Vatica.] xxiv. DiPTEROCARPEiE (olivek). 173 



short or obsolete, adnate to the torus ; lobes enlarj^ed in fruit, equal or un- 

 equal, usually patent or if ascendincr not connivent over the fruit. Stamens 

 indefinite (or 15 in Asiatic species) ; anthers ovate or oblong, rarely linear, 

 with a cuspidate connective or simply acute in bud ; cells equal* or the 

 outer slightly larger. Ovaiy S-celled ; ovules usually 2 in each cell ; style 

 subulate or terete; stigma entire or 3-toothed. Vruit coriaceous, inde- 

 hiscent, usually 1-seeded. Seed ovoid or siibglobose ; cotyledons thick 

 fleshy unequal, or foliaceous and contortuplicate in the following species 

 (Kirk). — Tomentose or glabrous trees or (in F.africana) frutesceiR. Leaves 

 entire or repand, penniveined, stipulate. Panicles or racemes terminal or 

 axillary. 



A tropical Asiatic genus. The indefinite stamens of the African plant ally it to SAorea, 

 to which genus I should have referred it were it not for its spreading calyi-lobea in fruit. 



1. v. africana, TFelw. in Linn. Trans, xxvii. (ined.) t. 5. A shnib or 

 sometimes arborescent, attaining 20 ft. ; extremities tomentose-pubescent, 

 rarely glabrous. Leaves petiolate coriaceous oblong-elliptical obtuse or 

 sometimes retuse, with or without a mucro, narrowly rounded or subcordate 

 at the base, glabrescent above, closely rusty- or cinnamon-tomentose beneath, 

 rarely glabrous ; midrib and primary parallel lateral veins very prominent 

 beneath, l|-4 in. long, |-lf in. broad ; petiole |-f in. Flowers in few- 

 flowered axillary racemes shorter than the leaves or crowded or variously fas- 

 cicled towards the extremities. Bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, deci- 

 duous. Sepals free nearly or quite to the base, ovate, obtuse, subequal, 

 distinctly imbricate. Petals three times as long, oblong-lanceolate, thinly 

 pilose within. Stamens indefinite, bi-(or pluri-) seriate ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers dorsally affixed, short, elliptical, with equal cells, pointed or subapi- 

 culate. Ovary hairy. Pruit " 1- or 2-seeded ;" globose, subapiculate ; calyx- 

 lobes free nearly to the base, patent or ascending, oblanceolate, oblong or 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, longitudinally nerved and coarsely re- 

 ticulated, 1-lf in. long. " Cotyledons foliaceous, equal, applied to each 

 other, lobed at base, contortuplicate ; radicle superior " {Dr. Kirk). 



Var. /axa. 5-7 ft. Leaves usually from 2-2^ in. long. Flowers in loose, axillary, few- 

 flowered racemes ; pedicels often ^ in. ; and 



Var. /it/poleuca. Leaves 3^-5^ in. long, retuse, closely whitiah-toraeutose beneath. 

 Pedicels | in. Both forms in — 



Iiower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Weltcitsch ! 



Var. glomerata. 20 ft. Leaves often larger. Flowers closely fascicled. 



South Central. Eastern slope of Batoka Hills, Br. Kirk ! 



Var. glabra. Shrub of 4 ft. Leaves glabrous ; petiole ^ in. Western slope of same 

 hills, Dr. Kirk ! 



The Batoka specimens are not in a good state for comparison, so that, notwithstanding 

 the differences indicated, it would be premature to make more than one species. 



2. LOPHIRA, Banks; Benth. ct Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 192. 



Calyx deeply 5-partite; segments rotundate, broadly imbricate, of the fruit 

 at least 2 enlarged, 1 three to four times longer than the other, rigid, wing- 



