110 SIR DIETRICH BRANDIS—AN ENUMERATION 
parallel, prominent. Flowers sessile, in short unilateral spikes, 
which are irregularly paniculate. Ovary glabrous; stylopodium 
cylindric, glabrous; style long, filiform ; stigma indistinctly 
8-dentate. Fruit tomentose, 11-12 in. long; thickened sepals 
and pericarp woody, the two outer fruiting-sepals larger. Both 
cotyledons are bifid to their base, that is to the point where 
they are attached to the hypocotyl, which is nearly as long as 
the embryo. The testa loosely envelops the embryo, and is 
generally partly torn when the seed is taken out from the fruit. 
In a fold of the testa and between the two lobes of the posterior 
cotyledon lies the lignified placenta, to which traces of the 
dissepiments are attached. A similar structure may be observed 
in the seeds of Balanocarpus Curtisi and coriaceus. 
King justly calls this an anomalous species of Balanocarpus, 
and draws attention to its similarity to several species of Shorea, 
such as S. eximia (furfuracea) and leprosula. The latter, how- 
ever, has exappendiculate anthers, and the former has no distinct 
stylopodium. The prominent parallel tertiary nerves are more 
common in Shorea than in Balanocarpus, and the section to 
which this species would most nearly approximate would be 
Brachyptera, with short segments of fruiting-calyx. But the 
woody pericarp and the loose membranous testa place this 
species in Balanocarpus. 
7. BALANOCARPUS MAXIMUS, King in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 
lxii. pars 2 (1893), 133. 
Perak. 
Leaves elliptie-lanceolate ; secondary nerves 8-10 pairs, arch- 
ing; tertiary parallel and reticulate. Flowers in short unilateral 
racemes, which are irregularly paniculate. Stamens 10; fila- 
ments three to four times the length of anther, dilated at base. 
Stylopodium hairy, articulate with ovary; style long, filiform, 
glabrous. Ovary glabrons, with a hairy ring at top. Fruit 
cylindrical, 23 in. long, slightly velutinous, with numerous raised 
longitudinal lines. 
8. B. Herm, King in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. lxii. pars 2 
(1893), 183.—Pierrea penangiana, Heim MSS. in herb. Kew. 
Penang; Perak. 
Cortical leaf-traces run through the entire internodium and 
beyond it; hence branchlets angular. Leaves elliptic-oblong ; 
secondary nerves 8-10 pairs, prominent beneath ; tertiary parallel 
