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glabrous within. Petals dark-red within. Flowers said to have a rather 
siekeningly sweet odor. Petals prominently longitudinally veined. 
Filaments black between the oblong anthers. Appendage to the con- 
nective tapering and shorter than the anther. Ovary bluntly conical in 
outline^ hairy. No stylopodimn. Style smooth; stigma small and ob- 
scurely lobed. 
One of the most important of our timber ti-ees. The wood is very 
pretty^ coarse-grained and moderately hard. It is sometimes exported 
under the name of "Philippine ^lahogany.'' This tree is most abundant 
in the northern part of the Island of Negros, where it occurs gregariously 
with almon^ halachacan and hagtican. It is, perhaps, the most important 
commercial wood of the Philippines at the present time. 
The leaves of this species show close resemblances to those of S, lepidota 
Bl, of Sumatra, S. seJanica Bl., of Amboina, and 8. platycarpa Heim, of 
Sarawak. 
For. Bur, 7281 Everett, collected in Negros Occidental in May 1907, is the type. 
Luzon, Province of Ca^yan, For. Bur. 6^,98 Klem-me, For, Bur. 11110 Curran: 
Province of.Isabela, For. Bur. 66U Klemme: Province of La Laguna, For. Bur. 
^311 Mariano: Province of Tayabas, Merrill 1152 Garcia: Province of Aibay, 
For. Bur. 10620 Curran: Province of Sorsogon, Fo^: Bur. 10601 Curran. Negbos, 
Province of Negros Occidental, For. Bur. 1281 Everett, May 1907, in flower (type), 
For. Bur. 5209, 5500 Everett, For. Bur. 5212, im Danao, For, Bur. 125S Everett, 
. May 1907, in bud, For. Bur. 13583 Meyer d Foanvorthy, For. Bur. 11W, 11^69, 
11410, II4SO, 11-m, 11491, 11491 Currayi. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, For. 
Bur. 6612 Stone, For, Bxir. 1566 Hutchinson: Subprovince of Agusan, For. Bur. 
1596, 1598, 1610 Euichinson. 
Common names: red lauan, mangacJiapuij (V.). 
For description of habit of this species see \Wniiord in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 
10= (1911) 66, pis. 6'i, 65. 
8. Shopea squamata (Turcz.) Dyer ex Vidal Rev. Pi. Vase. Filip. (1886) 62; 
Brandis in Journ. Linn. See. Bot. 31 (1895) 9^; Merr. in Phil. Journ. Sci. Z 
(1907) Bot. 285; Foxworthy in Phil. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 386; Phil. Journ. 
Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 519; Merritt in Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 8 (1908) 16. 48; 
Whitford in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot, 715, Philip. Bur. For. Bull. 10 
(1911) GQ,pl63. ^^ ^ , 
Sopea squamata Turcz. in Bull- Soc. Mosc. 31 > (1858) 239; A. DO. Prodr. 
16=^ (1868) 635. 
Leaves coriaceous or chartaeeous, from a rounded base ovate-oblong or 
elliptic, upper side glabrous, under side rough with tufts of stellate hair; 
secondary nerves M to 18, curved, tertiary veins parallel; blade 10 to 20 
cm long, petiole 2 cm long. Flowers bibracteolate in unilateral spikes, 
these distichous, in long axillary and terminal panicles, bracts ob ong 
spathuiate. Filaments of the 5 inner episepalous stamens with a thick 
rounded base, upon which the next 5 filaments are inserted; appendage 
of connective slightly longer than anther. Stylopodium smaller than 
■ ovary; style glabrous, twice the length of stylopodium; stigma minute. 
Larger segments of frui ting-calyx 15 to 17.5 em long. 
