224 NATURAL IIISTORY OF PLANTS. 



15, 3-seriatc ; cells quite connate from apex (Slemonoporus 1 ), some- 

 times, more rarely oo ; valves of anthers distinct at apex and subulate- 

 acuminate' [Hemiphr actum*). Germen of Vatica, 3-locular ; style 

 subulate. Capsule globose or ovoid, coriaceous or subflesliy, furnished 

 with base of sepals scarcely accrescent and reflexed, indehiscent or 

 3-valved. Embryo of thick seed fleshy ; cotyledons unequal, usually 

 involute or corrugate-lobed, enclosing superior radicle. — Resinous 

 glabrous, furfuraceous, or tomentose trees ; leaves entire coriaceous 

 penninerved reticulate-venose ; stipules small or almost wanting, de- 

 ciduous, more rarely larger, persistent ; flowers axillary, 1-3-nate 

 or oftener in racemose axillary simple or terminal ramified cymes, 

 sometimes 1 -lateral {Trojj. Ada*). 



7. Monoporandra Thw. 5 — Flowers small, nearly of Valeria ; 

 stamens 5, alternipetalous ; anther valves 6 subequal or unequal ; con- 

 nective muticous. Germen, small fruit, fructiferous calyx, and seed 

 of Valeria. 1 Ramified glabrous or slightly tomentose trees ; leaves 

 entire coriaceous penninerved reticulate-venose ; stipules minute, 

 deciduous or ; axillary inflorescence of Valeria (Zej/lama s ). 



8. Hopea Roxb. 9 — Flowers nearly of Valeria ; receptacle short. 

 Sepals 5, subfree, closely imbricate, unequal ; exterior 2 larger in bud. 

 Stamens 10, of which 5 are alternipetalous, larger, and 5 oppositi- 

 petalous ; or much oftener 15, 3-seriate, of which 10 are alterni- 

 petalous ; filaments often dilated at base, anthers introrse ; connective 

 subulate, cuspidate. Germen of Valeria ; style more or less dilated 

 at base, apex shortly terete or subulate. Fruit indehiscent ; 2 lobes 

 of fructiferous calyx accrescent, wing-shaped, closely connivent round 

 base of pericarp. Seed ovoid; embryo exalbuminous, cotyledons 

 thick-fleshy, unequal, sometimes inclosing superior radicle. — 



1 Thw. in Hook Journ., vi. 67, t. 2. 6 As in Valeria sect. Stemnoporus. 



- Ending in seta;. " From which genus it only differs in 5- 



3 Turcz., in Bull. Mosc. (1859), i. 26°.. androus flowers. 



4 Spec, ad 12. Vaitl, Symb. Bot., iii. 67 8 Spec. 3. Thw., Emm. PI. ZeyL, 39.— 

 (Elcecarpus).— Wight & Aen., Prodr., i. 83. — Walp., Ann., iv. 334 ; vii. 381. 



Aen., in Ann. Nat. Hist., iii. 155. — Wight, III., 9 PI. Corom., iii. 9, t. 210. — Poie., Suppl., iii. 



i. t. 36.— Bl., Mas. Lugd.-Bat., ii. 28.— Thw., 57. — Endl., Gen., n. 5396. — H. Bn., in Payer 



Enum. PI. Zeyl., 37. — Walp., Ann., iv., 336 ; Fam. Nat., 273. — B. H., Gen., 193, n. 9.— 



vii. 3S0. Petalandra Hassk., Hort. Bogor., 104. — ? Pen- 



6 In nook. Journ., vi. 69, t. 2.— B. H., Gen., taeme A. DC, Prodr., 626. 

 194, n. 12. 



