OF THE DIPTEROCARPACEÆ. 111 
and reticulate. Flowers unknown. Fruit glabrous, obscurely 
striate. Radicle short, outside between the two lobes of the 
outer cotyledon. 
9. Batanocarpus WRAYI, King in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 
lxii. pars 2 (1893), 134. 
Leaves elliptic-lanceolate; secondary nerves 7-8 pairs ; tertiary 
parallel and reticulate, obscure. Fruit glabrous. Outer sepals 
of fruiting-calyx smaller than inner. 
10. B. Currist1, King in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, lxii. 
pars 2 (1893), 131.—PI. II. fig. 24. 
Penang; Perak: fl. Sept., fr. August. 
A very pretty small tree, 20-30 ft. high, with glossy bright 
green leaves. Secondary and shorter intermediate nerves nume- 
rous, indistinct; tertiary nerves obscure. Flowers distant, in 
unilateral racemes, each flower supported by two linear-lanceolate 
semipersistent ciliate bracts; racemes arranged in lax com- 
pound panicles with spreading filiform branches, the lowest 
flower of a raceme often so near the base as to appear terminal. 
Stamens 15, the filaments of the inner 5 longer than the 
anthers. Ovary, stylopodium, and style glabrous; stylopodium 
short, broad from a narrow base; style short; stigma minute. 
Fruit globose, apiculate, glabrous, with numerous raised longi- 
tudinal lines, entirely enveloped by the slightly thickened sepals, 
which are as long as the fruit, and of which the two inner are a 
little larger than the two outer ones. Both cotyledons bifid, 
attached to the hypocotyl, which, with the short petioles, is 
nearly as long as the embryo. Cotyledons filled with starch. 
Outer cotyledon slightly concave, embracing the inner, hypocotyl 
not on the outside but in the axis of the embryo.  Lignified 
placenta and remains of dissepiments intruding between the 
lobes of the inner cotyledon, tightly enclosed in a fold of the 
testa which loosely envelops the seed. 
To this species I refer Hopea bracteata, Burck (Borneo, leg. 
Teysmann), as well as Haviland’s nn. 1045 and 2225 (Kuching, 
Borneo, Feb. 1893), all in flower only. The structure of the flowers 
is identical with B. Curtisii, but there is a difficulty in regard to 
the colour of the flowers. Haviland, no. 1045, says : flowers pale ; 
and no. 2225: petals pale red at the base internally; whereas 
Dr. King's collector (Perak) states: “flowers very dark blue, 
almost black, buds have a light blue tip." In the Borneo speci- 
