38 THE CAMPHOR-TREE OF SUMATRA. 
5-partita, laciniis ima basi inter se coalitis membranaceis, 0,015 longis, 
0,004 latis, lanceolatis. 
Stamina in fando corollæ annulo proprio dentibus triangularibus 
acutis erectis instructo insidentia, numerosa. In specim. Mill. 15 nu- 
meramus, sed plura lapsa sunt. Filamenta brevissima; anthers bilo- 
culares, introrsæ, in dorso linea media (connectivo) in mucronem ultra 
loculos elongata notatæ ; loculi membranacei, tota longitudine dehis- 
centes, marginibus loculorum involutis. 
Capsula glandem quercinam simulans, supera, ovata, stylo coronata, 
lignosa, fusca, externe striis longitudinalibus tenuibus prædita, basi 
cupula rotundato-gibba hemisphærica excepta, eique firmiter adherens, 
unilocularis, trivalvis, valvis æqualibus crassis, monosperma, 0,035 
longa, 0,015 lata (Colebr.), 0,03 longa, 0,015 lata (Gærtn. si eadem 
est ejus species quæ Colebrookii, quod incertum). 
Semen solitarium, magnum, cavitati capsule respondens, ovato- 
oblongum, antice suleatum, integumento fusco ad suleum intus flexum, 
et eum columna centrali colliquescens. Columna centralis e fundo cu- 
pulæ calycinæ oriunda, ad verticem adscendens, semen in illa directione _ 
in duos dividens lobos dorso connatos, inde aucta ; lobis longitudinali- 
bus, mollibus, columna brevioribus, intra cotyledonum plieas sese de- 
mergentibus; duobus majoribus lateralibus ad ventrem recurvis; 
duobus minoribus dorsalibus citra axem productis divergentibus 
(Geertn.). 
Albumen nullum. 
Embryo constans 2 cotyledonibus, carnosis, imparibus. Externus 
maximus, seminis formam constituentibus ; interior multo minor, late- 
ralis, subcochleatus. Plumula simplex, conica, diphylla. Radicula 
longa, sursum directa, in sulco cotyledonis externi contenta, apice 
conico obtusiusculo terminata, adscendens, supera. (Juxta spec. Mars- 
C Mus. Brit. Londinensis et descript. Cel. Gærtn. ) 
The tree here described belongs to the Natural Order Dipterocarpeæ 
_ (BL, Lindl). Al the trees belonging to this family are gigantic and 
Of a majestic appearance, and are chiefly remarkable for the beautifully 
coloured and winged fruits. All of them contain more or less of a 
balsamic resin. Shorea robusta produces a resinous substance, which 
is used at the religious solemnities of the Indians. Vateria Indica 
yields a resin which in India is used as copal, and is known in Europe 
