Descriptions of Malayan Plants. SI 3 



pale and somewhat transparent. Stamina twenty, much 

 longer than the corolla. Nectarial ring crenate on the mar- 

 gin by the compression of the filaments which are inserted 

 round it. Ovary 5 — 6 celled, each cell containing two ovula. 

 Style a little longer than the stamina. Stigma capitate. 

 Capsule ovate, pointed, smooth, 5 — 6 celled, 5—6 valved, mar- 

 gins of the valves introflexed. Seeds two in each cell, 

 attached by their middle to the inner edge of the valvular 

 partitions, oblong, membranaceous at both ends, bifid at 

 the lower. 



XXXIL DIPTEROCARPEiE. 



DRYOBALANOPS. Gcertn. 

 Monadelphia Polyandria, 

 Calyx monophyllus, quinquepartitus, laciniislineari-lanceo- 

 latis, patentibus. Corolla pentapetala, petalis basi junctis 

 ovato-lanceolatis, calyce longioribus. Stamina plurima, mo- 

 nadelpha, hypogyna, longitudine fere calycis, conniventia ; 

 filamenta in annulum brevum coalita ; antherse supra tubum 

 filamentorum subsessiles, longae, lineares, acutee, mucrone 

 membranaceo, biloculares. Ovarium ovatum, stylo acumina- 

 tum, superum, triloculare, loculis disporis. Stylus fiUformis, 

 staminibus longior. Stigma capitatum. Capsula calyci gran- 

 defacto insidens et cincta laciniis ejusdem in alas spatulatas 

 foliaceas erecto-patentes mutatis, unilocularis, trivalvis, mo- 

 nosperma. Semen embryone exalbuminoso, inverso, cotyle- 

 donibus inequalibus, chrysaloideo-contortuplicatis. 



DRYOBALANOPS CAMPHORA. Coleh, 

 Kapur Barus. Malay, 



Specimens in flower were sent by Mr. Prince, from Tapa- 

 nooly, to Sir T. S. Raffles, in 1819, from which the above 



