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the shortly ovate anthers ; apical connectival appendage deflexed, 
curved, longer than the anther. Ovary elongated-conic, tomentose, 
tapering into the sparsely puberulous Btyle ; stigma small. Ripe fruit 
narrowly ovoid, apieulate, pale brownish. tomenfofie, 1'25 to 1*5 in, long, 
and *75 to 1 in. in diam. Persistent sepals nearly equal, their bases 
thickened, woody, pubescent, and concave, forming an irregularly 5-toothed 
c*ap which embraces the lower hulf of the fruit. Shorea Memaleyana y 
King MSS. in Herb. Calc. 
Penang^ Curtis, No, 2512. Perak : King's Collector, Nbs. 5431, 
6670, and 7562. Scortechini, No. 1653. 
This is an altogether anomalous species. It has leaves like 
several of the scabrid species of Shorea, such as S. eximia and 8. 
lepromin. Its flowers are also more like those of Shorea than Balauo- 
carpus ; but its fruit is essentially that of Ihe latter genus, in which, 
not without hesitation, I include it. 
10. Pachynocaeptjs, Hook. fil. 
Resinous trees with the leaves and flowers of Vatica f but with 
sometimes only ten stamens. Fruit ovoid -globose, umbonate at the apex, 
1-celled, 1 -seeded, the pericarp densely coriaceous, splitting vertically. 
Calyx with five equal segments, at first almost free from the fruit, but 
the tube gradually accrescent, much thickened ami iidnate to the fruit, 
and finally embracing the whole of it except the apex. Seed pendulous, 
testa thin and adherent to the endocarp, cotyledons very thick and fleshy. 
Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, sub-acute or 
shortly and obtusely acuminate... ... 1. P. Wallichii. 
Leaves broadly-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, the 
apex very blunt ... ... 2. P. Stapfianus, 
Dr. Burck (in Ann, Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg) expands the definition of tho genua 
Yatica bo as to include not only the closely allied Synaptea, but also the genera 
Isauzis W. A , Retinodendron, Korth., and Packynocarpus Hook fil. To tho union 
of Synaptea with Vatica I see no objection ; for the whole difference between the two 
{as I have Btated in a note under Vatica) consists in perfect freedom of the fruit 
in Vatica from the enlarged calyx, whereas in Synaptea there is a slight '■ adhesion to 
the calyx at the very base- But for the inclusion of Pachynocarinit, I see no sufficient 
justification ; for in thia genns the calyx does not expand into membranous wings, but 
forms a dense fibro-cartilaginous cover for the fruit, which it tightly embraces, and 
to which it is quite adnate. As regards Itauxis and Reti-nodendron t they appear 
to me to be undiBtinguishablo from each other by any but trivial marks, but they 
differ sufficiently in calyx from Vatica to be treated as a genus under the older 
namo Retinodendron. 
1. Pachtnocarptjs Wallichii, King. A tree 40 to 70 feet high : 
young branches deciduously scurfy-pnberulous, their bark pale-brown, 
sparsely lenticelJate, Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 
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