102 dipterocarpk.t: of new guinea. 



Shorea sublaciuiosa, Sclieff. I have identified with this species, 

 which is therefore additional to the Flora of British India, a plant 

 collected by Wallich at Singapore, in 1822, and labelled DiUeniacear. 

 ordinis^ nervusa, Wall. Cat., 6635. To it must also be referred 

 some hitherto indeterminate specimens from Griffith's collections 

 fomid by him at Ayer Punnns. They are 5018 and 5019 in the 

 Kew distribution. This species is remarkable for the conversion of 

 its leaf-buds into most singular cone-like galls. 



I have already pointed out '■' the identity of Parinarium dilleni- 

 fuliiim, E. Br., with Jyipterocarpiis cornutus, Dyer. There is, how- 

 ever, under the same number (7520), in the Wallichian Herbarium, 

 two sheets of another plant with the manuscript name Parinarium 

 Wallichianujn, collected by Wallich himself at Singapore, in 1822, 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, in the forthcoming part of the ' Flora of 

 British India,' has referred this to Dipterocarpiis, but its distinct 

 stipules removes it from that genus. I cannot suggest any other 

 position for it unless it be a new Shorea. But the presence of 

 some bodies like glands on the petiole makes its Dipterocarpeous 

 affinity very doubtful, and I am disposed to think that it belongs to 

 ChrysohalanecB. I add a brief description, in the hopes that some 

 botanist may attempt to re-discover the plant, and get more infor- 

 mation about it. 



Arbor incertse sedis, novellis compressis petiohsque indumento 

 contexto j)^lli^^o dense vestitis demum glabrescentibus ; foliis 

 oblongo-ellipticis, obtuse apiculatis, basi rotundatis, chartaceis ; 

 pagina superiore fere l^vi, glaberrima, nitida ; inferiore indumento 

 membranaceo candidissimo dense vestita, costa media, nervisque 

 lateralibus ad 30 patentibus, fortiter prominentibus ; stipulis 

 linearibus, acutis, membranaceis, caducis, externe canescentibus ; 

 petiolo brevi glandulis quibusdam facie superiore munito; 

 floribus 



Singapore, Wall. Oat., sub 7520. 



Folia 7-14 poll, longa, 3-6 poll, lata ; petiolo ^ poll, longo. 



Sir Joseph Hooker has enumerated in the ' Linnean Trans- 

 actions '* some indeterminate Dipterocarpecb collected in Borneo by 

 Low and Motley. I have been able to clear up some of these, and 

 it may be useful to record the results with the corresponding 

 numbers : — 



1. "A small-leaved LHpterocarpus ? Motley, 143," is Dipterocarpiis 



fayineus, Vesque. 



2. Vatica, sp. ? ? is an undescribed Hopea. 



3. Vatica^ is Shorea macroptera, Dyer, ' Flor. Brit. Ind.,' i., 308. 



4. Vatica / is Shorea Pinanya, Scheff. 



5. Vatica f is indeterminate. 



6. Hopea ? is an undescribed Shorea. 



7. Hopea / is indeterminate. 



* ' Journal of Botany,' 1878, p. 25. 



* ' Illustrations of the Flora of the Malayan Archipelago and of Tropical 

 Africa.'— Linn. Trans., vol. xxiii.. p. 161. 



