76 SIR DIETRICH BRANDIS—AN ENUMERATION 
species, and extends from Ceylon and the Western Peninsula to 
New Guinea. Its greatest development Shorea has attained in 
the Eastern Peninsula of India with 87, in Borneo and the 
neighbouring islands of the Indian Archipelago with 35 species. 
As a rule the species inhabit a comparatively circumscribed 
area; among those of wider distribution may be mentioned the 
following :— 
Shorea Balangeran, Burck : Bangka, Borneo, Philippine Islands. 
S. squamata, Benth. et Hook.: Borneo, Philippine Islands. 
S. furfuracea, Miq. : Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka and 
other islands, Philippine Islands. 
Besides the small genera Pentacme, Parashorea, and Isoptera, 
Balanocarpus is closely allied to Shorea. Several characters, upon 
which we rely most in the classification of this order, are subject 
to great variation in this genus. Irefer to the number of stamens, 
the shape of the anthers, the appendage of the connective, the 
style and stylopodium, and the conformation of the fruiting-calyx. 
Nevertheless the genus is well defined, and though it might be 
possible to establish some of the sections as distinct genera, it is 
more convenient at present to maintain Shorea undivided. These 
views may, however, become modified as new species are discovered, 
and as the anatomical structure and the structure of the seed of 
a larger number of species are studied. 
Sect. I. Bracnyprera, Heim, Recherches, p. 46. 
Spikes or racemes, generally not distinctly unilateral. Seg- 
ments of fruiting-calyx shorter than twice the length of fruit. 
Stamens generally 15 ; appendage of connective in most species 
long, filiform. Stigma minute. As far as can be seen on the 
outside of herbarium specimens, and without actual anatomical 
examination, the cortical leaf-traces run through the entire length 
of the internode. 
1. SHOREA LISSOPHYLLA, Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. (1864) 402; 
Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, iii. 117. 
Rare in the moist low country of the southern division of 
Ceylon. 
Stamens 30-40 ; anthers elliptic, cells unequal, the outer larger 
cells pointed at base; appendix of connective short, with a number 
of long cili ; anthers also ciliate at apex; filaments long, broad. 
