1 1 2 Dipterocarpace(S. 



at base by persistent sep., i|-2 in., ovoid-oblong, pointed, 

 5-angled, smooth ; seeds with flat cotyledons. 



Montane zone ; very rare. Gregarious in the forest above Rambodde 

 at about 4000 ft., July 1845 (Gardner). Galagama ; Ambagamuwa 

 (Thwaites); Corfu Estate, Maskeliya, 1889. Fl. March-September ; deep 

 crimson. 



I fear that the extensive clearings in the hills have exterminated this 

 fine species in most places. 



Camellia Thea, Link, the Tea plant, is figured in J. W. Bennett's 

 * Ceylon and its Capabilities,'" p. 276, and said to have been found wild at 

 Batticaloa in 1826. An error is undoubted, but as the Tea plant was in 

 cultivation in Ceylon before 1824 (being included in Moon Cat. p. 42, 

 published in that year), it is probable that the specimen figured was a cul- 

 tivated one. In the text Bennett has confused true Tea with the leaves 

 of the ' Wild Tea ' of the East coast, which is Cassia auriculata. (See 

 also under Etirya and Ehrodendron glaitcmn). 



XXL— DIPTEROCARPACE.^. 



Trees with resinous wood ; 1. alternate, simple, entire, sti- 

 pulate ; fl. regular, bisexual ; sep. 5, very slightly connate 

 at base or rarely combined into a cal.-tube, persistent, usually 

 much enlarged in fruit ; pet. 5, usually connate at base, 

 contorted ; stam. 15 (rarely 10 or 5) or indefinite, fil. very 

 short, distinct or connate at base, connective often prolonged ; 

 ov. free, or very nearly so, 3-celled (rarely 2-celled), with 2 

 pendulous ovules in each cell, style simple ; fruit a i -seeded, 

 usually indehiscent nut, often closely surrounded by, or en- 

 closed in, but not adherent to, the persistent cal.-tube or the 

 usually much enlarged and often winged sep. ; seed large, 

 cotyledons usually unequal, often divided, or lobed, or folded 

 and convolute, no endosperm. 



Sep. combined below into a distinct calyx- 

 tube [. DiPTEROCARPUS. 



Sep. •- cry slightly connate at base. 

 Fruit-sep. greatly enlarged, all with a thick- 

 ened base, and some terminating in long 

 wings. 



Stam. 20 or more 2. Shorea. 



Stam. 15. 

 Three fruit-sep. with wings. ... 3. DOONA. 

 Two fruit-sep. with wings .... 4. Hopea. 



