OF THE DIPTEROCARPACER. 79 
Sect. II. EUSHOREA. 
Fruiting-calyx with 3 long wings; stamens 20-60; appendage 
of connective ciliate, rarely not ciliate and then thickened at 
base. Stylopodium large, hairy as well as ovary; style short, 
glabrous; stigma minute. Flowers nearly in all species in uni- 
lateral spikes or racemes, these distichous and regularly alter- 
nating. Cortical leaf-traces in many, but not in all, species 
shorter than internodium. 
A. Ceylon. 
8. SHOREA OBLONGIFOLIA, Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. (1859) 36; 
Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, i. 116. 
Spikes unilateral, distichous ; appendage of connective short, 
with 3 long bristles. Stylopodium as large as ovary, both densely 
tomentose. 
9. S. Dyzntr, Thw. ex Trimen in [London] Journ. Bot. xxii. 
(1885) 204; Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, i. 117. 
Spikes unilateral, distichous; appendage of connective half 
the length of anther, or shorter, strongly ciliated ; apex of anther 
also ciliated. 
The following two species, of which the flowers are unknown, 
either belong to this section or to Anthoshorea. The fruiting- 
calyx has 3 long wings; and neither Pinanga nor Mutica extend 
so far westward. 
10. S. RETICULATA, Dyer in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. (1872) 
307; Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, i. 117 ; Thw. MS. fide Dyer. 
11. S. STIPULARIS, Thu. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. (1859) 36 ; Trimen, 
Fl. Ceylon, i. 118. 
B. Western Peninsula. 
12. S. rosusta, Gaertn. f. Fruct. ii. (1805) 48, t. 186 ; 
Dyer in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 806; Brandis, For. Fl. 26, 
t. 9. 
The Sál-tree has two large areas of distribution—at the foot of 
the Himalaya from lat. 32? in the Kangra district of the Punjab 
to long. 93° in the Tezpur district of Assam, and on the hills of 
Eastern Central India as far west as the Pachmarhi hills, ex- 
tending south to near the Godavery river. u 
Flowers in unilateral racemes, these arranged distichously. 
