Vateria. polyandria monogynia. 603 



Peini marum. Buck. Journey in Mysore, Canara, Sjc. 

 2. 47G. 



A very lar^e and handsome tree, a native of Malabir, 

 In the Bednore countrj% 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 Konig'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 

 Eleor.arpus, 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 to four broad. Petioles round, about 

 an inch long. Stipules oblong. Panicles terminal, ra- 

 mifications rather remote. Flowers rather remote, pedi- 

 celled, pretty large. Bractes oblong, one-ilowered. 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, shape of 

 the capsule. 



Abundance of the resin called copal exudes from this 

 tree, in its native soil. When recent it is found from pale 



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