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8. Vatica Dyeri, King, n. sp. A tree 80 to 130 feet high : young 

 branches, panicles, and calyx on both surfaces densely rufous-floc- 

 culent-tomentose, with stellate hairs intermixed, the branches ulti- 

 mately glabrous and their bark pale. Leaves membranous, usually 

 broadly elliptic, rarely elliptic-oblong, sub-acute or very shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the base rounded, both surfaces quite glabrous, 

 finely reticulate : main nerves 11 to 13 pairs, spreading, rather promi- 

 nent beneath : length 35 to 7 in., breadth 1*6 to 3 in. ; petiole "35 to 

 •5 in., flocculent-tomentose. Panicles axillary or terminal, cymose, 1*5 

 to 3 in. long. Floicers 4 in long. Calyx lobes unequal, the two larger 

 oblong and obtuse ; the three smaller lanceolate, acuminate. Petals 

 broadly elliptic, very obtuse, slightly narrowed to the truncate base, 

 much larger than the calyx-lobes, glabrous, except one of the outside 

 edges which is adpressed-pubescent. Stamens short, unequal-sided, 

 bluntly apiculate Ovary depressed-pubescent, the stigma capitate. 

 Rife fruit conical, the two large accrescent calyx-wings narrowly oblan- 

 ceolate-oblong, blunt, 5-nerved, 125 in. long and "25 in. broad ; the three 

 smaller wings one-fourth of the size of the larger, lanceolate, obscurely 

 5-nerved. Synaptea Dyeri, Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 241. 



Perak : King's Collector, No, 7662. Distrib., Cambodia, Lower 

 Cochin-China, Pierre. 



The Perak specimens are not in fruit : but in flowers and leaves 

 they agree with Pierre's specimens from Cambodia and Cochin-China. 



9. Vatica reticulata. King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : all 

 parts except the inflorescence glabrous ; young branches slender, dai'k- 

 coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, tapering from 

 the middle to each end ; the apex bluntly acuminate, the base very 

 cuneate and slightly unequal-sided, the edges sub-undulate ; both, sur- 

 faces finely reticulate when dry, the lower paler ; main nerves 8 or 9 

 pairs, little more prominent than the secondary ; length 2"5 to 3*5 

 ill., breadth 1 to 1"25 in., petiole "4 in. Panicles axillary or terminal, 

 puberulous, 25 to 3*5 in. long, lax, few-flowered. Flowers on long 

 pedicels. Calyx-lobes unequal, lanceolate, more or less obtuse, densely 

 pubescent on both surfaces. Ovary hemispherical, ridged, densely 

 tomentose ; style short, glabrous ; stigma minute. Young fruit sub- 

 globular ; fruiting calyx with 2 accrescent linear-oblong wings, the 

 other smaller ; all attached to the lower part of the fruit. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 6969. 



The only specimens which I have seen of this are without corolla, 

 stamens, or ripe fruit. The species is, however, a very distinct one, 

 and it is an iinmistakeable Vatica. I have therefore ventured to name 

 it in spite of the imperfection of the material. 



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