602 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Vateria. 
than the leaves, composed of several, alternate, compound, 
smooth branches. Flowers numerous, pretty large, white, 
and fragrant ; in the bud imbricated. Calyx five-parted, 
outside hoary, permanent, and much increased in size by 
the time the seeds are ripe; segments ovate, and acute. 
Petals five, linear-falcate, obtuse, spreading, with a con- 
cave base, forming a gibbous tube round the stamina and 
pistillum, and hiding all except the stigma ; in the bud im- 
bricated. Filaments fifteen, very short and thick, inserted 
into the receptacle; round the base of the germ, one Oppo-— 
site to each petal, and two between. Anthers short, ovate, 
two-lobed ; crowned with asingle subovate gland. Germ 
superior, ovate, ribbed, villous, three-celled, with two 
ovula in each, attached to the top of the axis in a way 
perfectly distinct from Jussieu’s Guttifere. Style short. 
Stigma clavate, three-toothed. Capsule ovate, of the size 
of a pigeon’s egg, rather thick, And of a pretty’ firm tex- 
ture, when dry one-celled, three-valved, opening from 
the apex. Seeds generally one, sometimes two, scarcely 
ever more, when single, conformed in shape to the cap- 
sule. Integuments single, smooth, dark brown and thin. 
Perisperm none. Embryo inverse. Cotyledons two, con- 
form to the seed, nearly equal, thick, and of a firm fleshy 
texture ; one or both bifid from the apex to the attachment 
of the circle, which is a little below the middle, two — 
toothed. Radicle lanceolate, superior. The whole being 
very exactly the perfect embryo of the other Shorace@, - 
only the cotyledons are here more equal than in the ere 
Shorea itself. « 
2. :V. indica. sp. pl. 734. Gert. sem. 3. 52. ¢. 189. 
- Leaves alternate, oblong. Panicles terminal. Stawae 
from forty to fifty. 
Eleocarpus copaliferus. Retz. Obs. 4. n. bee wit 2. 
1170. Vahl. symb. 3. 6.7. geal a. 
- Paenoe. Rheed, Mali 4.¢.15. = pene? 
