Hopea. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 609 
HOPEA. R. 
Gen. Cnar. Calyx five-leaved, two of them increas- 
ing with the capsule into wings. Corol one-petalled, con- 
torted, Filaments ten, inserted on the tube of the corol, 
alternately two-cleft. Anthers fifteen. Germ superior, 
three-celled ; cells two-seeded; attachment superior. Cap- 
sule one-celled, one-valved. Seed solitary. Embryo in- 
verse, without perisperm. 
- The great affinity of this genus to Shorea and Dip- 
terocarpus induced me. to place it here, rather than in 
Dodecandria, where it formerly stood. It is so named 
in memory of the late Dr. John Hope, professor of Botany 
in Edinburgh. The genus formerly so called is now referred 
to Symplocos, and Vahl’s Hopea, En. pl. 1. 3. is my Pla- 
' dera pusilla. Exam. sessile Willd. 1. 636. 
1. H. odorata. R. 
' Leaves ovate-oblong, a hollow gland in the axills of 
the large veins. 
A single tree, and the only I have seen, grows in the 
garden of Mr. Dowdeswell near Calcutta. Its native 
place, the mountains to the eastward of Bengal. Flow- 
ering time the month of March. The seed ripens in thd 
and June. 
Trunk of the above-mentioned single tree atrigine Sar 
feet in circumference, and hizh in proportion. Branches 
numerous, spreading in every direction, and adorned 
with many long, slender, drooping, expanding, bifarious 
branchlets, covered with dark brown, smooth — bark. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, drooping, 
ovate-oblong, entire, waved, smooth, shining, of a deep 
green on both sides, having often on the under side a 
pretty large single gland in the axills of the large veins. : 
Stipules subulate, falling off at a very early perio 
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