Monoporandra.} xxv. DIPTEROCARPE.E. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 317 



randra does not differ from the Stemonoporus section of Valeria (with which 

 genus Thwaites now unites it) except in the number of stamens. Thwaites 

 however figured and described the ovary as 2-celled, and from the examina- 

 tion of M. cordifolia I find this to be correct. 



1. UK. cordifolia, Thwaites in Hook Journ.'Bot.vi. (1854) 70 ; Enum. 39 ; 

 leaves ovate shortly caudate-acuminate base cordate or rounded midrib and 

 lateral nerves depressed above, panicles about 1 in. many-flowered. A. DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. 2, 237. Vateria cordifolia, Thwaites Enum. 404. 



CEYLON ; Ambagamowa and Saffragam districts, elevation about 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



A moderate-sized much branched tree ; young parts puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves 

 2-4^ by 1-2J in., glabrous on both surfaces, opaque above, lateral nerves about 7 pairs ; 

 petiole |-1 in., tumid at the apex. Flowers drooping, yellow. Calyx-segments lanceo- 

 late, acute. Fruit the size of a pea, brown, mottled. 



2. IKE. eleg-ans, Thwaites in Hook. Journ. Eot. vi. (1854) 69, t. 2 B ; 

 Enum. 39 ; leaves elliptic abruptly and slenderly caudate-acuminate midrib 

 depressed lateral nerves prominent above, peduncles 1-4-flowered about 

 fin. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 636. Vateria elegans. Thwaites Enum. 404. 



CEYLON ; Saffragam district, alt. about 2000 ft., Thwaites. 



A moderate-sized tree; young parts glabrescent. Leaves 2^-3 by f-1 in., base 

 obtuse or rounded, lateral nerves about 1 pairs ; petiole ^ in. Calyx- segments linear- 

 lanceolate. Petals oblong, obtuse, pale- yellow. Anthers lanceolate, pulverulent, fruit 

 globose, T 5 s in. diam., with a drooping peduncle. 



An imperfect fruiting specimen of a large tree collected by Major Beddome in South 

 Tinnivelly and there called Karanyongoo, appears to belong to a new genus intermediate 

 between Pachynocarpus and Vatica. Twigs brown barked, with minute white spots. 

 Leaves 34-4 by Ij-li in., lanceolate, obtuse, entire, lateral nerves 10 pairs, scarcely 

 prominent; petiole about ^ in. flowers in short terminal or axillary puberulous 

 panicles ; pedicels in. Calyx-tube very short, segments ^ in., ovate, minutely acumi- 

 nate, thickened, with numerous minute pale warts externally. Capsule f in. diam., nearly 

 globose, apiculate, glabrous, striate. Seed solitary ; cotyledons fleshy, deeply 2-fid, 

 enclosing the superior radicle. 



ORDER XXVI. MALVACEAE. (By Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S.) 



Herbs, shrubs or rarely soft- wooded trees, with mucilaginous rarely acid 

 juice, and tenacious inner bark ; herbaceous portions generally more or less 

 densely covered with stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, palminerved, simple 

 lobed or rarely compound. Stipules free, sometimes caducous. Bracteoles 3 

 or more, scattered or approximate, free or combined, often forming an epi- 

 calyx. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary fascicled or cymoso-paniculate, 

 regular, hermaphrodite or 1 -sexual. Sepals 5, valvate, free or connate. 

 Petals 5, twisted-imbricate. Stamens oo , rarely definite, adnate to the base of 

 the petals ; filaments monadelphous, forming a tube, rarely a column ; 

 anthers oblong or reniform, cells sinuous or twisted, linear or annular, 

 ultimately 1-celled, bursting longitudinally; pollen globose, granular, 

 muriculate. Ovary 2- many-celled, entire, or lobed, of 2-5 or usually more 

 carpels whorled round a central axis ; styles connate below or throughout 

 their length ; stigmas linear peltate spathulate or capitate ; ovules 1 or 

 more, curved, attached to the inner angle of each carpel. Fruit of dry 

 indehiscent or dehiscent cocci, or capsular and loculicidal, sometimes large 

 and woody. Seeds reuiform or obovid, glabrous hairy silky or woolly; 



