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surface glabrescent or glalbroiis, chocolate-coloured when dry : main 

 nei'ves 10 to 12 pairs, curved, spreading, prominent on the lower 

 surface; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 135 to 1*75 in.; petiole '4 to "5 

 in., rugose. Panicles axillary or terminal, 4 to 7 in. long, lax, branch- 

 ing, few-flowered, puberulous, sparsely scaly. Flowers about '5 in. 

 long, sessile, solitary, not secund. Sepals distinct almost to the 

 base, slightly unequal, broadly-ovate, acute, more or less yellowish- 

 tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals narrowly oblong, slightly 

 oblique at the base, the apex blunt, glabrous except one-half of the outer 

 surface which is sericeous. Stamens 15, in two rows ; filaments broad 

 except at the apex, those of the outer two rows by much the shorter : 

 anthers short, ovate, the connective minutely awned. Ovary elongated- 

 ovoid, sericeous in its upper half ; style short, stigma small. Ripe 

 fruit '6 to "75 in. long, narrowly ovoid, pale puberulous, apiculate : 

 sepals all enlarged and reticulate, slightly concave at the base and 

 embracing, but not adnate to, the fruit ; the three outer narrowly 

 oblong, obtuse, tapering slightly to the auricled base, 7-nerved, 3'5 to 

 4'5 in. long, and "8 to 1 in. broad ; the two inner variable, but 

 shorter, narrower and fewer nerved. Shorea auriculata, Scortechini 

 MSS. in Herb., Calcutta. 



Malacca : Maingay. Singapore : Ridley. Penang : Curtis, No. 

 1392. Perak : very common, King's Collector, Scortechini. 



A species from Borneo which closely resembles this appears to me 

 to differ specifically. Its leaves are longer with sparser nerves, and its 

 calyx-wings are longer. 



8. Shorea Maxwelliana, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 

 young branches dark-coloured, almost glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate (caudate-acuminate when young), the base 

 unequal-sided, cuneate ; botii surfaces quite glabrous, the upper shining, 

 the lower chocolate-coloured when dry : main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, curved, 

 spreading, thin and inconspicuous : length 3 to 4 in., breadth 1'3 to 1*5 

 in., petiole 4 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, 25 to 3 in. long, 

 stellate-puberulous, their lateral bi-anches very short and few-flowered. 

 Floivers shortly pedicelled. Sepals unequal, oblong, blunt, with enlarg- 

 ed concave bases, more or less pubescent, but glalirous in the concavity 

 of the base inside. Petals oblong, concave and saccate at the base, 

 tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Stamens 10 (?), the filaments 

 short, broad ; the anthers elongate, erect, pointed, the connective end- 

 ing in an awn as long as the anther. Ovary hemispheric ; the style 

 long, slender ; stigma minute. Fruit (not mature) globular, minutely 

 tomentose, closely invested by, but not adnate to, the concave bases of 

 the sepals : sepals all enlarged, membranous, narrowly oblong, obtuse ; 

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