122 MALVACER. [ Vatiea. 
5. H. Griffithii, Kz.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 310.—A glabrous tree; 
leaves ovate, lanceolate, on a rather short but: slender petiole, acute 
at base, long and bluntish caudate-acuminate, coriaceous, somewhat 
glossy, and the midrib sharply prominent beneath, the 10-12 lateral 
nerves very faint and sometimes hardly visible ; flowers very small, 
almost sessile, in one-sided racemes, forming rather simple flexuose 
and slender glabrous panicles in ‘the axils of the leaves; calyx 
glabrous, the lobes broad, rounded and ciliate; petals velvety out- 
side, about. a line long; anthers short, terminated by a dark- 
coloured stiff bristle of the length of the anther itself or somewhat 
longer: 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
VATICA, L. 
Calyx-tube very short, adnate to the torus; the lobes manifestly 
imbricate. Stamens 15, the connective produced i m a sharp point 
shorter than the sill anther-cells. Ovary inserted with a broad 
, free, 3-celled ; style linear. Capsules Hes: coriaceous, iIrregu- 
larly dehiscent or dehiscing from the apex by 8 valves, one-seeded ; 
the calyx-tube unchanged, the lobes only slightly enlarged, equally 
long, and never reaching the length of the capsule itself.—Glabrous 
trees with entire leaves. Flowers fragrant, racemose in panicles. 
1. V. lanceefolia, Bl.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 302.—A middle-sized 
tree, the younger parts mealy-puberulous, soon glabrescent ; leaves 
lanceolate, acute at base, 5- ong, acuminate, glabrous, more 
or less glaucous beneath, shelrteicenn ; flowers rather large, white, 
shortly pedicelled, in racemes, formi ing axillary and terminal tawny 
ous panicles ;: calyx (and petals outside)’ tawny velvety, the 
obes ovate, acute ; capsule the size of a pigeon’s eee, supported by 
ie nearly equally enlarged calyx-lobes shorter than the calyx 
Hap.—Chittagong; Burma.—Fl. May; Fr. Jul-Aug. 
Remarxs.—Ghund of the Brahmins, a strong-smelling balsam, is the pro- 
duct of this tree : 
MALVACEZ. 
Flowers regular, Legare sais yao or unisexual. Bracteoles 3 or 
more, free or com , often forming a sort of calyx. Sepals 5, 
valvate, free or ania Petals 5, twisted-imbricate. Stamens 
_ humerous, rarely definite, adnate te the base of the petals; fila- 
ments united i in a tube or a column ; ors oblong or ein 
utimately 1-celled, the cells sinuous or twisted, bursting longitu- 
dinally. Ovary 2-many-celled, with 2 or more ovules in Foe cell 
— attached othe ner angle, entre o t lobed; orof ' 2-5:or more carpels 
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