141 SIR DIETRICH BRANDIS—AN ENUMERATION 
Pedicels and calyx clothed on the outside with bundles of long 
hairs, tomentose inside. Anthers hairy all over, hastate at base, 
the outer cells terminating in long points, which in the outer 
stamens, however, are short. Ovary conical, densely tomentose, 
3-celled, the dissepiments extremely thin ; style glabrous, filiform ; 
stigma minute. Fruit ovoid, 3-5 in. long, supported by the 
small adpressed fruiting-calyx ; pericarp 3 inch thick. Embryo 
almost cylindric ; cotyledons thick, fleshy, cells filled with starch 
and a few oil-drops, unequal, separated by an oblique plane, the 
larger cylindric with an obliquely truncated top, entire, the 
smaller bifid. In germinating the pericarp splits into three 
portions ; the (flat) petioles of the cotyledons lengthen out con- 
siderably ; the cotyledons are raised above the ground, and the 
fruit is thrown off. The first leaves above the cotyledons are 
alternate. 
3. VaATERIA SEYCHELLARUM, Dyer in Baker, Fl. Maurit. (1877) 
526, et in [London] Journ. Bot. xvi. (1878) 103.—Vateriopsis 
Seychellarum, Heim, Recherch. Diptérocarp. 94. 
Calyx glabrous; connective prolonged into a short point. 
Ovary glabrous. Fruit globose, 1l in. diam., supported by the 
small persistent fruiting-calyx, the segments of which are brittle 
and break off easily; pericarp leathery ; endocarp fibrous. Coty- 
ledons fleshy, base auriculate, and the short thick radicle enclosed 
by the auricles. The larger cotyledon slightly concave, but not 
quite embracing the smaller, which is deeply furrowed on the face 
towards the placenta. Cells filled with starch. In the germi- 
nating seed the cotyledons are on long petioles. 
Heim bases his genus Vateriopsis chiefly upon the glabrous 
calyx, the short appendage of the anthers, the glabrous ovary, the 
small fruiting-calyx, and the conformation of the ovary. These 
characters, however, are not sufficient to justify generic separation 
in this order. 
