Vateria. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA: 601 
_ woolly margins. Stamens and pistil inserted on a large re- 
ceptacle. Anthers bearded. 
A native of the Moluccas, dried specimens have only 
been seen, the genus is therefore doubtful, and the more 
so-as the leaves are opposite. 
VATERIA. Schreb. gen. n. 906. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx five-cleft, permanent. Corol five- 
petalled. Germ superior, three-celled ; cells two-seeded; 
attachment superior. Capsule one-celled, spinebioi 
Seed solitary. Embryo inverse, no perisperm. - sseyre 
1. V. lanceefolia. R.- 
Leaves alternate, ieesadisn, entire. Panicles sxilary. 
Stamina fifteen. 
_ Moal, the vernacular name in Silhet. 
. A middling sized, spreading tree, a native of the hills 
in the vicinity of Silhet, and Chittagong, where it flowers 
in May, and the seed ripens in July and August. 
From wounds, &c. in the bark, a clear liquid exudes, 
which soon hardens into a very pure pale amber coloured 
resin; from which the natives obtain by distillation, a dark 
coloured, thick, strong smelling balsam, called chooa, or 
chova, by the people who prepare and sell it ; and Goond 
’ by the brahmins, who use it in their religious ceremonies 
and temples. f sek 
Branches numerous, and generally cadena peak of 
the old ligneous parts pretty smooth and ash-coloured ; 
of the young shoots quite smooth. Wood white, and ve- 
ry close in the grain. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, 
lanceolate, some of the largest may be called oblong; 
all are entire, some obtuse, some acuminate ; all are 
smooth-pale ; coloured underneath, from four to eight inch- 
es long and from one to three broad, with im. le veins 
— to the margin.  Panicles_ axillary. r 
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