130 DipterocarpacecB. [Vateria. 



7. BAIiANOCARFUS, Bedd. in For. Man., Add. 236 (1873?)- 

 Trees; fl. in axillary panicles; sep, 5 ; pet. 5 ; stam. 15, 

 anth. strongly apiculate; fruit with a thin pericarp, indehiscent, 

 surrounded at base by a shallow cup formed of the equally 

 enlarged very strongly imbricate sep. ; cotyledons plane- 

 convex, thick, very unequal, each divided nearly to the 

 base into 2 equal lobes ; radicle long, lying in a groove 

 between the lobes of the larger cotyledon. — Sp. 3 ; the other 

 2 S. Indian. 



The two species from the Tinnevelly Hills of S. India upon which 

 Beddome founded this genus are figured in his Fl. Sylvat. tt. 329, 330. 

 One {B. utilis, Bedd.) is the Hopea longifolia of Fl. B. Ind.; our species is 

 nearer the other, B. erosa, Bedd. 



Beddome describes the sep. in the Indian species as forming 'a hard 

 woody 5-lobed cup ; ' this does not quite apply to our plant, which indeed 

 doubtfully belongs to the genus. 



B. (?) zeylanicus, Trhn. in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 161 (1889). [Plate 

 XIV.] 



Shorea brevipeliolaris, Thw. in Trim. Journ. Bot. xxiii. 205 (1885). 

 C. P. 4008 (?). 



A small tree, bark smooth, blackish, young shoots strongly 

 pubescent or glabrous ; 1. 4-5 in., ovate or lanceolate-ovate, 

 rounded or subcordate at base, tapering to acuminate obtuse 

 apex, somewhat undulated, glabrous, lat. veins about 6, curved, 

 prominent beneath, with small glandular pits in the axils, 

 petiole |-;^ in., thick, rugose, glabrous or densely pubescent; 

 fl. shortly pedicellate, secund on short spreading branches of 

 slender pubescent panicles, 2 or 3 of which come from a leaf- 

 axil and are shorter than the 1., buds nearly spherical ; 

 sep. ovate, obtuse, glabrous ; fil. much dilated below, 

 apiculus as long as anth. ; fr. f-i in., ovoid, acute, strongly 

 apiculate, enlarged sep. \ in., broadly oval, very obtuse, hard, 

 glabrous, much imbricated, forming a shallow, somewhat 

 spreading cup, pericarp thin, brittle, glabrous, embryo green. 



Intermediate region ; very rare. Only known from summit of Doluwa 

 Kanda (about 1000 ft. ?) a few miles N. of Kurunegala, but probably 

 occurs elsewhere. C. P. 4008 is without locality, and is probably different. 

 Fl. May, June. I have not seen fully developed fls., only buds. 



Endemic. 



8. VATERIA, L. 

 Trees; fl. in panicles; sep. 5, slightly connected at base; 

 pet. 5, distinct ; stam. about 50, anth. linear, with each cell 

 produced into a filiform tail, connective not apiculate ; fruit 



