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rufous-tomentose as are the inflorescence and petioles. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong (rarely sliglitly ob-ovate), very shortly 

 acuminate or sub-acute, slightly narrowed to the rounded or sub- 

 cuueate base ; upper surface shining, sparsely stellate-tonaentose, the 

 depressed midrib and nerves puberulous ; lower surface scaberulous, 

 more densely stellate-pubescent, especially on the bold midrib and 20 to 

 22 pairs of stout spreading main nerves ; length 3'5 to 6*5 in,, breadth 

 I'5 to 2"75 in., petiole '6 to '8 in. Pawt'cZes axillary and terminal, 3 to 7 

 in. long, the ultimate branches bearing 4 or 5 distichous, second, brac- 

 teate, sessile flowers ; bracts bx'oadly ovate, puberulous outside. Sepals 

 ovate, the two inner smaller, all densely golden-sericeous outside, 

 glabrous inside. Petals like the sepals and of about the same length, 

 the inside and one-half of the outer glabrous, the other half adpress- 

 ed-sericeous. Stamens about 40, in several rows ; the filaments of the 

 outer shorter, all longer than the anthers ; anthers ovate, mostly in- 

 appendiculate, a few with a minute appendix. Ovary elongated, conic, 

 sericeous; the style short, glabrous ; stigma small. i^rwiY (immature) 

 narrowly ovoid, '5 in. long, embraced by, but not adnate to, the accres- 

 cent membranous calyx-wings : the outer 3 calyx-wings lineai-oblong 

 obtuse, narrowed to the base, 3*5 in. long and "6 in. broad, ]0-ncrved ; 

 the 2 inner 2*5 in. long and much narrower and fewer-nerved, sparsely 

 pubescent. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew. Distrib.) No. 202. Penang : Curtis, 

 No. 431. Perak : King's Collector, No. 3511. 



This resembles S- lacunosa SchefE., but differs in not having persis- 

 tent stipules. Its vernacular name in Penang is Seraya. 



5. Shorea PAKViFOLiA, Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind., I., 305. A tree 

 100 to 150 feet high ; young branches slender, pale tomentose at first, 

 ultimately glabrous, dark-coloured and lenticellate. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, the base sub- 

 cuneate or almost rounded; upper surface glabrous (when young the 

 midrib tomentose oi- pubescent) ; under surface sparsely scaly-pubescent 

 when young, when adult minutely pubescent, the transverse veins thick ; 

 main nerves 9 to 12 piiirs, oblique, rather straight, prominent beneath : 

 length 2'5 to 4 in., breadth 1 to 1*8 in. ; petiole "35 to '45 in., tomentose 

 when young. Panicles axillary and terminal, crowded near the ends 

 of the branches, 2 to 4 in. long, rather lax, spreading, many-flowered, 

 minutely tomentose, the bianches distichous. Floivers "25 in. long, 

 secund, distichous, deciduously bractcate. Sepals slightly unequal, 

 ovate, acute, tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals twice as long 

 as the sepals, obliquely elliptic, obtuse, glabrous, except on one- 

 half outside which is silky. Stamens 15, or fewer : the filaments flatten- 



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