Shorea.] xx. dipterocarpace^. 229 



long, 7 in. wide, inner ones linear 2 in. long. Hab. Perak, Thaiping 

 Hills (Kunstler). 



(17) S. giblDOsa Brandts, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxi. 99. 



A big tree 100 ft. tall. Main branches dilated and flattened 

 at the base ; branchlets wrinkled. Leaves sub-membranous glabrous, 

 ovate acuminate, base blunt ; nerves 7 or 8 pairs, slender ; nervules 

 and reticulations wide few, 3 to 4 in. long, 1-25 to 2 in. wide ; petioles 

 ■5 in. long. Panicles lax, 2 to 3 in. long of 6 or 7 distant branches 

 •5 in. long, scurfy. Flowers shortly pedicelled, cream white. 

 Sepals ovate blunt, white-tomentose. Petals much longer, linear- 

 oblong blunt, pubescent outside. Stamens 10, 5 inner ones with 

 gibbous filaments, 5 outer ones not gibbous; awns filiform, three 

 times as long as the anther. Ovary puberulous. Fruit cylindric- 

 conic, apiculate, 75 in. long, much longer than the short sepal- 

 cup, outer wings thin oblong-spathulate blunt, 6-nerved pubescent, 

 2'5 in. long, 3 in. wide, inner ones 2 in. long; nerves inconspicuous, 

 all yellowish green. Hab. Very rare. A single tree in Tanglin, 

 Singapore, near the Gardens. 



The fruit closely resembles that of S. dry obala)io ides Dyer, of Borneo, but 

 the flowers and leaves are quite different. 



(18) S. bracteolata Dyer, in Hook. fit. F.B.I, i. 305 ; King, 

 I.e. uj. 



A tree rising to 150 ft. taU and 15 to 20 ft. through. Branchlets 

 minutely mealy puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly acuminate, base round or emarginate, above glabrous, 

 beneath mealy-puberulous, becoming glabrous; nerves 12 to 16 

 pairs prominent, 4 to 6 in. long, i-6 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles '45 

 to "6 in. long. Panicles axillary, 2*5 to 6 in. long, glabrous, numer- 

 ous. Flowers '65 in. long, pedicelled with 2 elliptic blunt 3-nerved 

 deciduous bracts 35 in. long. Sepals lanceolate blunt tomentose. 

 Petals ovate-lanceolate blunt, half mealy, cream white, rose pink 

 at base, withering yellow, fragrant. Stamens 15 in 2 rows; anthers 

 5'ellow, twice as long as the filaments ; awns very long, subulate. 

 Fruit ovoid beaked, '6 in. long, free from calyx, glabrous; outer 

 wings oblong obtuse, narrowed slightly at base, thinly coriaceous, 

 red; nerves 10, 3*5 in. long, '6 in. wide, inner ones 2 in. long, "2 in. 

 wide, linear. Hab. Forests. Malacca (Maingay) ; Selandor (Good- 

 enough) ; Ayer Panas (Burkih). Pahang, Bentong, Bukit Gabing 

 and Kwala Lipis (Foxworthy). Negri Sembilan, Tampin; Sena- 

 wang (BurkiU). Bindings. Penang, Waterfall (Curtis). Distrib. 

 Sumatra. Native names : Chengah ; Chengoh ; Meranti Ketapak ; 

 Meranti Pa'am ; Langgang Pa'am ; Langgang Batu ; Pinang Baik ; 

 Semah ; Temah. 



(19) S. ciliata King, I.e. 118; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. (2), 

 154, pi. 187A. 



A tree 40 to 50 ft. tall. Branchlets dark hoary pubescent. 

 Leaves coriaceous lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base 



