Vateria. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 603 
- Peini marum, Buch. Journey in Mysore, Canara, &e. 
2. 476. 
A very large and handsome tree, a native of Malabar. 
_ In the Bednore country, it is called the Dammar tree by 
the English, and blossoms during the hot season; the 
seed ripens in August. 
Note. 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 Kénig’s Ceylon tree with two bristles be the 
same? The superior calyx of Retz, I must consider a 
mistake. However the genus is perfectly distinct from 
Eleocarpus, and every other known to me. 
Young shoots and all 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 tofour broad. Petioles round, about 
an inch long. Stipules oblong. Panicles terminal, ra- 
wifications rather remote. Flowers rather remote, pedi- 
celled, pretty large. Bractes oblong, one-flowered. Ca- 
lyx five-cleft to the base ; divisions oblong, obtuse, vil- 
lous on the outside. Corol five-petalled. Petals oval, 
emarginate, broader but very little longer than the di- 
visions of the calyx. Filaments from forty to fifty, short, 
broad, inserted between the petals and the base of the 
. germ. Anthers linear, with a single filiform beak. Germ 
Superior, conic, downy, three-celled ; cells containing 
three ovula, each attached to the top of the axis. Style 
longer than the stamens. Stigma acute. Pericarpium a 
coriaceous, fleshy, oblong, obtuse, one-celled, three-valved 
capsule; general size about two and a half inches long, 
and one and a half in diameter. Seed solitary, Bisnis of 
the capsule, — . 
Abundance of the resin called copal exudes from this 
tree, in its native soil, When recent itis fo a pale — 
Mux it 
