134 SIR DIETRICH BRANDIS—AN ENUMERATION 
Connective thick, fleshy ; anther-cells diverging at base ; appen- 
dage obtuse, longer than anther. Ovary free, tomentose; style 
glabrous, sulcate; stigma of five round lobes. 
D. Philippine Islands. 
45. Vatica Maneacuarot, Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. I. (1837) 
401; A. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. (pars 2) 623; Vidal, Sinopsis, 
Atlas, t. 15 B. figg. 1-6, et Pl. Vasc. Filip. 61.— V. apteranthera, 
Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. II. (1845) 281.—Pteranthera Mangachapoi, 
Blume, Mus, Bot. ii. 30.—Cotylelobium philippinense, Heim, MS. 
in Herb. Kew. 
Luzon: San Mateo, Manila (Vidal, nn. 69, 70,72, 78); La Paz, 
prov. Tarlac (Vidal, nn. 68, 75); Boso Boso, distr. Morong 
(Vidal, 74) ; Sabani, prov. Nueva Ecija (Vidal, n. 988) ; Canderio, 
prov. Lambab (Warburg, n. 13480). 
A large tree (Blanco). A moderate-sized tree (Warburg). 
Glabrous, excepting inflorescence and young shoots, which are 
clothed with grey stellate tomentum. Stipules small, caducous. 
Leaves pale,on both sides, coriaceous, lanceolate; blade 3-5, 
petiole 4 in. long. Secondary nerves 7-9 pairs ; tertiary reti- 
culate. Flowers 3 in. long, on pedicels nearly as long as calyx, 
in racemes which are not unilateral, these arranged in terminal 
and axillary racemose panicles. Pseudoterminal flowers frequent 
between the main axis and a branch of panicle. Calyx-segments 
in flower more or less unequal, two larger, on both sides with 
grey stellate pubescence. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, hairy 
outside. The five interior stamens or filaments longer than 
anthers, the ten outer on very short filaments; prolongation of 
connective short, conical. Ovary more or less immersed in 
receptacle, tomentose with stellate hairs; style glabrous, 5- 
ribbed; stigma of five conical lobes, the two larger segments 
of fruiting-calyx 2 in. long, linear-oblong, narrowed at both 
ends, with five longitudinal nerves joined by oblique veins. 
Fruit (not ripe) globose, tomentose, } in. diameter, the three cells 
still visible, one ovule more developed than the others. 
After consulting Mr. Rolfe at the Herbarium, Kew, who 
worked up, with the late Mr. Vidal, the plants collected by the 
latter, I have decided to accept Vidal’s identification, although 
the following points are against it:—(1) The petioles Blanco 
