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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



closely surrounded by free sacciform accrescent base of calyx (tuber- 

 culate, costate, longitudinally winged or transversely lamellate) and 

 crowned with very unequal (smaller 3, larger 2, wing-shaped) erect, 

 rather rigid, venose lobes. Seeds free ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo unequal, thick, fleshy, corrugate, lobed, or contortuplicate ; 

 radicle superior. — Tall resinous trees ; leaves alternate coriaceous, 

 entire or sinuate-dentate, parallel penninerved, transversely venose 

 between nerves ; stipules large, valvate, closed, including germen, 

 afterwards circumscissile at base, leaving annular cicatrice, deciduous ; 

 flowers' in scanty axillary racemes (Asia and Trop. Oceania 1 ). 



3. Anisoptera Korth. 3 — Flowers nearly of Dipterocarpus, recep- 

 tacle obconical concave. Sepals perigynous, scarcely connate at 

 base, lanceolate, at first imbricated, finally sub valvate or open. Corolla 

 contorted and stamens co ; connective subulate-cuspidate ; exterior 

 valve of cells, usually larger. Germen 3- or more rarely 2- or 4, 5- 

 locular, partly inferior ; ovules of Dipterocarpus ; style . . . . ? thick 

 conical, apex attenuate very shortly 2~5-fid. Fruit capsular, inde- 

 hiscent, partly inferior ; seed 1 (of Dipterocarpus) ; sepals 2, wing- 

 shaped, accrescent round fruit as in Dipterocarpus ; smaller 3 ; all 

 inserted on receptacle adnate to fruit (i.e. subepigynous). — Eesini- 

 rloral trees; leaves of Dipterocarpus ; stipules small or minute, caducous; 

 flowers in loose compound ramified terminal racemes (Eastern Tropical 

 India, Archipelago*). 



4. Vatica L. 5 — Flowers subregular ; receptacle narrow subplane or 

 rather concave. Sepals 5, free or connate at base, imbricate when young, 

 afterwards subvalvate or open. Corolla contorted. Stamens usually 

 1 5, 6 of which 5 are oppositipetalous ; 5 other alternipetalous, larger ; 



1 Often rather large handsome odoriferous, 

 whitish pink or somewhat purple. 



2 Spec, ad 25. 1!oxb„ PL Coromand., t. 213. 

 — Bi„ FL Jav. Dipteroc, 8, 1. 1-6 ; Mus. Lugd.- 

 Ii/tt., ii. 35, t. 4. — Korth., Verh. Nat. Gesch. 

 Bot., t. 5. — Wight & Abn., Prodr., i. 84. — 

 Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 496; Prodr. Fl. Sum., 

 190, 485; Mus. Ludg.-Bat., i. 213. — Thw., 

 JEnum. PI. ZegL, 23. — Hook. F., in Trans. 

 Linn. Sue, xxiii. 159 — Tuitcz., in Bull, Mosc. 

 (1863), i. 576— Wai.p., Rep., v. 121 ; Ann., iv. 

 335 ; vii. 377. 



3 Verh. Nat Gesch. Bot., 65, t. 6.— B. II., 

 Gen., 192, n. 4. — Anlerolriche Tuncz., in Bull. 

 Mosc. (1846), ii. 505. 



4 Spec. 4, 5. Bl., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., ii. 41, t. 

 6.— Miq., Fl, Ind.-Bat,, i. p. ii. 500 j Prodr. 

 Fl. Sum,, 191, 485.— A. DC, Prodr., 614.— 

 Waip., Sep., v. 124; Ann., i. 113 (Anterotriche); 

 iv. 335 (part.) ; vii. 378. 



5 Mant'iss., ii. 152. — J., Gen,, 259. — Poir., 

 Diet., viii., 418.— Ill, t. 397.— DC, Prodr., i. 

 517. — Spach, Suit, a Buffbn, xiii. 310. — Endi., 

 Gen., n. 5395.— B. H., Gen., 192, 981, n. 6 — 

 Pteranlhcra Bl., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., ii. 30. — 

 Sunaptea Griff., Notul., iv. 56, i. — Monoles 

 A. DC, Prodr., 623. 



6 In African species oo (Oliv.). 



