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6. Yateria, Linn. 



Resinous trees. Leaves usually coriaceous. Flowers in terminal 

 or lateral panicles or 1-3 on axillary peduncles. Calyx segments 

 very shortly united at the base. Stamens 15 or about 50 ; anthers 

 linear or oblong, connective usually muticous. Ovary of 3 2-ovuled 

 cells ; style subulate, entire or shortly lobed. Capsule 1-seeded, 

 ovoid or globose, coriaceous or fleshy, indehiscent or 3-valved; 

 calyx persistent, scarcely accrescent, reflexed around the pedi- 

 cel. Cotyledons large, fleshy, unequal, enclosing the superior 

 radicle. 



VATERIA INDICA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 313 ; Roxb. Cor. PI. iii. t. 288 ; 

 W. & A. 84 ; Wt. 111. i. t. 36. V. malabarica, Bl. ; Bedd. Fl. 

 t. 84. 



A very large evergreen tree ; stem smooth, blotched with 

 green and white ; leaves ovate, with 14 pairs of nerves ; 

 flowers '8 in. across, white, fragrant, drooping in large 

 panicles ; fruit ovoid, rough, pale brown, 2 in. long. 

 Evergreen forests of the W. Ghats from S. Canara to Tinne- 

 velly at low elevations, up to 2,500 ft. or sometimes 

 higher, often planted. The Piney Varnish or Indian Copal 

 tree. 



Wood greyish brown, rough, not much used. The stems 

 afford a resin and the seeds an oil. Vern. Kan. Dhupa, 

 Gugli ; Tarn. Vallei kuntrikam ; Tel. Dupada ; Mai. Payin. 



Family XXY. ANCISTROCLADACEAE. 



Glabrous climbing shrubs with hooked branches. Leaves with 

 entire coriaceous blades and short petioles ; nerves pinnate and 

 reticulate ; stipules small and deciduous or 0. Floivers regular, 

 bisexual, in axillary or (apparently) terminal racemes or panicles, 

 mostly caducous ; pedicels jointed at the top. Calyx enlarged in 

 fruit; tube very short, adnate to the ovary; lobes 5, unequal, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, unequal, contorted, slightly connate at the 

 base. Stamens 5-10; filaments short, dilated at the base and 

 there connate ; anthers introrse. Ovary 1-celled, with one erect 

 or lateral .ovule ; styles 3 ; stigmas terminal. Ntft indehiscent, 

 1-seeded, mucronate, adnate to the calyx tube, and surmounted 

 by the enlarged calyx lobes. Seed globose ; albumen copious, 

 fleshy, ruminate, 



