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glabrous, the lower glaucous (except the midrib and nerves) especially 

 when young ; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, ascending, rather straight : 

 length 3*5 to 45 in., breadth 1'4 to 1"8 in.; petiole '45 to 6 in., rugulose, 

 glaucous. Panicles axillary, few-flowered, shorter than the leaves, 

 hoary, the flowers on short pedicels. Sepals slightly unequal, oblong, 

 obtuse, tomentose on both surfaces. Ovary conical, tomentose ; the 

 style very short, glabrous ; stigma small, 3-lobed. Fruit (immature) 

 ovoid-globose, apiculate, minutely tomentose ; accrescent sepals mem- 

 branous, free from the fruit; obscurely 7- to 12-nerved, strongly 

 reticulate, blunt, slightly narrowed to the concave base, at first 

 puberulous but ultimately glabrous ; the longer 2"25 in. long, and '6 

 to 75 in. broad, the others smaller. 



Penang : Curtis, No. 372. Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), 212. 



In this species the two inner fruiting wings of the calyx are 

 nearly as large as the three outer ; the leaves are very white underneath 

 when young, but much less conspicuously so when adult. It is known, 

 only by Curtis' and Maingay's specimens, none of which have com- 

 plete flowers. Maingay's specimens from Malacca have in fact no flowers ; 

 but there is no mistaking their leaves as being exactly like those of 

 Mr. Curtis' from Penang. The vernacular name of this is Dammar 

 laut dhaii lesor. 



15. Shorea ciliata. King, n. sp. A medium-sized tree; young 

 branches slender, dark-coloured, deciduously hoary-puberulous. Leaves 

 coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 both surfaces glabrous, minutely reticulate, the lower whitish when 

 young, pale brown when dry ; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, ascending, 

 curved, shining on the lower surface : length 3 to 35 in., breadth 'S 

 to 1"5 in., petiole "75 to "9 in. Panicles 2 to 2*5 in. long, axillary and 

 terminal, little-branched, fcAv-flowered, hoary. Flutvers 5 in. long, 

 secund. Sepals ovoid-deltoid, obtuse, outside tomentose, inside gla- 

 brous. Petals three times as long as the sepals, narrowly oblong, obtuse, 

 slightly expanded at the base, adpressed-sericeous outside, glabresceut 

 inside. Stamens 30, in fascicles of 3, unequal, the shorter with undi- 

 lated filaments, the longer with filaments dilated in the lower half; all 

 with the connective produced into an apical process crowned by 3 to 

 5 spreading cilioe. Ovary ovoid-conic, seiiceous, with a short glabrous 

 style. Fruit (immature) ovoid, apiculate, pale-tomcntose, "5 in. long; 

 accrescent sepals membranous, reticulate : the three outer narrowly 

 oblong, reticulate, 7-nerved : the two inner 2 in. long, and '3 in. broad, 

 narrowed to above the concave base : the two inner 1 in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate, few-ncrvcd. 



Penang : Curtis, No. 1578, 



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