Puates 2759 and 2760. 
VATERIA SEYCHELLARUM, Dyer. 
DIPTEROCARPES®. Tribe VATERIE, 
V. Seychellarum, a 98 in Baker, Fl. Maurit. p. 326 ; foske Bot. xvi 
. 103; Brandis, Journ. Linn. Soe. xxxi. 44; ; species habitu 
re. ceylanicce, a ae “iffert petiolis longioribus, gianinibas indefinitis, 
sepalis haud reflex 
Arbor 80-100 ae alta, ramulis petiolisque canitie fulva obtectis, 
denique glabriusculis. lia elliptica vel obovato-oblonga, ad 9 1. 
subtus prominentibus, petiolo tereti, ad 4 poll. longo, stipulis ignotis. 
Racemi ee 14-2 poll. longi, pauciflori. lores breviter pedicellati, 
glabriusculi, } poll. ope Sepala ovata, obtusa, fructu minime accreta, 
nequaquam recurv etala obovata, erosa, apice m avi nibusque 
incurvis. Siattna' ‘perplura, apiculo brevi munita ; anther valvis 
exterioribus majoribus. Ovarium glabrum. ructus globosus rng 
metro sesquipollicaris, calyce persistente suffultus, pericarpio fibros 
Semina in fructu prec ermin otyledones carnose, petio- 
voles orbiculares, ad basin auriculate, plano-convexe, externe radiato- 
cate, ra iculam iucurvam crassam complectentes.— Vateriopsis 
Bejck ellarum, Heim, Recherch. Diptérocarp. p. 94. 
SEY s: near Port Glaud, Mahé, J. Horne; Mahé, without 
weet hasnt H. P. Thomasset 
This interesting species is the most tele a of the order as 
now usually lim ited. The une expected o e of so marked an 
Indo- Malayan type on a distant island composed "of bebe rocks is a 
act of great interest in geographical bot Tt was discovered in 
1874 by Mr. John Horne, FLS., Tate ‘Director of Gardens and 
resin, formerly used for incense. The tree is now becoming scarce and 
‘large trees are now only found near Port Glaud (erroneously pao 
7ox-DYER. 
PLATE 2759. 
Fig. 1, a flower-bud ; 2, section of a flower from which the sepals and petals have been 
remoy “ey 3and 4, different views of an anther; 5, cross-sectionofanovary. Al enlarged. 
Prate 2760. 
Fig. a fruit; 2, the e, from which a portion of the pericarp has been 
Blak OO 3-5, ped iaiet pore in different stages. All natural size. 
