Va/ica.] DipterocarpacecB. 127 



pubescence beneath, lat. veins very numerous, connected by 

 loops near the margin, petiole | in., rugose ; fl. rather large, 

 nearly sessile, in small axillary and terminal tomentose 

 spicate panicles much shorter than the 1., bracts large, | in., 

 acute, tomentose ; sep. tomentose ; nut spherical, \ in., very 

 hairy, loosely surrounded by irregularly enlarged, erect, 

 pubescent sep., the 2 largest 2 in., linear, obtuse, 3-veined, the 

 others f-i|in., lanceolate, acute. 



Moist low country ; rare. Hiniduma Pattu ; Hewesse ; Pasdun 

 Korale ; Lanegal Kanda, near PelmaduUa (F. Lewis). Fl. April. 



Endemic. 



I have not seen mature fls. The fruit was obtained at Hewesse in 

 June. Wood heavy, hard, smooth, pale greyish-yellow. 



The leaves of young trees attain very much larger dimensions than 

 those above given. 



Pierre (1. c. sub t. 237) erroneously refers this to Stemonoporus. 



2. S. (?) disticha, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 9 (1885). 

 Vateria {Stemonoporus) disticha^ Thw. Enum. 404. Vatica disticha^ 

 A. DC. 1. c. 620. C. P. 3707. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 303 ( Vatica (?). 



A large tree, young branches finely tomentose ; 1. 4-5 in., 

 lanceolate-oblong, obtuse at base, attenuate, acute, glabrous, 

 ■coriaceous, lat. veins about 11, conspicuous on both surfaces, 

 petiole I in., thick, rugose ; fl. in short, erect, axillary panicles, 

 bracts large, \-\ in., ovate, distichous, imbricate at first, 

 tomentose, soon falling ; fruit not seen. 



Moist low country ; very rare. Hinduma Pattu and Pasdun Korale 

 i(Thwaites). The C. P. specimens are from ' Lanegal Kanda, March, 

 1 861,' and are in bud only. 



Until further material is obtained the genus of this plant is quite un- 

 certain. Pierre (1. c. sub t. 237) says it is a Doona near D. nervosa. 



6. VATICA, L. (sect. Isauxis, Am.). 



Trees ; fl. in axillary panicles ; sep. 5, slightly connected 

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

 ■considerably enlarged but not wing- like, spreading, not 

 imbricate or enclosing the fruit ; fruit with a thick pericarp 

 marked with 3 grooves, indehiscent (or tardily 3-valved ?) ; 

 •cotyledons equal, thick, plano-convex, deeply divided into 

 2 equal lobes. — Sp. about 12 ; 6 in F/. B. Ind. 



Arnott's name Isauxis was given (Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 155) to a section 

 of Vateria, and was never used by him as a generic name. 



Stemonoporus might perhaps be combined with this, as is done by 

 A. DC. 



