DIPTEROCARPACE A. 297 
erect-patent, unequally accrescent, rigid; one larger wing-shaped. 
Seed usually 1, ascending ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons thick sub- 
equal; radicle short inferior.—A pyramidal tree ; leaves alternate, 
entire, elongate, usually undulate, thickly parallel penninerved, 
scarcely reticulated ; stipules small caducous; flowers in more or 
less ramified compound racemes, terminal and axillary (Zrop. Western 
Africa). See p. 215. 
