$7,4 BAEQN FERDINAND VON MUELLER. RECORD OF 



RECORD QF HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED PLANTS 

 FROM ARNHEIM'S LAND; 



jBy Baron .Ferdinand von Mueller, k.c.m.g.,m.d.,ph.d., f.r.s. tfcc. 



[Read be/pre the Royal Society, N.S.W., November 5, 1890.~\ 



Calophyllum Soulattri. 



N. L. Burmann, flora Indica 121 (1768). 



Tall ; brancjalets at first slightly tomentellous ; leaves large, on 

 f rather short stalks, from ovate- to elongate-elliptic, glabrous ; 

 . racemes short, pf ten reduced to fascicules or umbels, always 

 , glabrous ; flowers comparatively small, on stalklets of generally 

 much greater length ; sepals four ; petals none ; stamens about 

 fifty ; anthers several times longer than broad ; style fully as long 

 .as the stamens ; fruit relatively small, globular or verging some- 

 what into an ovate fprm, outside dark-coloured, without any lustre. 

 Not previously recorded from Australia, Mr. Holtze found the 

 t tree to be 30 - 40 feet high, and the flowers as those of most con- 

 .geners white and fragrant. Our plant accords well with speci- 

 mens collected by Tyesman in Sumatra and by Zollinger in Java. 

 Burmann's description is very brief ; for identification there- 

 fore must mainly be relied on the Malayan vernacular " Soulattri," 

 which however is applied also to the much rarer C. Teysmanni, 

 C. dasypodum and possibly to some other species. Nevertheless 

 ,it is almost s sure, that Burmann had our species, the subsequently 

 , described C. spectacle in view, although Hasskarl regarded the 

 plants of \yjl s lolen l o.^ t and of Burmann as distinct from each other; 

 ' but as L}e Canflolle, Ij>lume, Miquel, Planchon and Triana all quote 

 , unhesitatingly C. Sopilattri under C. spectabile, it seems but just, 

 ! to restore the, earliest name. The short description given on this 

 , occasion is solely jfrom Australian specimens. In India the fruit 

 , seems to ,assu;me .occasionally an oval shape. The Bintangor 

 silvestris, taken f up by Rumphins from M. B. Valentini, cannot 

 be readily identified :With our species, as the leaves are figured at 

 , reduced size and more pointed, the pedicels shown shorter, and 

 , the flowers are not delineated. Thus C. acuminatum remains- 

 , also yet obsqu^e, and gCjUld only be re-established by starches in 

 Amboina. C. Inophyllum, according to specimens from the great 

 Kew establishment, was found already, 1802, by R. Brown on 

 , the Northumberland Islands, where I saw it in 1855, as well as 

 ..on Lord Howick's group. Furthermore, Cunningham early 

 , recorded it in p the appenjdpc to King's Voyages. Besides from 

 ( these localities and those mentioned in the Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. 

 5 IX., 175, we also know this useful plant now as Australian from 

 Ooode Island (Powell), Endeavour River (Persieh) and Russell 

 j River (Sayer). 



