Vateria] 



XVII. DIFTEROCARPACE.E 



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A large handsome evergreen tree, j r oung shoots and inflorescence clothed 

 with scurfy stellate tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic-oblong, 

 blade 4-10, petiole 1-1 h in. long, secondary nerves 14-16 pair, prominent 

 beneath as well as midrib. Fl. A in. across, in large terminal panicles, pedicels 

 longer than calyx segments. Petals spreading, slightly pubescent outside. 

 Stamens 40-50, filaments short, anthers linear, hairy at base, cells unequal, 

 the outer much longer, appendix of connective as long as anther. Ovary 

 tomentose, style filiform, stigma minute. Fruit ovoid, 2—2 .V in. long, splitting 

 open into 3 valves, fruiting calyx small, segments reflexed. Cotyledons filled 

 with fat (Pine}' tallow). 



Evergreen forests along the "Western Ghats, ascending to 1.000 ft. Planted largely 

 as nn avenue tree below and above ghat in the moister western districts of Mysore. 

 Fl. H. S. 



Obdek XVIII. ANCISTROCLADACE^:. Planchon; Gilg in 

 Engler u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. 6. p. 274. 



Only Genus: ANCISTROCL ADUS, Wall; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 299. 



Evergreen, glabrous, woody climbers, numerous strong hooked tendrils 

 terminating the principal branches, the leaf- and flower-bearing branchlets 

 being axillary. Leaves entire, sessile, lanceolate, usually iu tufts at the ends 

 of branchlets, stipules minute, caducous. Fl. bisexual, calyx aduate to ovary, 

 lobes 5, imbricate, petals 5, slightly contorted. Stamens 5 or 10, filaments 

 broad, short, connate at base. Ovary 1-celled, ovule solitary. Fruiting calyx 

 much enlarged. No resin ducts. Species 8, one in tri pica] Africa, the others in 

 eastern tropical Asia. 



A. Leaves broad, width more than 4 times their length. 



1. A. extensus, Wall.; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 62 ii. (1893) 137. 



A strong climber. Leaves coriaceous, 

 obovate or broadly oblanceolate, secon- 

 dary nerves distinct, joined by intra- 

 marginal veins. Panicle repeatedly 

 dichotomous. Lobes of fruiting calyx 

 unequal, the larger l£-lf in. long. 



Lower Burma, Andaman*. Fl. C. S. 2. 

 A. Heyneanus, Wall.: Wight [o. t. 1987-88 

 USdrdor, Kardal, Mar.). Western Glials 

 from tin 1 Thann district southwards, in 



evergr i forest. Leaves elliptic lam I ite, 



s dary nerves not inure conspicuous than 



i lir reticulate reins between, panicle twice 

 dichotomous. Lobes of Fruiting calyx nar- 

 row, unequal, with distinct parallel nerves. 



B. Leaves narrow, 

 times t heir length, 



width less than I 



Kurz, 



:■!. A. Wallichii, Planch 

 K. H i. III. 



A large weedy climber with dork- 

 brown twisted stems, numerous Btrong 

 black booked tendrils on I be branch 



lets. 1 leaves Lanceolate and obit 



late, I 2 ft. long, midrib stout. Fl. 



Fio. 38. — Aucistrocladus extensus, 

 Wnll. i. 



