126 Dipterocarpacece. [Sunaptea. 



3. H.(?) cordifoUa, Trim. 



Vatica (?) cordi/olia, Thw. Enum. 404. C. P. 3726. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 303. 



A very large tree, bark thick, with deep, longitudinal 

 fissures, nearly black, young parts softly pubescent ; 1. large, 

 5-7 in., ovate -oblong, strongly cordate at base, subacute, 

 glabrous, shining above, lat. veins 5-7, oblique, conspicuous 

 beneath, with glandular pits in 2 or 3 of their axils, petioles 

 I in., rugose, stip. very small, subulate, caducous ; fl. not seen ; 

 enlarged fruit-sep. 3^—4 in., wings oval-oblong, not tapering 

 to base, 9-veined, nut I in., pointed ; cotyledons deeply divided 

 into 2 long lobes. 



Intermediate region at 1500-2000 ft.; very rare. Along banks of 

 streams at Tanamilwila and Telula, near the Wellaway River, in Atakalan 

 Korale. 



Endemic. 



Leaves only were first collected in Sept. 1857, and were doubtfully 

 referred by Thwaites to Vatica. Specimens (old and half-rotten) of the 

 fruit have been sent to me (April, 1891) by Mr. Broun, and appear to 

 indicate a Hopea., but flowers are still wanting, and the correct position 

 of the tree cannot be determined at present. 



It is called ' Mendora ' where it grows. 



Wood heavy, hard, yellow, smooth, and shining. 



5. SUNAPTEA, Griff. 



Trees ; fl. in short axillary panicles, with large deciduous 

 bracts; sep. and pet. 5; stam. 15, apiculate ; fruit-sep. all 

 enlarged, 2 much more so than the others, wing-like, erect, 

 loosely surrounding the nut, the bases not thickened ; coty- 

 ledons slightly unequal, bilobed. — Sp. about 10; 5 in 

 FL B. Ind. 



This is the section of Vatica called Eu-Vatica in Fl. B. Ind., but the 

 fruiting cal. is quite unlike that of Vatica, and it cannot come under 

 Linnaeus' genus (see Trim, in Journ. Bot. x.xiii. 204). S. batttafnensis and 

 S. ba7ica7ia are figured by Burck (1. c. tt. 27 and 28), and 6". astrotricha, 

 S. Dyeri, and S.faginca by Pierre (Fl. For. Cochinch. tt. 240-242). 



Leaves finely scabrous beneath . . . i. S. scabriuscula 

 Leaves glabrous beneath. . . . . 2. S. ij) disticha. 



I. S. Bcabriuscula, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. I'l. 9 (1885). Na- 

 mendora, .S*. [Plate XIL] 



Vateria {Stonoiioporus) scabriuscula, Thw. Eninn. 404. Vatica 

 scabriuscula, A. UC. in DC. Prod. xvi. 2, 620. C. P. 3708, 3542. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. }pi{VaHca). 



A large tree, young shoots woolly-pubescent ; 1. 4-5 in., 

 lanccolatc-oblong, o'otusc at base, shortly acuminate, obtuse, 

 glabrous above, very finely scabrous and white with stellate 



