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The resin is procured by cutting a notch in the tree, sloping inwards, 
and downwards. On the Malabar Coast it is made into candles, 
which give a fine clear light, and diffuse an agreeable fragrance. 
(2) V. zancemroua. (Roxb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 601.—Wight’s Il. I. p. 88. 
Spec. Cuar. Tree: leaves lanceolate, entire: panicles axil.« 
lary: calyx segments ovate, acute, much increased as the seeds 
ripen : petals linear-faleate, obtuse, with their concave bases placed 
closely together, and forming a kind of tube round the ovary and 
stamens: filaments produced beyond the anther-cells, and termi- 
nating in an ovate, acute, coloured, glandular point : stigma clavate; 
3-toothed : flowers largish, white, fragrant. 
Silhet and Chittagong, flowering in May. Wight alludes to 
another species, V. Roxburghiana, of which he gives no description, 
GENUS I. VATICA. 
Polyandria Monogynia. Sez: Syst: 
Gen. Cuar, Trees, with entire leaves: sepals 5, afterwards en+ 
larging into 5 long wings: petals 5: filament produced beyond the 
anther-cells into a long coloured bristle: ovary 3-celled, with 2 
pendulous ovules in each cell: seed solitary. 
(1) V. uaccirera. (W. § A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 84. 
Syn. Shorea Talura, Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 618.—S. laccifera, 
Heyne.—S. robusta, Roth. (not Roxb.) 
Engrdv. Wight’s Icon. I. t. 164, 
Spzc. Cuar. Tree: leaves oblong, obtuse, often emarginate at 
the base: stamens 15; anther-bristle very long: panicles numerous, 
springing from the axils of the fallen leaves: flowers yellow, 
Nundidroog and Palghaut Mountains. 
(2) V. Tumsveata. CW. & A.) 
Hdent. W.& A. prod. I. p. 84. 
Syn. Shorea Tumbugaia, Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 617. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. I. t. 27. 
Spec. Cuan. Large tree: leaves ovate-cordate, long-petioled : 
stamens about 100, with bearded anthers: panicles terminal : 
flowers yellow. 
Palghaut Mountains, 
