Ii6 Dipterocarpacece. \Shorea. 



Moist low country; rare. Ambagamuwa ; near Ratnapura. FI. 

 March, April ; pale yellow with a pink tinge. 



Endemic. 



The blackish resinous oil, ' Dorana tel,' is a good substitute for 

 Gurjun Balsam, and is used in the Leper Hospital at Colombo. 



5. I>. insigrnis, Thw. Ejtian. 34 (1858). 



C. P. 3406. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 298. 



A large tree, twigs woolly-pubescent ; 1. 3^-5 in., oval, 

 rounded or acute at base, shortly and bluntly acuminate, 

 entire, glabrous above, hairy on veins beneath, lat. veins 10-12, 

 petioles 4 in., pubescent ; fl. 2^ in. diam., sessile, few (1-3), 

 distant, on short, drooping, axillary spikes ; cal. glabrous, tube 

 oblong, with 5 very wide undulated wings reaching to the 

 base, enlarged lobes as long as tube, others very short truncate; 

 pet. oval-oblong broad, stellate-pubescent outside ; fruit-cal. 

 4-4^ in., glabrous, tube ovoid, with 5 straight not undulated 

 wings \ in. wide. 



Moist low country ; rare. Near Ratnapura; Hewesse, Pasdun Korale. 

 Fl. April ; purplish-yellow. 



Endemic. 



2. SHOREA,* AVr3. 



Large trees ; 1. with small deciduous, or large coriaceous, 

 persistent stip. ; fl. small, in axillary panicles ; sep. 5, distinct ; 

 pet. 5 ; stam. numerous, connective cuspidate ; ov. 3-celled ; 

 nut closely surrounded by the somewhat cupped dilated bases 

 of enlarged winged sep., 3 of which are much longer than 

 the other two, wings 7-1 1 veined ; cotyledons unequal, plane- 

 convex, each deeply bilobed. — Sp. about 40; 19 in Fl. B. Ind. 

 Stipules inconspicuous, soon falling. 



Lateral veins of leaves 1 1-16 on each side. 



Leaves 4-8 ins. i. S. OBLONGIFOLIA. 



Leaves less than 4 ins. 



Tertiary leaf-veins sub-parallel . . 2. S. Dyerii. 



„ reticulated . . . . 3. S. RETICULATA. 

 Lateral veins 6-8 on each side . . . 4. S. LISSOPHYLLA. 

 Stipules large, persistent 5. S. STIPULARIS. 



I. S. oblong'ifolia, Thw. Eniim. 36 (1858). 



C. P. 3005. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 307. 



A large tree ; young shoots finely pubescent ; 1. 4-8 in., 

 ovate-oblong, more or less cordate at base, shortly acuminate, 

 glabrous on both sides, shining above, finely reticulate and 

 often paler beneath, lat. veins about 16, petioles \ in., puberu- 



* In honour of Sir John Shore, afterwards Lord Teignmouth, 

 Governor-General of Bengal, 1793-8. 



