DRYOBALANOPS CAMPHORA. ORD. Dipterocarpex. 125 
Gen. Char. Calyx of one leaf, permanent, the border divided into five long, 
ligulate, reflexed wings. Corolla five-petaled. Capsule superior, one- 
celled, three-valved.. Seed solitary. Embryo, inverse, without perisperm. 
Spec. Char: Leaves superior, alternate, inferior ones opposite, elliptical, ob- 
tusely acuminate, entire. Petioles short. Stipules in pairs, subulate, 
caducous. - 
‘The Dryobalanops Camphora is a native of Sumatra and Borneo.* We 
are told by Mr. Prince} that it is to be found in great abundance in the 
forests, from the back of Ayer Bongey, as far north as Bacougan, a distance of 
two hundred and fifty miles. It is classed among the tallest and largest trees 
that grow on the coast, frequently measuring from six to seven feet in 
diameter, but they are many years of age before they acquire that size. The 
following description we have from Mr. H. T. Colebroke’s scientific paper 
on this subject in vol. xii. of the Asiatic Researches. He says: “The de- 
scription I shall offer of it is unavoidably imperfect, as the flower has not 
yet been seen by any botanist.” The trunk rises to a great height, is arbor- 
eous, and covered with a brownish bark; the leaves are from three to seven 
inches long, and from one to two broad, elliptical, obtusely acuminate, en- 
tire, parallel-veined, smooth, and standing upon short petioles, with subulate 
caducous stipules, in pairs; the lower leaves are opposite, the upper ones 
alternate; the perianth is persistent, one-leaved, divided at the border into 
five foliaceous, spathulate, rigid, reflexed wings; the capsule is superior, 
ovate, woody, fibrous, finely streaked with longitudinal furrows, embraced 
at the base by the calycine, hemispherical cup of the perianth, and sur- 
rounded by its enlarged Jeaflets ; one-celled and three-valved ; the seed is so- 
litary, conforming to the cavity of the capsule, and has a strong terebintha- 
abounding in resinous juice. The leaves, in all, one-petioled, alternate, entire, veined in 
a pinnated manner, jointed upon the stem with an involuted estivation. Oblong séi- 
pules are present, which are circumvolute about the young leaf, as in the fig-tribe, and 
deciduous, leaving a circular scar, which indicates their pre-existence. Peduncles ra- 
cemose and axillary near the extremity of the branches, or rarely constituting a terminal 
panicle.— Blume, Flora Jerve. 
* This tree is not known to exist in any other part of the world. 
+ Asiatic Researches, Vol. xii. 
