610 POLYANDRIA: MONOGYNIA. Hopea. 
Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axills, droop- 
ing, composed of alternate, bifarious, secund, recurved, 
villous ramifications of numerous small, pale yellow, de- 
lightfully fragrant flowers. Bractes cordate, acute, vil- 
lous, caducous. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets unequal, 
ovate, . villous, permanent, the two largest increasing 
into two large oblong, obtuse, membranaceous wings, 
by. the time the pericarpium is full grown. Corol one- 
petalled, contorted. Tube short, campanulate.. Border 
of five oblique, sublinear, oblong, spreading divisions, 
with their margins revolute, curled, and somewhat vil- 
lous. Filaments ten, about as leng as the tube of the 
corol, and inserted by broad, conical, fleshy bases, into 
its bottom, alternately larger and bifid. Anthers fifteen, 
two-lobed, with a subulate point from the apex of each, 
or as in Asarum the anthers may be said to adhere to 
the filaments below their apices. Germ superior, ovate, — 
threc-celled ; cells three-seeded, attached to the top of the 
axis. Style straight, the length of the stamens. Stigma 
simple.. Capsule ovate, pointed, one-celled, evalvular, of 
a tender texture, closely enveloping a single seed of the 
same shape and. size, outwardly covered with the pe!- 
manent calyx, two of the leaflets of which are now 
enlarged into two linear oblong, obtuse, tough, mem- 
branaceous, nervous Witla, many times longer shane the 
seeds. 
The above described tree is nearly allied to my Shorea, 
as well as to the wood oil tree, Dipterocarpus of the Ma- 
lay Islands, Pegue and Chittagong... 1t. differs from the 
first in having only two of the five leaflets of the calyx i2- 
creasing into wings, in having a more. poelanes corol, and 
from Shorea in the stamina. 
Lam inclined to think Dammara alanis “Rumph. 
Hgts. Amb. vol, 2. p..168. t. 56, is of the same Ba- 
_ tural order, particularly. as in some parts of India, ver 
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