602 poLYANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Valeria. 



than the leaves, composed of several, alternate, compound, 

 smooth branches. Flowers numerous, pretty large, white, 

 and fragrant ; in the bud im]?ricated. 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 aeon- 

 cave base, forming a gibbous tube round the stamina and 

 pistilliim, 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 w ilh a single subovate gliind. Germ 

 superior, ovate, ribbed, villous, three-celled, with two 

 ovnla in each, attached to the top of the axis in a way 

 perfectly distinct from Jussieu's Guttiferce. Style short. 

 Stigma clavate, three-toothed. Capsule ovate, of the size 

 of a pigeon's c^^, 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, whicli is a little below the middle, two- 

 toothed. Radicle lanceolate, superior. "J'he whole being 

 very exactly the perfect embryo of the other Shoraceee, 

 only the cotyledons are here more equal than in the genus. 

 Shorea itself. 



2. V. indica. sp. pi 734. Gcert. sem. 3. 52. f. 189. 



Leaves alternate, oblong. Panicles terminal. Stamina 

 from forty to fifty. 



Eleocarpus copaliferus. Retz, Obs. 4. n. 85. Willd. 2, 

 1170. VaJil. symb. 3. G. 7. 



Paenoe. Rlieed, Mai. 4. 1. 15. 



