130 SIR DIETRICH BRANDIS—AN ENUMERATION 
herbarium specimens the conformation of calyx, petals, stamens, 
ovary, style, and stigma is the same in Vatica faginea and V. gran- 
diflora. According to Pierre, the ripe seed contains a little 
albumen, the embryo is straight, that is the radicle points upward, 
the cotyledons downward ; the radicle is short and the cotyledons 
are foliaceous. This does not agree with the seeds which I have 
been able to examine from Mergui and Perak specimens. I find 
no albumen ; the cotyledons are thick, fleshy, both bifid to the 
point of the attachment to the radicle (hypocotyl), which is nearly 
as long as the embryo, lying between the two lobes of the outer 
cotyledon, which is concave, embracing the inner, which how- 
ever is a little larger. 
30. Vatica ASTROTRICHA, Hance in | London] Journ. Bot. xiv. 
(1876) 241.—Synaptea astrotricha, Pierre, Fl. For. Cochinch. 
fasc. 15 (1890), t. 240. 
An important and widely-spread forest tree in lower Cochin- 
china. Leaves coriaceous; flowers 3 in. long. Two calyx- 
segments much larger than the others (in flower). Ovary half- 
immersed, densely stellate-tomentose; style ribbed, shorter than 
ovary. The larger segments of fruiting-calyx pubescent, 14 in. 
long, the smaller 3 in. long. Pierre’s description and figure of 
the embryo agrees with that described from Mergui and Perak 
specimens of the last species; but he adds that there are traces 
-of albumen in the ripe seed. 
The four species last described, V. Dyeri, grandiflora, faginea, 
and astrotricha, form a well-marked group; they are very closely 
allied, and it is not impossible that further studies on the spot 
in the forests of Burma, the Malay peninsula, Cambodia, and 
Cochinchina may show that some of them are only local varieties 
of a polymorphous species. 
The essential characters of this group are :—Dense ferruginous 
stellate tomentum on branchlets and inflorescence, more or less 
coriaceous leaves, which are elliptic or oblong-elliptic, with 10-14 
pairs of secondary and reticulate tertiary nerves. Flowers sessile 
or on very short pedicels, the inflorescence a racemose panicle, 
the ramifications of which are very short while the flowers are 
in bud, but lengthen out rapidly afterwards. At the time of 
flowering the branches of the panicle are spikes (or racemes) 
