234 ^^- DiPTEROCARPACEiE. [Pachychlamys. 



(2) P. Hemsleyanus Ridl. Balanocarpus Hemsleyanus King, 

 I. c. 134; Ajin. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. (2), 160, pi. 193; Brandis, I.e. 

 109, pi. 3, ^^. 27. 



Tree 40 to 60 ft. tall. Branchlets stout, black rough. Leaves 

 stiffly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, slightly narrowed, rounded at 

 base, glabrous above, scabrid beneath from stellate hairy tubercles, 

 abundant on midrib and nerves 18 to 20 pairs, oblique, 7 to 12 

 in. long, 3-25 in. to 5 in. wide; petioles thick rugose 75 in. long. 

 Panicles 3 to 7 in. long, densely stellate pubescent. Flowers -5 in. 

 long, crowded, rich pink, outside silvery. Sepals sub-equal, broadly 

 ovate acute, tomentose. Petals twice as long elHptic obtuse 

 oblique, partly silky outside. Stamens 15 ; filaments dilate ; 

 awns longer than anthers. Fruit ovoid apiculate tomentose, 1*25 

 to 175 in. long, 75 in. to i in. through; sepals sub-equal, i to 

 1-25 in. long, forming a woody cup. Hab. Forests. Perak, Thaiping 

 (Kunstler). Province Wellesley, Sungei daun; Tasek Gelugur 

 (Curtis). Penang, Batu Feringhi. Native name : Meranti Balau. 

 Use : Timber valuable. 



7. PARASHOREA, Kurz. 



Big trees with coriaceous leaves. Panicles numerous, many- 

 flowered. Flowers small. Sepals on a broad receptacle almost 

 valvate. Stamens 15 ; anthers linear ; anther-cells unequal, 

 2 posterior beaked, connective prolonged. Ovary hairy. Fruit 

 tomentose ; wings 5 nearly equal not enclosing the fruit. Species 3, 

 Burma, Malay islands. 



(i) P. stellata Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 66; Pierre, 

 For. Flor. Cochinchine, 14, t. 224. Shorea stellata Dyer, in Hook. fil. 

 F.B.I, i. 304; King, I.e. 120; Brandis, I.e. 104, pi. 2, figs. 11 and 12. 



Tree 100 to 150 ft. tall, 4 to 5 ft. through. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, base rounded glabrous; nerves 8 to 11 pairs, prominent 

 beneath, 4 to 5"5 in. long, 175 to 2'25 in. wide; petioles 7 to '9 in. 

 long. Panicles 4 to 6 in. long, very numerous, stellate pubescent. 

 Flowers '25 in. across velvety pale yellow. Sepals ovate-oblong, 

 tomentose. Petals broadly ovate blunt, pubescent outside. 

 Stamens bimucronate, the connective also mucronate. Ovary 

 tomentose; style short. Fruit ovoid apiculate; wings linear 

 oblong much narrowed at the base and free from the fruit, 5-nerved, 

 4*5 in. long, -6 in. wide. Hab. Dense jungle. Perak, Gunong 

 Pondok (Kunstler). Disirib. Burma. 



8. HOPEA, Roxb. 



Big or vast trees resinous, with transparent resin. Stipules 

 small. Flowers small in panicled unilateral racemes. Sepals 2, 

 external, 3 internal, imbricate. Petals silky or tomentose on the 

 part exposed in bud only, contort, narrow, yellow, red or white. 



