88 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
they are very numerous, supported on a distinct filament, glabrous, and sirens in 3 oe 
slender bristle point. There are besides differences in the leaves, but these I consider o : 
value as a specific distinctions than the peculiarities of the flowers, 
fith, I observe specimens of some new species of this order, but which T do not consider a 
at liberty to name or describe, as I presume it is his intention to publish descriptions of th 
that the plant figured is distinct from. all those in my collection 
place of 15, the usual number : name 
fo an error or oversight of the artist, and which was not 
e Peninsular ones there are two 
from Mergui, but none have yet reached me from Ceylon, 
about three times the length of the calyx. Stamens 
15, anther cells oblong. Style short. Stigma clavate 
Subgenus 1, Evvarerra (4rn.) Segments of the 3—6 tooth 
oothed. Paricles axillary shorter than the leaves. 
calyx scarcely enlarging when in fruit, obtuse. Petals 2. PF. lanceefolia. Roxb. Leaves lanceolate, acute 
oval, scarcely longer than the calyx. St at the base, ~ 
anth ells linear 
3. V. Roxburghiana R. W. Leaves ovate, oblong, 
#anicle large termin retuse, or obtuse at the base. 
l. V. Indica. Lin. ray. eylanica R. W. Leaves obovate, very ob- 
Subgenus Il, Isavxis (Arn.) Segments of the calyx tuse, retuse at the point, narrow at the base: anthers 
arging when in fruit, ovate, acute, Petals faleate hairy, Stigma acute. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 96, 
“i, Flowering branch of Vateria Indica—natural 4. A branch of the panicle in fruit. : 
Size, - A fruit cut transversely, showing the irregular 
2. Calyx, corolla and anthers, ° 
. form of the eg, ledons—ail more or less magn fied. 
_, 2 Ovary, style, and stiyma, with two stamens left to oo J ae 
show their bypogynous insertion, 
