92 



length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2-25 to 3 in, ; petiole "7 to '9 in., tomentose. 

 Racemes simple, short, 2- or 3-flowered, pubescent. Floivers 2*5 in. long. 

 Calyx with nari'owly campaniilate tube, covered outside with roinute, 

 pale, stellate tomentum. Petals linear-oblong, blunt, more or less pubes- 

 cent outside. Fruit (? immature) globular-ovoid, glabrous, "65 in. in 

 diam. : accrescent calyx-lobes glabi^ous, reticulate, linear, blunt, con- 

 tracted at the very base, nearly 5 in. long and about '7^ in. broad. 



Penang ; at the back of West Hill, at an elevation of 1,000 feet. 

 Curtis No. 1403. 



A very distinct species known only by Mr. Curtis' scanty speci- 

 mens. I have named it in honour of Mr. Skinner, Resident Councellor 

 of Penang. 



4. DiPTEROCARPUS TURBINATDS, Gaertn. f. Fruct. III. 51, t. 188. 

 A tree 80 to 100 feet high : young shoots rather slender, at first minute- 

 ly velvety, pale grey, afterwards glabrous : buds cylindric, softly pale 

 pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, acute 

 or shortly acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cordate, the edges 

 slightly undulate, sometimes sub-crenate ; both surfaces glabrous, or 

 the lower puberulous especially on the midrib and nerves : main nerves 

 12 to 18 paix^s, straight, oblique, prominent on the lower surface ; 

 length 45 to 11 in., breadth 2*5 to 525 in. ; petiole 1 to 1'5 in., glabrous 

 or pubescent : stipules tawny- velvety in the lower part but pubescent to- 

 wards the apex. Racemes 3- to 5-flowered. Flowers 1"25 to 1"5 in. long. 

 Calyx-ivthe obconic, glabrous, smooth, not winged. Petals linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, more or less canescent. Fruit ellipsoid-ovoid, tapering to each end 

 when young : globular when ripe and '75 in. in diam., with neither 

 wings nor ridges ; the two accrescent calyx-lobes glabrous, conspicuously 

 reticulate, obscurely 3-nerved, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 4 to 4*5 in. 

 lono- and 1"25 in. broad ; the three small lobes of the calyx deltoid, very 

 short. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 42; PI. Ind. II. 6J2; Corom. Plants III. 

 10 t. 213. Ham. in Mem. Wern. Soc. VI. 300 : Wall Cat. 952 ; A. DC. 

 Prod. XVI. 2, 607 ; W. and Arn. Prod. 85 ; Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. I, 295 : Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 102 t. 143, fig. 13: Kurz. For. Fl. 

 Burm. I. 114. D. laevis, Ham. 1. c. 299. ; A. DC. 1. c. 607. W. and A. 

 Prod. 85 : Kurz, 1. c, 114. ?D. indicus, Bedd. Forest. Rep. 1864-5, 

 17 cum tab. ; Flora Sylvat. t. 94. 



Assam, Cachar, Chittagong, Burmah, S. India. 



Var. andamanica : enlarged calyx-lobes linear-oblong, not oblancoo- 

 late '75 in. broad ; leaves broadly ovate, sub-cuneate at the base. 



South Andaman : common. 



Following Dyer, I have included under this the plant named D. 

 laevis by Buchanan Hamilton in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, 



384 



