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pointed appendage. After the pollen is shed, the 4 valves remain 
attached to the connective, resembling four thin membranous 
wings (figs. 15, 16). The same is the case in many other species 
of Vatica. Ovary entirely immersed in receptacle (fig. 17). This 
does not agree with Pierre’s description and figure, but I find 
it to be the case in the Perak specimens as well those from 
Cochinchina. According to Pierre, the seeds when ripe are 
albuminous ; I have had no ripe seeds at my disposal. 
28. VATICA GRANDIFLORA, Dyer in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 
(1872) 301.—Synaptea odorata, Griff. Notul. iv. 516, t. 585 4. 
fig. 5.—A nisoptera odorata, Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burma, i. 112. 
Martaban ; Tenasserim ; Singapore. 
A moderate-sized tree, with pink sweet-scented flowers. 
Leaves chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate. Secondary nerves 10-14 pairs, tertiary reticulate. Flowers 
Zin. long. Ovary partly, sometimes only slightly, immersed in 
the receptacle, densely clothed with stellate hairs; style glabrous, 
as long as ovary, 5-ribbed ; stigma broad, consisting of five short 
rounded lobes. Large resin-cavities in the receptacle, also sur- 
rounding ovary-cells. Larger segments of fruiting-calyx oblan- 
ceolate, 24 in. long, with stellate deciduous pubescence; smaller 
segments lanceolate, one-third the length of the larger. 
29. V. FAGINEA, Dyer in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. (1872) 
301; King in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, \xii. pars 2 (1893), 105; 
Pierre, Fl. For. Cochinch. fasc. 16 (1891), t. 242. 
Tenasserim ; Perak; Cochinchina. 
Leaves coriaceous; flowers 3 in. long. Fruiting-calyx glabrous, 
shining ; larger segments linear-faleate, 23 in. long, the smaller 
one-fifth the length of larger. 
As already noted by Dyer, it seems doubtful whether this is 
distinct from V. grandiflora. In Perak it is a tree 80 to 100 ft. 
high; in Cochinchina it only attains 15 to 20 metres. Helfer 
(islands near Mergui) calls it a large forest tree, in full flower in 
January 1839, very sweet-scented, an ornament of the forest, 
resembling a pear-tree in full flower. Griffith speaks of it as 
“frutex vel arbuscula, petalis sanguineis.” These discrepancies 
can only be cleared up by study on the spot in the forest. Like 
other species of Vatica, this produces flowers early in life. In 
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