Hopea. POLYANDRIA MONOGVNIA. 609 



HOPE A. R. 



Gen. Char. Calyx five-leaved, two of them increas- 

 ing with the capsule into wings. Coro/ one-petalled, con- 

 torted. Filaments ten, inserted on the tube of the corol, 

 alternately two-cleft. Anthers fifteen. Germ superior, 

 three-celled; ce//s two-seeded ; attachment superior. Cap- 

 sule one-celled, one-valved. Seed solitary. Embryo in- 

 verse, without perisperm. 



The great afiinity 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 VakVs Hopea, En. pi. 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 May 

 and June. 



Trunk of the above-mentioned single tree straight, four 

 feet in circumference, and high 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 ofl^ at a very early period. 



