Shorea.'] Dipterocarpacece . 117 



lous ; fl. small, nearly sessile on one side of the spreading or 

 drooping branches of long lax axillary and apparently ter- 

 minal panicles ; sep. hood-oval, obtuse, densely pubescent ; 

 pet. \ in., erect, linear-oblong, the margin revolute, silky 

 outside ; stam. about 60, with three terminal bristles ; fruit- 

 sep. pubescent, the larger 2^-2f in., obovate-oblong, the 

 shorter 2 in., oblong-linear, nut f in., pointed, finely pubescent. 



Moist low country ; rather common. Eknaligoda ; Hiniduma ; 

 Singhe Raja ; Moragala ; Avisawella ; Labugama. Fl. April-June ; yellow 

 with pink base. 



Endemic. Very near S. Ttimbugaia, Roxb., of S. India. 



Liable to produce the curious hop-like galls noticed under Doona 

 cordifolia. 



Called ' Dun ' in W. Prov. 



2. S. Dyerii, Thw. in Trim. Joiirn. Bot. xxiii. 204 (1885). 

 C.P. 4010. 



Tree, young parts finely pubescent ; 1. (upper) 2^-3 in., 

 narrowly ovate-lanceolate, rounded at base, gradually taper- 

 ing to shortly acuminate, obtuse or subacute apex, paler 

 beneath, lat. veins 12-14, petioles | in., slender, puberulous ; 

 fl. numerous, sessile, rather closely placed along upper side of 

 short divaricate branches of lax spreading axillary and ter- 

 minal panicles ; sep. broad-oval, subacute, densely pubescent; 

 pet. oblong-oval, flat, spreading, \ in., densely silky outside ; 

 stam. about 60, anth. with a strongly ciliated apiculus half as 

 long as themselves ; style very short ; fruit not seen. 



'South of the Island' (Thwaites). I have no further information 

 about this species, which has not been again collected. Fl. red. 



Endemic. 



The material for this species is imperfect. 



3. S. reticulata, Thw. in Fl. B. Ind. \. 307 (1874). 



C. P. 3884. 



A tree, young parts glabrous ; 1. 3-4 in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 attenuate, acute, glabrous, shining above, paler beneath, lat. 

 veins 11, curved, not very prominent, tertiary veins reticulate, 

 petioles \ in., channelled above ; fl. not seen ; fruit-sep. 

 pubescent, the larger 2-2;^ in., the smaller i-i^ in., wings 

 linear 7-9 veined. 



Only known from the C. P. specimen, collected in Morowak Korale, 

 Sept. 1865. 



4. S. lissophylla, Thw. Enum. 402 (1858). 

 C. P. 3407. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 307. 



A large tree, with blackish bark, young shoots glabrous ; 

 1. 3-5 in., broadly ovate, rounded or subcadate at base, 

 abruptly and shortly acuminate, obtuse, coriaceous, smooth 



