near the banks of rivers on the western side of the Madras Presidency, and is called Kalpoon in S. Canara, vihere 

 it is very common, and its timber is much esteemed; the -specimens figured are from S.Canara, and unfortunately have no fruit, which is described 

 by Dr. Wight as " small, oval, somewhat attenuated at both ends"; it was formerly described as having only 4 floral envelopes, viz. 4 sepals and no 

 petals, but Dr. Wight says that he discovered 8. I have dissected a large quantity of buds and have never found more than 4; it is possible that 

 the tree here figured differs from Dr. Wight's, but 1 believe it to be the apetalum of Willdenow. The timber is of a red color, very hard and 

 heavy, and valuable for engineering purposes. 



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