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than leaf, the branches at right angles to the rachis, regularly 
alternating and distichous, consisting of unilateral 3-4-flowered 
racemes. Fl. 4 in. long; calyx glabrous, segments acute, unequal. 
Ovary gradually narrowed into a conieal stylopodium aud long 
cylindrical style. Larger segments of fruiting-calyx oblanceolate, 
subfaleate, acute, 7-9-nerved. 
Hopea modesta, A. DC., is classed as a small-leaved variety by 
Dyer and Trimen. I wish to draw attention to the following 
characters, which at first sight seem to justify its separation 
from H. jucunda. Panicles twice the length of leaf, rachis 
and branches filiform ; branches forming an acute angle with 
rachis, each bearing 1-3 flowers which are less than half the 
size of H. jucunda. There is, however, a form of H. jucunda 
(C. P., 3710) which as regards size and nervation of leaves holds 
the middle between it and H. modesta. The fruit of H. modesta 
does not seem to be known. Until the trees have been thoroughly 
studied on the spot, and until fruit and seed of both have been 
compared, it is convenient to maintain the present arrangement. 
3. Horra (?) CORDIFOLIA, Zrimen, Fl. Ceylon, i. 126. 
Leaves very similar to those of Balanocarpus zeylanicus, 
Trimen. 
B. Western Peninsula. 
4. H. PARVIFLORA, Bedd. Forest Report, 1863-4, cum tab., et 
Fl. Sylv. t.7 (errore t. 6); Dyer in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 
308.—H. decandra, Buchanan, MS.—Pl. II. fig. 7. 
Moist forests of the Western Ghats, from South Canara to 
Tinevelly. The “ Ironwood of Malabar” Bovumara, Canara, 
Buchanan ; “ Nirkongu," Tinevelly, Beddome. 
Flowers small, on very short pedicels, each subtended by 2 
bractlets, in unilateral racemes, these distichous and regularly 
alternating. Calyx and branches of inflorescence grey, tomen- 
tose; the 2 outer sepals much larger than the others. Petals 
entirely glabrous, erose at apex. Anthers small, orbicular. 
Ovary, stylopodium, and style glabrous; stigma 3-fid (fig. 7). 
Stylopodium ovoid, constricted at base. 
5. H. WIGHTIANA, Wall. List (1828), n. 6295; Dyer in Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 309; Wight, Ill. t. 37. 
Moist forests at the foot of the Western Ghats, from North 
Cavara to Quilon. Often gregarious, large tracts in the plains 
of South Canara stocked with it. 
Flowers large, 3 in. long, shortly pedicellate, each in the axil of 
