Vateria. polyandria monogynia. COl 



woolly margins. Stamens and pistil inserted on a large re- 

 ceptacle. Anthers bearded. 



A native ot" the Moluccas, dried specimens have only 

 been seen, the genus is therefore doubtful, and the more 

 so as the leaves are opposite. 



VATERIA. Schreh. gen. n. 906. 



Gen. Char. Ca/j/jf five-cleft, permanent. Coro? five- 

 petalled. Germ superior, three-celled ; cells two-seeded ; 

 attachment superior. Capsule one-celled, three-valved. 

 Seed solitary. Embryo inverse, no perisperm. 



1. V. lancecefolia. R. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolate, entire. Panicles axillary. 

 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. 



Branches numerous, and generally reclinate. Bark of 

 the old ligneous parts pretty smooth and ash-coloured; 

 of the yoiing shoots quite smooth. Wood white, and ve- 

 ry close in the grain. Leaves alternate, short-petiolcd, 

 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 simple veins 

 extending to the margin. Panicles axillary, shorter 



