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broadly ovate, acute, tomontose outside ; the edges ciliate, glabrous 

 inside. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse ; the bases obliquely expanded, 

 sericeous externally, glabrous internally. Stamens 15, sub-equal, the 

 filaments as long as the anthers, flattened ; anthers ovate, short, the 

 connective terminated by a curved awn much longer than the stamen. 

 Ovary elongate-conic, pubeiulous ; style short. Itipe fruit hemispheric, 

 tapering into a cone and crowned by the style, adpressed pale tomen- 

 tose. Sepals membranous, reticulate : the three larger narrowly ob- 

 long, obtuse, tapering to the concave non-reticulate base, 9-nerved, 

 3*5 in. long and 7 in. broad : the two inner 2 in. long, linear, 3-nerved. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 3474 and 3705. 



This species is allied to aS^. bracteolata, Dyer, but its leaves have 

 fewer nerves, smaller flowers, narrower petals, and a short style. 



13. Shorea bracteolata. Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br, Ind. I, 305. A 

 tree 50 to 150 feet high ; young branches minutely furfuraceous- 

 puberulous, speedily glabrescent, their bark dark-coloured. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate (often sub-obtuse when 

 old), narrowed slightly to the rounded or emarginate base ; upper 

 surface quite glabrous ; the lower yellowish furfuraceous-puberulous 

 to glabrous ; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, spreading, prominent beneath : 

 length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1-6 to 25 in., petiole '45 to '6 in. Panicles 

 axillary, few-flowered, 2'5 to 6 in. long, glabrous. Flotvers '65 in. long, 

 shoi-tly pedicellate, each subtended by 2 elliptic, obtuse, 3-nerved, pubeiu- 

 lous, deciduous bracts "35 in long. Sepals lanceolate, obtuse, minutely 

 tomentose outside, the two inner smaller. Pe^aZs ovate-lanceolate, obtuse • 

 the bases expanded, glabrous. Stamens 15, in two rows, the filaments 

 less than half as long as the ovate obtuse anthers ; appendix of connective 

 subulate, twice as long as the anther, decurved when old. Ovary ovoid 

 attenuated upwards, sub-glabrous ; the style long, filiform ; stio-ma 

 small. Pipe fruit ovoid, apiculate, 6 in. long, embraced by, but (except 

 at the very base) free from the calyx ; sepals accrescent, mem- 

 branous, reticulate and concave at the base : the three outer narrowly 

 oblong, blunt, slightly narrowed above the concave base, lO-nei-ved 

 35 in. long, and 6 in. broad ; the two smaller about 2 in. long, and -2 

 in. broad, about 3-nerved. Shorea foveolata, Scortechini MSS. in Herb. 

 Calcutta. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 204. Penang : Curtis 

 Nos. 322 and 1405. Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 7583, 7591, 7717; 

 Scortechini, No. 1939. Distrib. — Sumatra. Forbes, No. 3050. 



14. Shorea glauca, King, n. sp. A tree 80 to 100 feet high ; 

 young branches slender, dark-coloured, puberulous. Leaves coriaceous 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; the base liroad, rounded ; upper suiface 



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