222 XX. DiPTEROCARPACE^. [Shorea. 



Flowers unknown. 

 Leaves glabrous 4'5 in. long, oblong base 



broad, round, stiff, coriaceous ; fruit globose (25) S. crassifolia 

 Leaves thin, 2-5 in. to 4 in. long ; fruit oblong, 



conic, silky ...... (26) S. Isevis 



Leaves 2 in. long, stellate hairy beneath . . (27) S. globifera 



(i) S. leprosula Mtq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. i. 487; Ridl. Straits 

 Agric. Bulletin, viii. 364, pi. iii; King, I.e. no. S. maranti Burck, 

 Ann. Jard. Buitenz. vi. 217; King, I.e. 120. 



A tree 150 to 180 ft. tall, 2 ft. through with buttresses. Branch- 

 lets minutely stellate-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous elliptic to 

 oblong acute or sub-acute, base rounded, above glabrous, beneath 

 tomentose with densely stellate hairs on the midrib and nerves ; 

 nerves 10 to 13 pairs prominent beneath, 3 to 6 in. long, 1*25 to 

 3*25 in. wide; petioles 35 to 75 in. long. Panicles axillary and 

 terminal, i"5 to 4 in. long, stellate tomentose. Flower-branchlets 

 silk)^ Flowers in two rows, secund sessile, cream yellow. Sepals 

 ovate velvety. Petals -3 in. long, oblong-spathulate, silky outside. 

 Stamens 15 ; filaments dilate longer than anthers, no awns. Fruit 

 ovoid apiculate tomentose, 6 in. long; three outer wings narrow 

 oblong sub-acute, narrowed to base, 7-nerved, reticulate yellow, 

 3 in. long, "J in. broad, 2 inner ovate caudate. Hah. Common in 

 forests, Singapore, Pahang, Malacca, Perak, Selangor, Negri Sem- 

 bilan. Distrib. Sumatra and Borneo. Native names : Serayah 

 Batu ; Meranti tembaga ; Meranti bunga. Use : Timber used for 

 furniture, boxes and planking, rather soft and red, and not very 

 durable but much used. 



S. leprosula has a great variety of galls on it and the leaves have in the 

 axils of the nerves beneath almost invariably linear-oblong elevations, which 

 are the nests of mites (Domatia), Shorea maranti Burck, is based on young 

 plants of this species. The most characteristic galls on this plant are a 

 globose one covered with processes like a Castanopsis fruit, and a perfectly 

 smooth cone-shaped brown one an inch long. 



(2) S. scutulata King, I.e. no. 



A large tree. Branchlets stellate, pubescent. Leaves elliptic, 



rather abruptly acuminate, base broad rounded or truncate, glabrous 



above, stellate hairy beneath, 3 to 3-5 in. long, 1-5 to 175 in. wide; 



petioles 3 in. long stellate-pubescent. Panicles axillary and 



terminal, 4-5 to 5 in. long with very short branchlets •25 in. long, 



steUate pubescent. Bracts ovate hoary -i in. long. Sepals broad 



lanceolate blunt tomentose. Petals oblong obtuse, half pubescent 



outside. Stamens 15, in 3 rows; filaments broad, inner ones 



longest, awns short, deciduous. Ovary glabrous with 5 pubescent 



ridges. Fruit ovoid apiculate tomentose, '6 in. long; outer wings 



linear obtuse, 2-5 in. long, 75 in. wide ; nerves 7, transverse nervules 



distinct, inner wings "8 in. long, linear blunt. Hab. Penang, 



Government Hill at 1000 ft. altitude (Curtis). 



The leaves have the same scaly domatia on the backs in the nerve axils 

 as in S. leprosula. 



