110 



Anthers of inner row inappendiculate, those 



of the other two rows appendiculate ... 21. 8. Thiseltoni. 



1 . Shorea leprosula, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. I., 487. A tree 

 100 to 150 feet higli : young branches rather slender, lenticellate, 

 minutely and deciduously pale stellate-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, 

 elliptic to oblong, acute or sub-acute, the base rounded ; upper surface 

 glabrous, harsh from the prominent minute reticulations, the midrib 

 and nerves sometimes puberulous ; lower surface minutely fuscous- 

 tomentose, with numerous densely stellate hairs on the midrib nerves and 

 veins ; main nerves 10 to 13 pairs, straight, oblique, prominent beneath ; 

 length 3 to 6 in,, breadth 1*25 to 3"25 in., petiole "35 to "75 in. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, 1*5 to 4 in. long, rachis and branches stellate- 

 tomentose, the short flower-bearing branchlets sericeous. Flotvers in two 

 rows, secund, "3 in. long, sessile. Sepals ovate, minutely velvety out- 

 side. Petals three times as long as the sepals, sericeous outside, oblong- 

 spathulate. Stamens about 15 ; the filaments dilated, much longer than 

 the short ovate inappendiculate anthers. Ovary ovoid, minutely to- 

 m.entose, tapering upwards into the long slender style ; stigma minute. 

 Hipe fruit narrowly ovoid, apiculate, minutely tomentose, 6 in. long. 

 Calyx-ioings all enlarged and membranous, concave at the base so as to 

 embrace the ripe fruit, but not adnate to it ; the three outer narrowly 

 oblong, sub-acute at the apex, nai'rowed at the base, 7-nei'ved, reti- 

 culate, 3 in. long and about "7 in. bi-oad ; the two inner smaller, about 

 1 in. long, ovate, caudate-acuminate, not nerved. A. DC. Prod. XVI. 

 2,631. Scheff. in Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXXI, 350 : Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind., I., 305. Burck in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, YI, 215. Shorea 

 astrosticta, Scortechini MSS. 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew. Distrib.), No. 203. Perak, King's Collector, 

 Nos. 7646, 7905, 8182 ; Scortechini, No 2063. Distrib. Sumatra. 



2. Shorea scutulata. King, n. sp. A large tree ; young branches 

 ■with dark lenticellate bark and minute white stellate pubescence. 

 Leaves elliptic, shortly abruptly and bluntly acuminate ; the base 

 broad, rounded, almost truncate : upper surface glabrous, minutely 

 reticulate ; the lower, and especially the midrib, sparsely stellate- 

 puberulous when young, glabi^escent when old, the sides of the midrib, 

 and especially the pits in the axils of the nerves, with numerous 

 minute brownish pale-edged scales ; length 3 to 3'5 in., breadth 1'5 to 

 1"75 in., petiole "3 in. Panic Zes axillary and terminal, 3 to 4 in. long, 

 the branches short, each bearing 2 or 3 bracteolate flowers ; bracts 

 broadly ovate, concave, blunt, hoary-puberulous, deciduous. Floivers 

 •4 in. long, shortly pedicclled. Sepals broadly lanceolate, obtuse, tomen- 

 tose outside, glabrous inside. Petals oblong, obtuse, the base expanded 



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