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mfous-tomentose with a few scattered longer hairs. Leaves large, 

 coriaceous, oJDlong, blunt at each end, the edges undulate or obscurely 

 sinuate-crenate : upper sui'face glabrous, the midrib and nerves pale 

 when dry : under surface densely covered with minute, pale, stellate 

 tomentum : main nerves 16 to 20 pairs, prominent, spreading, straight, 

 the transverse veins rather distinct : length 9 to 14 in., breadth 5 to 8 

 in., petiole 2 to 3 in. ; stipules rufous- sericeous, the hairs fascicled. 

 Sacemes 7- or 8-flowered. Flowers 1*75 in. long. Calyx-tube 5-winged, 

 canescent, the short lobes very obtuse. Petals oblong or sub-sijathulate, 

 stellate-canescent. Fniit about 1 in. long, sub-globular, with 5 thick 

 short wings in its upper half ; enlarged calyx-lobes linear, obtuse, 5 or 

 6 in. long and 1'25 to 175 in. broad, shining, boldly 3-nerved, reticulate. 

 Dyer in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 103, t. 143. fig. 15. Parinarinm dilleni- 

 folinm, H. Br. Wall. Cat. No. 7520. Petrocarya dUlenifolia, Steud. 

 Nomencl. II, 309. 



Singapore : Wallich. Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 197. 

 Penang : Curtis No. ]402. Perak : Wray, No. 4160. 



It was Sir Joseph Hooker who first pointed out that the Walli- 

 chian plant No. 7520, issued as Parinarium, belongs really to this 

 species. 



7. DiPTEROCARPDS FAGiNEUS, Vesque in Com])tes-Rendus, tome 78, 

 p. 626 : Journ. Bot. for 1874, p. 149. A tree 40 to 80 feet high : young 

 branches slender, at first minutely pulverulent tawny-pubescent, ulti- 

 mately glabresent or glabrous and dark-coloured, the buds cylindric. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic- ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, the edges 

 entire or sub-imdulate-crenulate, the base cuneate, both surfaces puberu- 

 lous especially on the midrib and nerves ; main nerves 10 to J3 pairs, 

 straight, oblique, prominent on the sub-glaucous lower surface ; length 

 2*5 to 3"25 in., breadth VS to 1'75. Racemes slender, 1- to 4-flowered. 

 Flowers about 125 in. long. Calyx-tube campanulate, not constricted 

 at the mouth, 5-angled. Pipe fruit ellipsoid, tapering more at the base 

 than at the apex, 5-angled, glaucous, 1 in. long: acci-escent calyx-lobes 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, contracted at the base, 3-nerved, 2'5 to 3 in. 

 long and about *75 in. broad. B. prismatiais, Dyer Journ. Bot. 1874. 

 pp. 104, 152. t. 144 fig. 17. Lipterocarpus, sp. Hook. fil. in Linn. Trans. 

 XXIII, 161. 



Perak : King's Collector No. 3527, Scortechini. Penang ; Curtis 

 No. 1401. 



D. faginetis, Vesque, has been collected hitherto only in Borneo 

 (Beccari No. .3008 and Motley No. 143,) and the leaves are described 

 ^y Dyer as being papyraceous in texture and having about 8 pairs of 

 lateral nerves. Tlie leaves of the Perak tree which I now refer to this 



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