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8. Vatica Dyeri, King, u. sp. A tree 80 to 130 feet high ! young 
brandies, panicles, and calyx on both surfaces densely rufous-noc- 
culent-tomentose, with stellate hairs intermixed, the branches ulti- 
mately glabrous and their bark pale. Leaves membranous, usually 
broadly elliptic, rarely elliptic-oblong, sub-acute or very shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, the base rounded, both surfaces quite glabrous, 
finely reticulate : main nerves 11 to 13 pairs, spreading, rather promi- 
nent beneath : length 3*5 to 7 in., breadth L*6 to 3 in. ; petiole -35 to 
■5 in., flocculent-tomentose. Panicles axillary or terminal, cymose, 1*5 
to 3 in. long. Flowers '4> in long. Calyx lobes unequal, the two larger 
obloug and obtuse ; the three smaller lanceolate, acuminate. Petals 
broadly elliptic, very obtuse, slightly narrowed to the truncate base, 
much larger than the calyx-lobes, glabrous, except one of the outside 
edges which is adpressed-pubeacent. Stamens short, unequal-sided, 
bluntly apiculate Ovary depressed-pubescent, the stigma capitate. 
Jl-ifto fruit conical, the two large accrescent calyx-wings narrowly oblan- 
ceol ate- oblong, blunt, 5-nerved, 125 in. long and '25 in. broad ; the three 
smaller wings one-fourth of the size of the larger, lanceolate, obscurely 
5-nerved. Synaptea Dyeri^ Pierre ¥1. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 241. 
Perak ; King's Collector, No. 7C62. Distrib., Cambodia, Lower 
Cochin -China, Pierre. 
The Perak specimens are not in fruit: but in flowers and leaves 
they agree with Pierre's specimens from Cambodia and Cochin-China. 
9. Vatica reticulata, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : all 
parts except the inflorescence glabrous ; young branches slender, dark- 
coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, tapering from 
the middle to each end ; the apex bluntly acuminate, the base very 
cuncate and slightly unequal-sided, the edges sub-undulate ; both sur- 
faces finely reticulate when dry, the lower paler ; main nerves 8 or 9 
pah's, little more prominent than the secondary; length 25 to 3'5 
in., breadth 1 to 1"25 in., petiole "4 in. Panicles axillary or terminal, 
puberulous, 2 5 to 3*5 in. long, lax, few-flowered. Floivers on long 
pedicels. Calyx-lobes unequal, lanceolate, more or less obtuse, densely 
pubescent on both surfaces. Ovary hemispherical, ridged, densely 
tomentose ; style short, glabrous; stigma minute. Young fruit sub- 
globular ; fruiting calyx with 2 accrescent linear-oblong wings, the 
other smaller ; all attached to the lower part of the fruit. 
Perak : King's Collector, No. 6969. 
The only specimens which I have seen of this are without corolla, 
stamenH, or ripe fruit. The species is, however, a very distinct one, 
and it is an unmistakeable Vatica. I have therefore ventured to name 
it in spite of the imperfection of the material, 
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