Calophyllum.'] 
XVIII. GUTTIFERiE. 
1S1 
3. CALOPHYLLUM, L. 
Trees, rarely shrubs, with opposite shining coriaceous leaves 
with innumerable very slender parallel nerves at right angles to 
midrib. Flowers bisexual in axillary or terminal panicles white. 
Sepals and petals 4 to 12, or petals o, imbricate in 2 or 3 series. 
Stamens indefinite; filaments filiform free or connate at base; 
anthers 2-celled, dehiscence vertical. Ovary i-celled; style slender. 
Stigma small peltate; ovule 1 erect. Drupe with a thin fleshy 
pericarp. Seed ovoid or globose. About 35 species, chiefly 
tropical Asiatic, a few American. 
The generic Malay name for these trees is Bintangor, from 
Bintang, a star, in allusion to the bright flowers. The timber of 
all is highly valued in shipbuilding. 
Series A . No petals. 
Flowers axillary solitary or in pairs rarely in 
very short panicles, very small. 
Leaves obovate ...... 
Leaves lanceolate; flowers in pairs 
Leaves lanceolate; flowers in panicles of 5 
Flowers in axillary fascicles .... 
Flowers in axillary racemes, quite glabrous. 
Leaves less than 5 in. long. 
Leaves ovate to ovate lanceolate; pedicels 
twice as long as flowers .... 
Leaves elliptic oblong; pedicels as long as 
flowers ...... 
Leaves elliptic lanceolate; racemes densely 
crowded ; pedicels not exceeding flowers . 
Buds, petioles, inflorescence pubescent. 
Bush. Leaves ovate or elliptic 1 to 1-5 in. 
long. 
Trees. Leaves obovate obtuse . 
Trees. Leaves elliptic .... 
Leaves narrow oblong 3 in. long 
Leaves more than 5 in. long. 
Leaves narrow elliptic 6 to 12 in. long 
Midrib only pubescent. .... 
Whole leaf beneath tomentose . 
Flowers sub-panicled terminal .... 
Series B. Petals 4 or more. 
Leaves elliptic thinly coriaceous 
Leaves obovate retuse thickly coriaceous . 
Leaves elliptic ovate small; petals 4 to 6 . 
Leaves elliptic; flowers and fruit small; petals 4 
Leaves oblong sub-sessile .... 
Leaves oblong petiolate. 
Inflorescence rufous tomentose 
Inflorescence glabrous; flowers -35 in. across; 
fruit globose 1 in. through 
Flowers 1 in. across; fruit ellipsoid 5 in. long 
Leaves sessile orbicular . 
(1) C. parvifolium 
{2) C. lanceola 
(3) C. rupicolum 
(4) C. Kunstleri 
{5) C. pulcherrimum 
(6) C. Prainianum 
(7) C. floribundum 
(8) C. pisiferum 
(9) C. retusum 
(10) C. oblongifolium 
(11) C. ferrugineum 
(12) C. spectabile 
(13) C. Curtisii 
(14) C. molle 
(15) C. canum 
(16) C. inophyllum 
(17) C. inophylloide 
(18) C. venustum 
(19) C. fcetidum 
(20) C. subsessile 
(21) C. Wallichianum 
(22) C. Griffithii 
(23) C. macrocarpum 
(24) C. rotundifolium 
