STEMONOPORUS GARDNER! (Nat. ord. Dipterocarpese.) 



STEMONOPORUS. Thiv.— GEN. CHAR. Calyx 5 parted, divisions equal riot enlarging in fruit, petals 5 equal, activation convolute, sta- 

 mens 15 in 2 series, 5 interior and 10 exterior, monadelphous on a short ring round the base of the ovary, anthers oblong introrse dehiscing by a pore at 

 the apex, connective not produced beyond the anther, ovary 3 celled, cells 2 ovuled, ovules pendulous from the apex] of the axis anatropal, style 81iform, 

 stigma simple, fruit spherical f-1 inch in diameter with the calyx reflexed beneath it, 1 celled by abortion, irregularly dehiscing, testa membranaceous, 

 embryo exalbuminous, cotyledons thick plicato-convolute. Trees like Vateria, but differing in their fewer anthers arranged only in 2 series. Thio. Boo?;. 

 Journ. of Bot. Vol. vi. p. 3. Vateria (in part) Benth. and Bool: Oen, PI. p. 194. Vatica (in part) DO. Prod. xvi. p. 620. 



STEMONOPORDS GtARDNERI. (Thw.) A large forest tree, leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate acuminate, rounded at the 

 base or subcordate, prominently veined beneath, 3J-6 inches long by 1 J-2£ broad, petioles about 1 inch long, panicles slightly hoary 

 numerous at the apex of the branchlets, more or less elongate 4-12 flowered, pedicels 34 lines long, flowers about f inch across in 

 expansion. Thw. I. c. and En. PI. Zey. p. 38. 



Ceylon, in the Central Provinces at about 5,000 feet elevation. 



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