. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 54 XV. GUTTIFEEiE [Calophylhcm ovules few, mostly one only. Drupe with a crustaceou§ endocarp, cotyledons tMcl^j fleshy, the cells filled with oil. Species 60, tropics of both hemispheres. A. Petals 4. 1. C. Inophyllum,Linn.; Wight Ic. t 77. Alexandrian laicrel^ Punna^ Malyal. A middle-sized ornamental tree or shrub, glabrous, buds only with minute. EiGr. 23.—Calophyllnm Inophylhim, Linn. ^. rusty hairs. Leaves elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 54 XV. GUTTIFEEiE [Calophylhcm ovules few, mostly one only. Drupe with a crustaceou§ endocarp, cotyledons tMcl^j fleshy, the cells filled with oil. Species 60, tropics of both hemispheres. A. Petals 4. 1. C. Inophyllum,Linn.; Wight Ic. t 77. Alexandrian laicrel^ Punna^ Malyal. A middle-sized ornamental tree or shrub, glabrous, buds only with minute. EiGr. 23.—Calophyllnm Inophylhim, Linn. ^. rusty hairs. Leaves elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or obovate, blade 4-8, narrowed into petiole |-1 in. long. PL scented, white, 1 in, diam., in axillary racemes. Fr. yellow, 1 in, diam. A littoral species, on the west coast from Bombay, on the east coast from Oribba southwards. Andamans and Tenasserim. Fl. C. S. On the sea coast, within the tropics, from Madagascar to Australia and the Pacific. Often cultivated. Tlie beedb yield oil. 2. C. elatum, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 2. This and C\ tomentostim are known as the Foon spar tree, A tall tree, wood light red, shining, branchlets and petioles glabrous. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, blade 3-5, petiole f-l in. long. El. in ample terminal pubescent panicles, sepals hairy, the 2 outer small, the 2 inner petaloid, and as large as petals. Er. ovoid, apiculate, 1| in. long. Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, and adjoining hills, from South Kanara to the Palnis. PL January-Pebuary. 3. C. tomentostim, Wight Ic. t. 110. Evergreen forests of ISforth Kanara, branchlets and petioles rusty-tomentose. PL in axillary racemes, the 4 sepals of nearly equal size. 4. C. polyantMm, "Wall. Sit&im to 5,000 ft., Khasi hills, hills east of Tonngoo (Kurz, P. PL i. 95). A large tree, almost entirely glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, blade 4-7, petiole marginate, J-1 in. PL white, i in. diam., in axillary racemes and terminal panicles. Pr. globose, | in. diam. '5. C. trapezifolinm, Thwaites. Travancore e
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