85 STERCULIA ALATA. 
cordate, entire smooth 3-5-nerved; from four to twelve 
inches long, and from three to eight broad. Deciduous 
about the time the blossoms appear in February and March. 
Petioles round, smooth, from one to four inches long. 
Stipules minute, subulate, caducous at a very early period. 
Racemes axillary, sometimes terminal, then sub-panicled, but the 
most common mode is racemes in pairs from the axils of the 
former year's leaves toward the end of the branchlets, and 
about as long as the petioles, or more ; densely clothed with 
ferruginous, stellate pubescence. 
Flowers pretty large, short-pedicelled, reflex, male and female on 
the same racemes. 
Bractes ensiform, three under each flower, and caducous at a very 
early period. 
Calyx campanulate, divided nearly to the base, into five, thick, 
fleshy, recurved, lanceolar segments ; outside clothed with 
ferruginous, stellate pubescence ; inside elegantly striated 
with crimson and yellow. 
Corol none. 
MALE HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS. 
Golumn of the abortive fructification, and stamina cylindric, greatly 
shorter than the calyx, straight. 
Filaments scarce any. Anthers imbricated in five fascicles of about 
five each, which unite below the middle, and form a cup 
round the five imperfect germs. 
FEMALE HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS. 
Column none. 
Stamina: five sessile bundles of imperfect anthers embrace the 
five grooves of the base of the germs. 
Germs five ; singly semiovate, one-celled, with two rows of ovules 
in each, vertically attached to the inner angle of the cell. 
Styles short, recurved, villous. Stegmas rather broad, and 
emarginate. 
Follicles, or rather leguminous capsules from one to five, from the 
size of a man’s fist, to that of an infant’s head, nearly round, 
long-peduncled, one-celled, one-valved ; valve thick, tough, 
and very fibrous ; surface densely clothed with a brownish- 
olive, mealy pubescence. 
Seeds many, attached to the margins of the valve, oblong, con- 
siderably compressed, each terminated by a long, broad, 
spongy wing, (hence the specific name), which becomes thin, 
and sub-membranaceous at the apex. Integuments three ; 
exterior a brown, friable, spongy body, which with a few 
fibres form the wing ; middle, or second form, an oval nuciform 
envelope for the embryo only, (and seems composed of three 
parts ; the exterior and interior thin, brown, and friable, and 
the middle part thicker, tough and hard,) cntertor a thin 
membrane. 
Albumen none. 
Embryo: Cotyledons equal, conform to the seed, 3-nerved. Plumula 
2-lobed. Radicle patelliform, lodged immediately within 
the umbilicus, (relative centripetal.) 
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288. VATERIA INDICA. 
Leaves alternate, oblong, entire, smooth, coriaceous. Panicles 
terminal. 
Vateria indica. Linn. sp. pl. 734. Gert. sem. 8. p. 53. t. 189. 
Eleocarpus copalliferus Retz. Obs. 4. p. 27. Linn. spec. plant. 
edit. Willd. 2. p. 1170. Vahl. symb. 3. p. 67 2 
Paenoe. Rheed. mal. 4. p. 33. ee 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A very large and handsome tree, a native of Malabar. In the 
Bidanore country, where my specimens are from, it is called the 
Dammer tree, and blossoms during the hot season. Seed ripe in 
August. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Young shoots, and all the tender parts, except the leaves, covered 
with fine stellate pubescence. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong, entire, from emarginate, to 
obtuse-pointed, smooth, coriaceous, from four to eight inches 
long, and from two to four broad. 
Petioles round, about an inch long. 
Stipules oblong, caducous. 
Panicles terminal ; ramifications rather remote. 
Flowers rather remote, pedicelled, pretty large. 
Bractes oblong, one-flowered, caducous. 
Calyx to the base 5-cleft ; divisions oblong, obtuse, villous on the 
outside. 
Corol 5-petalled, contorted. Petals oval, emarginate, broader, but 
very little longer than the divisions of the calyx. 
Filaments 40-50, short, broad, inserted between the petals, and 
the base of the germ. Anthers linear, witha single filiform 
beak. 
Pistil. Germ above, conic, downy, (one-celled with the rudiments 
of three or four seeds.) Style longer than the stamens. Stigma 
simple, truncate. 
Pericarpium: a coriaceous, fleshy, oblong, obtuse, one-celled, 
3-valved capsule ; general size about two and a half inches 
long, and one and a half in diameter. 
Seed solitary, shape of the capsule. 
Norr.—In all the flowers examined by me, the stamina had 
uniformly short, broad filaments, and linear anthers terminating 
in a single, tapering, acute thread, or soft bristle. Can Koenig's 
Ceylon tree with two bristles be the same? The superior calyx 
of Retzius I must consider a mistake. 
ROYDSIA. 
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. | Sect. Apetalous. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx inferior, 6-parted. (Corol none.) Stamina on a columnar 
receptacle. Germ pedicelled (above the insertion of the 
