?Caryolobis indica
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Taxonomy
Gaertner based this genus on a fruit in the Leyden Botanical Institute, said to have come from Ceylon, with the vernacular name berelie. It was mostly reduced to the genus Doona Thw., possibly in part due to the fact that a common name for Doona in Ceylon is beraliya dun. Unfortunately its type could not be traced in the Leiden carpologica.
The fruit figured seems not to agree with that of Shorea sect. Doona, for this is characterized by the extremely unequal cotyledons, one of which is minute and acicular, whereas the picture shows two equal cotyledons. The description is too poor, and in absence of type material unidentifiable in Dipterocarpaceae.
The fruit figured seems not to agree with that of Shorea sect. Doona, for this is characterized by the extremely unequal cotyledons, one of which is minute and acicular, whereas the picture shows two equal cotyledons. The description is too poor, and in absence of type material unidentifiable in Dipterocarpaceae.