Calophyllum
(from kalos, beautiful, and phyllon, a leaf; the leaves are large, of a beautiful green, and elegantly veined). ORD. Guttiferae. Fine stove evergreen trees. Flowers disposed in axillary racemes. Leaves furnished with numerous transverse, parallel nerves. They thrive in a compost of loam, sand, and peat. Cuttings of half-ripened shoots will root in sand, if placed under a glass, in bottom heat.
C. Calaba. Calaba-tree. fl. white, sweet-scented, loosely race-mose; racemes lateral, very short. fr. green. l. obovate or oblong, obtuse or emarginate. h. 30ft. West Indies, &c., 1780.
C. inophyllum (fibrous-leaved). fl. snow-white, sweet-scented, loosely racemose; racemes axillary; peduncles one-flowered, usually opposite. fr. reddish, the size of a walnut. l. oblong or obovate, obtuse, but usually emarginate. Branches round. Tropics of the Old World, 1793. A medium-sized tree.