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Ovary with a long bell-shaped fleshy stylopodium, both slightly 
puberulous; style short. These characters would place this 
species under Eushorea. But A. L. Broun, the Conservator of 
Forests in Ceylon, has sent me a sketch of the fruit, with short 
wings, which places it under section Brachyptera. It is, however, 
an anomalous species of this section. 
2. SHoREA THISELTONI, King in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. lxii. 
pars 2 (1893), 122.— P]. II. figs. 13, 14. 
Perak ; common. 
Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic-oblong; upperside, when 
dry, of a dull grey, underside of a copper-colour. Anthers 
nearly orbicular, on long much dilated filaments, the 5 inner 
longer than the 10 outer. Connective thick, continued into a 
short acute appendix, that of the 5 inner stamens very short or 
wanting. Ovary narrowed into short hairy stylopodium ; base 
of ovary and filiform style glabrous. 
S. Forbesii, King, MSS., Sumatra (Forbes, 2815, 2952), has 
the same structure of flowers, the only difference being that the 
bracts seem to remain alittle longer. I regard it as a variety 
of S. Thiseltoni. 
The remaining 5 species of this section are all natives of Borneo ; 
they have all 15 stamens, with a long filiform appendage of con- 
nective. 
3. S. BRACHYPTERA, Heim in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. (1891 
957.— Pachychlamys Beccarianus, Dyer, MSS. 
Borneo (Beccari, 2681, 3075, 3507). . 
Stamens 15, adhering to the base of the petals; 5 of the wa 
circle on longer filaments than the 10 outer ones, 5 of which are, 
as usual, opposite to the 5 inner stamens. Heim states: étamines 
15 (5 episépales, 10 epipétales). This would make the pairs of 
stamens (one inner and one outer) epipetal, which is the opposite 
of what is found in all species of this order with 15 stamens. 
The materials at my disposal have not enabled me to settle this 
question. Ovary hairy, narrowed into glabrous filiform style ; 
stylopodium not conspicuous. Of the two cotyledons the anterior 
only bifid, the posterior emarginate (Heim). Fruit ovoid, velvety, 
1 in. diam. 
