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the three outer 7-nerved, 1"5 in. long and 4 in. broad ; the two inner 

 similar in shape, but fewer-nerved and only 5 in. long. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 3601 and 3744. 



The only flowers of this species which I have seen are in an early 

 stage of bud, and from them I am unable to make out the characters 

 of the petals properly. The stamens appear to be only 10 in number: 

 but of this I cannot now be quite certain. 



9. Shorea gratissima, Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 307. 

 A tree : younger branches slender, glabrescent, dark-coloured. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic, acuminate, the base broad and rounded, the margins 

 sub-undulate, both surfaces glabrous : main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, faint ; 

 length 2-5 to 4 in., breadth 125 to J '5 in., petiole '6 to "75 in. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, lax, few-flowered, 3 to 6 in. long, sub-puberu- 

 lous. Floioers secund, pedicelled, "25 in. long. Sepals lanceolate, 

 sub-acute ; minutely tomentose outside, glabrous inside in the lower, 

 adpressed-pubescent in the upper, half. Petals twice as long as the 

 calyx and much broader, elliptic, obtuse, glabrescent. Stamens 

 about 20; the filaments short, unequal, dilated. Anthers elongated- 

 ovate, truncate, each with a terminal awn from the connective twice as 

 long as itself. Ovary ovoid, sub-glabrous ; stigma small. Bipe fruit 

 unknown. Hopea gratissima, Wall. Cat. 960. 



Singapore : Wallich. 



This is known only by "Wallich's specimens. He referred it to Hopea, 

 of which genus it certainly has the fades: the aestivation of the 

 sepals is moreover that of Hopea, and so is the apiculus of the con- 

 nective of the stamens. The petals in shape, however, resemble those 

 of Shorea. I retain it in Shorea in deference to the opinion of Mr. 

 Dyer. 



10. Shorea Ridleyana, King, n. sp. A tree 60 or 80 feet high : 

 young branches slender, dark brown, lenticellate, nearly glabrous. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base rounded : both 

 surfaces glabrous, the upper shining: main nerves 9 or 10 pairs, curved, 

 spreading, thin but slightly prominent beneath : length 25 to A in., 

 breadth Tl to 2 in. ; petiole '4 to "5 in., rugulose. Panicles axillaiy 

 and terminal, 1*5 to 2 in. long, densely stellate-puberulous Fioioers 

 '2 in. long, pedicellate. Sepals sub-equal, oblong, obtuse, tomentose 

 outside, glabrous inside. Petals oblong, slightly oblique, obtuse, glab- 

 rous inside, puberulous outside on one half, glabrous on the other. 

 Stamens 15, sub-equal, the filaments dilated in the lower half : anthers 

 shorter than the filaments, ovate, the connective produced into an awn 

 longer than the anther. Ovary ovoid-conical, minutely tomentose. 

 Style short ; stigma minute. Fruit (immature) ovoid, apiculate, minutely 



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