86 XXIII. DIPTEEOCAKPACE.E. 



late 01- cuspidate. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style shortly 

 terete or subulate. Fruit nut-like, indeliisceat, usually 1 -seeded, closely 

 enclosed within the base of the calyx-lobes. Seeds ovoid ; cotyledons 

 fleshy, unequal, enclosing a superior radicle. — Distrib. Tropical Asia 

 and Malaya ; species about 45. 



1. Hopea Wightiana, Wall. Cat. (1828) 6205. A large tree; 

 young branches pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaves 5-8 by 2-3 in., 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, rounded at the 

 base ; lateral nerves 7-10, oblique, curved ; petioles | in. long, velvety- 

 pubescent. Elowers secund, in axillary panicles, the panicles 1-6 

 together, slender, glabrous, shorter or rarely longer than the leaves ; 

 bracts lanceolate, y .7-g in. long ; pedicels very short. Calyx glabrous ; 

 lobes (when flowering) ovate, obtuse, the exterior larger. Petals pink, 

 I in. long, oblong, acute, externally pubescent, ciliate. Filaments 10, 

 dilated at the base, each alternate one carrying 2 anthers ; anthers 

 ovate, each with a long filiform appendage about 4 times its length. 

 Nuts 4 in. long, ovoid, apiculate, glabrous, surrounded by the accrescent 

 calyx, 2 of the lobes of whicli are developed into long crimson wings 

 2-2| by l-f in., oblong-obovate, 7-9-nerved. Fl, B. I. v. 1, p. 309 ; 

 Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 96 ; Brandis & Gilg, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. 

 v. 3, part 6, p. 261, fig. 121, h-m ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 18; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 126 ; Brandis, Enum, Dipter. 

 in Journ, Linn. Soc. v. 31 (1895) p. 58 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, 

 p. 273. 



A globular, echinate excrescence, resembling the young fruit of the 

 horse-chestnut, i)robably due to some insect, often deforms the in- 

 florescence. Roxburgh described this deformation as Artocarpus lanccB- 

 folia (Fl. Ind. v. 3, p. 527). 



The figure k, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. 1. c, which is taken from 

 Wight, 111. t. 37, does not show the 2 anthers on the alternate filaments. 

 These are well figured by Beddome, 1. c. — Flowers : Mar.-June. 



Common along the banks of rivers and streams in the S. Konkan and N. Kanara. 

 Konkan: Sloc/iifl; S. Konkau, Zr«o ! Kanaka: Supa, 7W(7«c, 83! ; evergreen forests, 

 N. Kanara, BrancUs\ ; Kala naddi, Ritchie, S'-i ! S. M. Countuy: Londa, Woodrow ; 

 Castlerock, CooJic ! 



4. VATERIA, Linn. 



llesinous trees, glabrous, tomentose or furfuraceous. Leaves quite 

 entire, coriaceous, penninerved, reticulately veined ; stipules small, de- 

 ciduous or inconspicuous (rarely large and persist(!nt). Flowers white, 

 in terminal panicles, or 1-3 on axillary ])edunclcs. Calyx : tube very 

 short, aduate to the torus ; lobes imbricate, scarcely enlarged in fruit, 

 reflexed. [Stamens 15 or more ; anthers linear or oblong, the exterior 

 valves of the cells the largest with involute margins ; connective rarely 

 produced. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style subulate ; 

 stigma small. Capsule ovoid or globose, coriaceous or fleshy, 1-seeded, 

 indehiscent or 3-valved. Seeds thick ; cotyledons thick, unequal, the 

 largest usually lobed, involute, enclosing the superior radicle. — l)iSTn,iB. 

 Tropical Asia, Mauritius ; species 3, 



1. Vateria indica, fAnn. ,S)>. PI. (1753) p. 515. A large and very 

 handsome tree ; bark whitish ; yoiuig branches and inflorescence clothed 

 with hoary, stellate pubesceuce. Leaves 5-8 by 2-4 in., elliptic-oblong, 



