VATICA ROXBTJRGHIANA. (Nat. ord. Dipterocarpeas.) 



V ATICA. Linn. — GEN. CHAR. Tube of the calyx very Email adnate to the torus or base of the ovary, not or scarcely enlarging when j & 

 Iruit ; divisions rather acute, when very young imbricate but soon open or pseudo-valvate, enlarging with the fruit, equal or unequal and patent. Stamem 

 35, anthers oblong Or linear rarely ovate, connective generally with a short apiculation, ovary 3 celled, cells 2 ovuled, style short with a clavate apex, or Ion" 

 subulate, Btigma entire or 3 toothed, capsule thick woody indehiscent, or 3 valved 1-2 seeded. Trees, bearing resin, stipules small fugacious or inconspicu- 

 ous, leaves entire coriaceous penniveined and retieulato-venose, flowers in axillary or terminal panicles. 



See. I. Isauxis. — Enlarged divisions of the calyx equal, patent below the fruit. 



See. II. Euvatica. — Enlarged divisions of the calyx very unequal wing like, patent below the fruit. 



The 2 Southern Indian species both belong to Isauxis. 



V ATICA xvOXBURGHIANA. (Wight.) A large tree, young branches petioles and inflorescence minutely furfuraceous 9 

 leaves glabrous above except the costa, which with the costa and veins beneath is slightly scaly, ovate to oblong with an~obtuse point 

 rounded or obtuse at the base, furnished with 10-14 primary veins on each side, 4-8 inches long by 2-3J broad, petiole \\-2 inches 

 long, panicles axillary shorter thau the leaves, branchlets few flowered, calyx and outside of petals furfuraceous, divisions of the former 

 acute enlarging in fruit and then 5 nerved and glabrescent, petals & times as long as the calyx, stamens 15 in 2 rows, anthers oblong 

 with a short apiculation, style nearly double the length of the anthers, stigma clavate obscurely 3 or 6 lobed. fruit ^lobose not 

 sulcated crowned with a small nipple-like point at the apex, rough with minute raised reticulations aud furfuraceous, hard woody and 

 indehiscent. Wight III. p. S%. !/%&£&'-', JUm-jasQlLj iS? ^Cu^-.d^-, s{/^~ J, £<£, fy$ ^ [£ g fo~ 



Common in some of our western coast forests, 'particularly in the South Canara jungles, and planted in avenues, etc. in Travancore. 

 also indigenous in Ceylon, whirt it is called Mtndora ; its limber is much valued in Ceylon, but I have not seen it in use in India ■ the trst 

 produces a gum-resin. 





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