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unequal, the outer much longer, dehiscing longitudinally from 
apex to base. Ovary narrowed into filiform style with minute 
stigma. Fruit large, supported by small persistent fruiting- 
calyx, the segments of which are equal. Cotyledons thick, fleshy, 
unequal. 
Numerous (25-60) resin-ducts in the circumference of the 
pith, which are very unequal in size, the smal] thin-walled cells 
lining these ducts filled with a resinous dark-coloured substance. 
Vateria Seychellarum has the same arrangement of the leaf-traces 
as Stemonoporus, that is, the apical trace precedes the two lateral 
traces. Regarding the other species the examination has not yet 
been completed. The petiole has an outer semicircle of 10-15 
confluent vascular bundles, each with one resin-duct in the 
pith. The central mass consists of two halfmoon-shaped vascular 
bundles, with 3-7 large resin-ducts. (Plate I. fig. 18.) 
1. VATERIA INDICA, Linn. Sp. Pl. 515; Roxb. Corom. Pl. iii. 
t. 288 ; Wight, Ill. i. t. 86; Dyer in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 
313.—Vateria malabarica, Blume, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 84. 
Evergreen forests at the foot of the Western Ghats from Canara 
to Travancore. Planted largely as an avenue tree; also above the 
ghats in the western and moister districts of Mysore. 
Leaves with 14 pairs of secondary nerves ; pedicels longer than 
calyx-segments. Calyx on the outside stellate-tomentose, pubes- 
cent on the inside. Anthers hairy at base, otherwise glabrous ; 
appendix of connective as long as anther (Engler, Nat. Pflanzen- 
fam. iii. 6. Fig. 127 C-E). In some specimens two appendages 
have occasionally been found. Ovary tomentose; style filiform, 
glabrous; stigma minute. Fruit 2-23 in. long, splitting open 
in three valves ; fruiting-calyx small, segments reflexed. Coty- 
ledons filled with fat (“ Piney tallow "). 
2. V. ACUMINATA, Hayne, Arzn. Gew. xi. (1830) sub t. 5; 
Dyer in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 313; Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, 1. 
131; Heim, Recherch. Diptérocarp. t. 3.—V. indica, Gaertn. f. 
Fruct. iii. t. 189 ; Blume, Mus. Bot. ii. t. 4. 
Moist low country of Ceylon, especially near streams. 
Leaves very hairy, with 20 pairs of secondary nerves; pedicel 
shorter than calyx, in the axil of two large deciduous unequal 
bracts, the larger of which is exterior, overlapping the smaller. 
