CALOPHYLLUM (from the Greek Kalos, beautiful, and Phullon, a leaf), a genus of plants to the natural order Garciniacefe. C. angustifolium, inophyllum, and tacanthaca, grow in S.E. Asia ; but in Southern India several species have not as yet been determined. They furnish useful timber,—C. angustifolium yielding one of the poon spars of commerce, and C. calaba, the East Indian tacarnahaes, though C. inophyllum is also quoted as the tactunalmea tree. Iu Tenas scrim the house carpenters often use the timber of a species of calophyllum, which also furnishes spars. A species of the Poona marum is a large tree common in the Western Ghats of peninsular India. Its wood is much used in house, and to some extent in ship building. C. angostifoliutn grows in Penang; C. Blumii, Wight, in Java ; C. Burmanni, in Ceylon ; C. decipiens, in Travancore ; C. longifolium, in Bombay ; C. !iloonii, in Ceylon ; C. polyanthum, IVall., in the Khassya mountains; C. tactimaliaca, in Madagascar and the Seychelles; C. tomentosum, IViyht, in Ceylon. C. amcenutn, Wall., is a timber tree of the Andaman Islands. C. bintagor grows in the Moluccas. C. brac teatum, Thw., a great tree growing in the Saffra gain district of Ceylon by the sides of streams, at no great elevation. C. Burnianni, Wight, Blast.
i. 129, grows in the hotter parts of the island of Ceylon, and at no great elevation. C. cunei folium, Thw., a great tree, grows in Ceylon at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 feet at Madamahane wera. C. Moonii, Wight, Illust. i. 129, Domba keena-gass, SiNnit., a great tree of the Ceylon forests, in the district between Galle and Ratna pura ; not uncommon. C. tomentosum, lVight, Illust. i. 128, Keene tel, SINGH., is a tree of Ceylon, growing abundantly in the Central Provinces, at an elevation of 3000 to 5000 feet ; common ; its timber is valued for building purposes; and the seeds are collected in consider able quantities for the oil they contain. C. tra pezifolium, Thw., a great tree of Ceylon in the Hunasgiria district, in the Central Provinces, growing at an elevation of 4000 to 5000 feet. C. Wa]kerii, Wight, Illust. i., a tree of Newera Ellin, Adam's Peak, and other of the most elevated parts of Ceylon. An oil is extracted from the seeds of this and the other species of the genus, which is used for burning.—Thw. Erman. Pl. Zeyl. i. p. 51 ; Choisy ; Roxb. ; Voigt ; Mason • Gamble.