226 XX. DiPTEROCAKPACE^. [Shorea. 



coriaceous, narrow-oblong acuminate, base rounded, glabrous; 

 nerves 15 to 20 pairs, ascending transverse; nervules conspicuous 

 beneath, 4 to 6, 1-35 to 175 in. wide; petioles -4 to -5 in. long. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal 4 to 7 in. long, scurfy puberulous. 

 Flowers -25 in. long, sessile often secund. Sepals ovate acute, 

 free nearly to base, tomentose yellowish green. Petals narrow 

 oblong, very spirally twisted, crimson out.side and half very silky, 

 3^ellow or pink and glabrous within. Stamens white, 15 in 2 

 rows; filaments broad at base; awns long, slender. Ovary 

 elongate-ovoid, yellowish green, hairy on stylopodium. Fruit -6 

 to 75 in. long, ovoid; outer wings very large oblong blunt, base 

 auricled, 3-5 to 4 in. long, i to 1-25 in. wide, red; nerves 9, trans- 

 verse nervules conspicuous ; inner wings short. Hab. The commonest 

 species ranging from Singapore to Pahang, Penang and Perak up 

 to 1200 ft. altitude (Penang). Burkill's var. pallida has white 

 flowers and fruit-wings not so wide at the base. Distrih. Borneo. 

 Native names : Kepong ; Kepong Antu. Use : Bark used for 

 walls of houses and rice-bins. 



The plant, especially when young, ha.s often cone-shaped galls with white 

 scurfy scales and globose beaked shining galls over an inch long. 



(11) S. gratissima Dyer, I.e. i. 307; King, I.e. 115. 



A tree about 80 ft. tall. Branchlets glabrescent. Leaves 

 coriaceous glabrous elliptic acuminate, base rounded or shortly 

 cuneate, margins undulate; nerves faint 12 to 14 pairs, 2*5 to 3 in. 

 long, i'25 to i'5 in. wide; petioles '6 to 75 in. long. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, 3 to 6 in. long, pubescent. Flowers '25 in. 

 long. Sepals, petals and stamens all cream colour. Sepals pubes- 

 cent lanceolate. Petals base and edge stellate pubescent. Stamens 

 15 to 25 ; awns twice as long as anthers. Ovary pubescent to 

 half-way up the style. Fruit globose, '25 in. long, quite covered 

 with the saccate base of sepals ; outer wings membranous linear- 

 rounded; nerves 10 to 12, 2 in. long, '25 in. wide, inner wings 

 oblong-hnear over i in. long. Hab. Forests, Singapore, not rare. 

 Flowers in November; Garden Jungle; Kranji, etc. Disirib. 

 Tenasserim. 



(12) S. Ridleyana King, I.e. 115; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. (2), 

 153, pi. 185B. 



A tree 60 to 80 ft. tall, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves 

 small ovate-lanceolate acuminate, base round, shortly narrowed 

 at tip ; nerves 9 to 10 pairs, slender, inconspicuous ; nervules few, 

 some parallel, others broken up, no distinct reticulations, thinly 

 sub-coriaceous, 2'5 to 4 in. long, i*i to 2 in. wide; petioles 

 •4 to -5 in. long, wrinkled. Panicles 1-5 to 2 in. long, axillary with 

 few branches, stellate-pubescent. Flowers few, -2 in. wide, pedi- 

 celled. Sepals oblong blunt, tomentose. Petals oblong blunt, 

 half puberulous. Stamens 15; filaments dilate below; anthers 



