240 XX. DIPTEROCARPACE/E. [Cotyklobium. 



2 in. long, 3 inner ones 75 in. long. Hah. Rare. Singapore at 

 Sungei Moral (Ridley). Dislrib. Borneo. Native name : Rassak. 



10. SYNAPTEA, Griffith. 



Medium to large trees. Leaves thin coriaceous with con- 

 spicuous nerves. Flowers small in axillary and terminal panicles, 

 white or yellow. Sepals free to base. Petals not contort. Stamens 

 15 in 2 unequal series; anthers oblong, valves unequal, connective 

 shortly prolonged to a cylindric or conic point. Ovary 3-celled; 

 style short. Fruit nut small; sepals free to base, 2 large linear 

 oblong and 2 ovate as long as nut. Species about 12, Indo-Malaya. 



Leaves large oblong; panicles short, dense, red 



furfuraceous ; sepals in fruit very unequal. 

 Leaves 4 in. long; flowers "45 in. long; petioles 



long, slender, glabrous; branches glabrous . (i) S. Maingayi 

 Leaves 4 in. long; flowers "4 in. long; petioles 



short with branches tomentose . . . (2) S. Dyei'i 



Leaves 3 in. long; flowers "25 in. long . . (3) S. Lowii 



Leaves 4 in. long; flowers '45 in. long in lax 



panicles, tomentose . . . . . (4) S. lancaviensis 



Leaves narrowoblongg to loin. long by2 in. wide (5) S. nitens 

 Leaves elliptic-lanceolate cuspidate; inner 



sepals long cuspidate . . . . . (6) S. cuspidata 



Leaves 3 in. long; panicles lax mostly terminal. 

 Leaves lanceolate long-acuminate ; wings of 



fruit 3 in. long (7) S. perakensis 



Leaves elliptic, shortly acuminate; wings of 



fruit 2 in. oblong (8) S. faginea 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate ; wings 2 in. long, 



•75 in. wide, oblanceolate . . . . (9) S. cinerea 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate ; panicles very lax . (10) S. reticulata 



(i) S. Maingayi Ridl. Vatica Maingayi Dyer, F.B.I, i. 302 ; 

 King, I.e. 104. 



A big tree. Branchlets, inflorescence, flowers and young fruit 

 thickly red-tomentose. Leaves thinly coriaceous, glabrous (drying 

 red brown) oblong or oblong-obovate, shortly acute, base rounded 

 or slightly narrowed ; nerves slender, 9 to 12 pairs, curved upwards, 

 slightly elevate, 3 to 4"5 in. long, i to 175 in. wide; petioles '6 

 to i'5 in. long. Panicles dense, i to i"25 in. long, numerous axillary. 

 Flowers "45 in. long. Sepals lanceolate sub-acute. Petals linear- 

 oblong. Ovary tomentose. Fruit globose, -25 in. through, free 

 from the calyx, large wings linear-oblong, sub-acute, 5-nerved, 

 2 in. long, '35 to '5 in. wide, 3 small ones ovate sub-acuminate, 

 •25 in. long. Hah. Forests. Johor, Pinerong (Cantley). Malacca 

 (Maingay). Bindings, Gunong Melintang (Foxworthy). Native 

 name : Maralang. 



(2) S. Dyeri Pierre, Fl. For. Cochinchine, t. 241. Vatica Dyeri 

 King, I.e. 106. 



Tree 80 to 130 ft. tall, 2 to 3 ft. through. Young branches, 

 panicles and calyx brown-tomentose, flocculent with stellate hairs. 



