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Vol. VI. p. 299. Hamilton di.stiuguislies liis species D. laevis by its 

 flattened branchlets, and perfectly glabi'ous leaves and petioles, -while 

 D. tuherculatns Gaertn. has terete branches and pubescent leaves and 

 petioles. The former (called Bulia Garjan, by the natives of Chitta- 

 gong) yields, he says, no wood-oil ; while the latter (called Telia 

 Garjan) does. The materials before me do not enable me to differen- 

 tiate the two as species. Moreover, specimens sent to me by Dr. E. 

 Thui'ston, Reporter on Economic Products to the Government of India, 

 (and which had been collected by the Forest Officer of Chittagong 

 under the vernacular names Bulia and Telia Garjan) appear exactly 

 alike. Careful investigation in the field may however prove that there 

 is some better basis for Hamilton's view than the trifling differences 

 which he has noted in the outline of the branchlets and the pubescence 

 of the leaves. I am not at all satisfied that the Southern Indian tree 

 named B. indicus by Beddome is rightly reduced here. Better Herba- 

 rium specimens than any which I have seen, and investigation in the 

 field, are 1 think required to settle this point also. 



5. DiPTEROCARPUs Kerkii, King, n. sp. A tall tree ; all parts, 

 except the petals, glabrous ; young branches thin, slightly flattened 

 at the tips, not annular. B^lds narrow, cylindric. Leaves coriaceous, ovate- 

 elliptic, acute or very shortly and bluntly acuminate, the edges undulate, 

 the base cuneate; main nerves 8 to 11 pairs, oblique, straight, bold and 

 shining on the lower surface ; length 3 to 4 in., bi-eadth 2 to 2"5 in., 

 petiole '9 to 11 in. Panicles short, spreading, few-flowered. Flowers 

 1'5 in. long. Calyx-tuhe glaucous. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, more 

 or less pubescent or tomentose towards their middle externally. Frtcit 

 turbinate, smooth, Itol"15 in. in diam. ; accrescent calyx-lobes linear- 

 oblong, blunt, reticulate, 3-nerved, 4"5 to 5 in. long, and 1"25 to 1*5 in. 

 broad : minor lobes very short, broad, rounded. 



Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Uistrib.) No. 199, Griffith 727, Derry 1032. 

 Pangkore ; on Gunong Yunggal, Curtis No. 1561. 



Mr. Curtis describes this as a very large tree yielding an oil. It 

 resembles B. Uasscltii, Bl., but has much smaller leaves. 



I have named this species in honour of Dr. Ken', an enthusiastic 

 Botanist much interested in the Malayan Flora. Closely allied to this, 

 and perhaps identical with it, is the tree represented by ILr. Curtis' 

 specimen (Waterfall, Penang) No. 1653. The young wood of the 

 latter is however paler than that of B. Kerrii from Pangkore and 

 Malacca, and the leaves are puberulous, not glabrous, beneath. I have 

 seen no flowers of it. 



6. Dii'TEROCARPUs CORNUTUS, Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 296. 

 A tree 50 to 70 feet high : young branches stout, compressed, minutely 



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