84 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Balanocarpus. 



#. Balanocarpus, Bedd. 



Large trees, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves entire 

 with minute deciduous stipules. Flowers in unilateral panicled 

 racemes. Calyx lobes imbricate on a flat torus. Stamens 

 (10-)15 ; filaments dilated afc the base ; anthers short, ovate, 

 exceeded by the apical awn. Nut oblong or globose, apiculate, 

 often marked by numerous raised lines, enclosed at the base by 

 the thickened and accrescent sepals which often attain 1 in. in 

 length and spread horizontally. 



Leaves unequally cordate at the base ; petals bilobed ; fruit ovoid 



1. erosa. 



Leaves rounded at the base or acute ; petals entire, pubescent, crenulate ; 

 fruit globose 2. utilis. 



1. BALANOCARPUS EROSA, Bedd. For. Man. 237 ; Fl. t. 329. 



Tinnevelly Ghats, at 2,000 to 3,000 ft. 



2. BALANOCARPUS UTILIS, Bedd. For. Man. 237 ; Fl. t. 330. 

 Hopea longifolia, Dyer, F. B. I. i. 309. 



Tinnevelly Ghats, S. of Courtallum, at 1,000 to 3,000 ft. 



5. Yatica, Linn. 



Large or medium-sized resinous trees. Leaves coriaceous, 



entire or a little undulate, finely reticulate ; stipules small and 



caducous. Flowers axillary and terminal, usually paniculate and 



tornentose. Calyx-tube very short, adnate to the base of the 



ovary ; segments slightly imbricate. Stamens 15 ; anthers oblong, 



apiculate. Ovary of 3 2-ovuled cells ; style short ; stigma entire 



or shortly 3-toothed. Capsule leathery, 3-valved, 1-2-seeded, 



attached to the spreading and often winged accrescent calyx. 



VATICA CHINENSIS, Linn. V. Roxburghiana, Bl. ; F. B. I. i. 302; 



Bedd. Fl. t. 95. Valeria Boxburghiana, Wt. Ic. t. 26. 



A large evergreen tree with thin grey bark and ovate to oblong 



obtuse leaves having 10-14 pairs of nerves ; petals 5 times as 



long as the calyx ; stamens in 2 rows ; fruit globose, shortly 



pointed, reticulate, surrounded at the base by the enlarged 



sepals. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats at low elevations on the banks of 



rivers from S. Canara and Mysore to Travancore. 



Wood reddish brown, hard and good, but little used. Vern. 



Mai. Vellei payin, Adakka payin. 



