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XXV. DiPTEROCARPEiE. (W. T. Tliiselton Dyer.) [Shorea. 



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Stamens 20- oo. 



9. S. robusta, Gcertn. f. Frud. iii. 48, t. 186; leaves ovate-oblong 

 acuminate base cordate glabrous lateral nerves about 12 pairs, panicles 

 terminal or axillaiy lax, stamens 50. Moxh. FL Ind. ii. 615 ; Cor. Pi uu 

 312 ; Wall Cat. 965 ; A, DC. Frodr. xvi. 2, 628 ; Beddome FL Sylvat. t. 4 

 Vatica robusta, Steud. Nom. Ed, 2. 



Tropical Himalava, and along Jts base from Assam to the Sutlej. Eastern distncts 

 of Centkal I>'dia, Western Bengal hills. 



A very large tree, but often occmring in a stunted form. Leavei 6-10 by 4-6 m.; 

 petiole |-1 in.; stipules J in., falcate, pubescent. Panicles 5-9 in. long, clothed as 

 veil as the flowers with pale velvety pubescence, branches unilateral, racemose. 

 Flowers subsessile. Petals about { in. long, pale yellow, tapering upwards, ^12-13- 

 nerved. Anthers with a bearded appendage. Ovary pubescent ; stigma 3-denliculate. 

 Fruiting-calyx with the segments sometimeg subequal, bases ^ ii^-> ovate, pubescent; 

 wings 24 in., linear, obtuse, 10-nerved.— The Sal tree ; the wood is very generally used 

 in Bengal and it ranks next to teak ; the resin-dammer is extensively used as a sub- 

 stitute for pitch, 



10. S. obtusa, Wall Cat 966 ; leaves elliptic or obovate-oblong obtuse 

 base obtuse or emarginate pubescent on the nerves and in their axm 

 beneath lateral nerves about 15 pairs, panicles terminal, stamens 20-25. 

 Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 32, t 8 ; 4. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 629. S. leucobotrya, 

 Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. i. 215. Yatica obtusa, Ste^id. Nom. Ed. 2, 



Martaban, Wallich; Fzqv, JH'Clelland, &c.] Tenassekim, at Moulmein, -HeZ/er.— 

 DisTRiB. Siam. . . 



Leaves 4-6 by 1 J-3 in., often un^ymmetrical, glabrescent above, subrepand; petiole 

 i-f in. Panicles 2-4 in. long, clothed as well as the Howers with hoary pubescence, 

 racemose. Flowers subsessile. Pttah J-J in. long. Anthers with a bearded appea- 

 dage. Ovary pubescent. Banes of the segments of the frvitivg-calyx | in. long, rather 

 shorter than the pubescent capsule, ovate-oblong, pubescent; wings 24 by i m. unear- 

 oblanceolate, glabrescent, 9-nerved. y, 



11. S. serlcea, Dyer; leaves elliptic-oblong shortly acuminate scabrous 

 beneath^ lateral nerves about 20 pairs, panicles terminal, stamens 00, 

 anthers inappendiculate. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A very large damnier-producing tree (Mi 



intermi 



neath; petiole 4-| in. Pa 



1% m., poiislied above, lateral nerves very pi ^uit"-- . 

 nicies about 6 in. long, ultimate branches racemose, u 

 ids clothed with tawny silky hairs. Anthers with thej^ 



segmen 



^^«.... ^vvyutvA o-iuucu. ^' i uuing-cuLux wun immature accreBccui 



•n both surfaces with soft yellow down. 



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12. 8. Tumhussaia, Kozh. Hart Beng. 42; FLInd.il 617;Iea^J 

 ovate or oblong-cordifurm acuminate base truncate or emarginate &^^^ 



stamens 



about 30. 



6 30 : Beddome Flor. Sylvat (^en. ^ ^ 

 ,tica Tuinbuggaia, W. ilt A . Frodr. ^^ , 



^A^atica 



S. penicillata, A. DC, Lc. G30. 

 Wight Ic. t. 27. ' 



Western Penikscla; forests of Cudapah and Palghaut in Mysore, ^^'7^^' ^' tiote 

 A gigantic dammer-producing tree. Leaves 24-8 by 14-4^ in. (-^^^'"^^iiLlled; 

 1^2 in. Famcles 8 in long, hoary or nearly glabrous. Flowers sboriJy pea* j^^^ 

 buds densely hoary. ^«<Am with a hairy appendage. >6'iiV^a 3-lobuiate. ^^f^/^w, 

 long, oyoid, acuminate, pubescent above ; bases of fruiting calyx-segments 4 ^n. ^^ 

 ovate, hoary: win?a U-l? >iv 1 I'n oT.afL„L.f^ 7^.^,.m^ q_i n.nArvfid. — There can 



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