108 



panicles ; bracts persistent, caducous, or 0. Sepals ovate or lanceolate, 

 imbricate, 3 being external and 2 internal. Stamens 15 or 20, or 30 ; 

 anthers ovate or oblong, rarely linear ; connective subulate-cuspidate, 

 rarely inappendiculate ; valves obtuse, rarely cuspidate, equal, or the 

 outer slightly larger. Ovary 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; style subulate, 

 stigma entire or 3-toothed. Fruit with leathery, rarely with woody, 

 pericarp, 1-celled, 1-seeded, closely surrounded by the bases of the 

 persistent, usually accrescent, sepals, the 3 outer, or more rarely, all, 

 and sometimes none, of which are developed into 7- to 10- veined reti- 

 culate membranous linear-oblong wings. Cotyledons fleshy, unequal, 

 usually enclosing the superior radicle. Distrib — Tropical Asia and 

 chiefly the Malayan Archipelago : species about 60. 



Sect. I. Eu.-Shorea. Fruit little more than "5 in. long, its pericarp 

 leathery : thi^ee of the persistent sepals developed into membra- 

 nous wings many times longer than the fruit. 

 Anthers without apical appendages. 



Lower surface of adult leaves minutely stel- 



late-tomentose, not scaberulous 

 Lower surface of adult leaves glabrescent, 



the axils of the nerves scaly 

 Lower surface of adult leaves quite glabi"Ous, 

 of young leaves glaucous 

 Anthers mostly inappendiculate, a few with a 

 minute apical appendage from the connective. 

 Stamens 30 

 Anthers with very short apical appendages from 

 the connective ; flowers sessile. 



Leaves 2'5 to 4 in. long, the lower surfaces mi- 

 nutely pubescent : flower •25 in. long ; fi^uit 

 ovoid-globose, its largest wings 2'5 in. long 

 Leaves 3 to 45 in. long, glabrous beneath : 

 flower '3 in, long : fruit turbinate, its 

 largest wings 3*5 in long 

 Leaves 4 to 6 in. long, glabrescent or glabr- 

 ous beneath ; fruit narrowly ovoid, its 

 longest wings 35 to 45 in. long. 

 Apical appendage from the connective much 

 longer than the anther. 



Leaves glabrous on both surfaces, the lower 

 not pale. 



Stamens 10 (?) 

 Stamens 2U 

 400 



1. S. leprosula. 



2. S. scutulata. 



3. S- Gurtisii. 



4. S. sericea. 



5. 



S. parvi folia. 



6. S. acuminata. 



7. S. macroptera. 



8. 

 9. 



(S. MaTicelliava. 

 S. (jratissivia. 



