OF THE DIPTEROCARPACE ZX. 127 
F. New Guinea. 
22. VATICA PAPUANA, Dyer in [London] Journ. Bot. xvi. (1878) 
100; Burck in Ann. Jard. Buitenz. vi. (1887) 229.—Vateria 
papuana, Hemsl. Voy. Challenger, Bot. iii. 123, 287, 296, t. 64 B; 
Dyer MS. fide Hemsl. 
Ramoi, New Guinea (Beccari); Arrow Island (d’Albertis). 
Fruits from the New Guinea drift and sea-beach, Arron Islands. 
The fruits from the drift preserved at the Museum, Kew, are 
1$ in. long, 1j in. diam., with 3 furrows down to below the 
middle. Calyx-segments reflexed, } in. long. A thin crustaceous 
endocarp lining cavity of fruit. Two fleshy cotyledons filled 
with starch, one thick plano-convex, the other thinner. Leaves 
and flowers not seen. 
23. V. SCHUMANNIANA, Gilg in Engler’s Jahrb. xviii. (1894), 
Beibl. (n. 45) 38.—Vatica papuana, K. Schum. et Hollr. Fl. 
Kaiser Withelm’s Land, 52, non Dyer. 
. Kaiser Wilhelm's-land, Augusta Fluss (Hollrung, 653). 
Fruit more ovoid than that of V. papuana, fruiting-calyx 
smaller. Pericarp thick, fibrous spongy. Testa thin; hypocotyl 
very short, with 9 large resin-ducts; cotyledons thick, fleshy, 
plano-convex, not bifid. Very thin remains of placenta and 
dissepiments between the cotyledons, no trace of abortive ovules. 
Cotyledons permeated by numerous resin-ducts; cells of 
parenchym filled with starch-grains of different sizes and shapes. 
Subgenus II. Isavxis, Arn. 
Prolongation of connective as long as anther. Stigma con- 
sisting of 3 or more short fleshy lobes. Segments of fruiting- 
calyx equal, longer than fruit and enclosing it. 
24. V. KUNSTLERI, Brandis.—Retinodendron Kunstleri, King 
in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, lxii. pars 2 (1893), 129.— PI. III. 
fig. 10. 
Perak. 
A shrub or moderate-sized tree ; youngest branchlets and ramifi- 
cations of inflorescence with stellate hairs. Leaves thinly coria- 
ceous, elliptic-lanceolate. Secondary nerves 7-10 pairs, slightly 
curved, tertiary reticulate. Pedicels longer than calyx. Axillary 
