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tioD of the fruit from Dr. Burck (I.e.). Miquel, wlio first dcseribed 

 the plant as a probable Vatica, had seen nothing but a leaf-twig. 

 Specimens brought from Perak by the Calcntta collectors bear, instead 

 of flowers, curious cones, 1*5 in. loug, of distichous imbricate bracts, 

 concerning which Griilith, in his field note on his specimen No. 5018, 

 wrote, — " irregular growth caused by an insect ; each of the scales 

 of these cones bears on its dorsum at its base a number of eggs." 

 Grifiith's No. 5019 appears to belong to a closely allied, but distinct, spe- 

 cies ; as also does the indeterminate plant issued by Wallich as No. 6635 

 of his catalogue, under the designation, " Dilleniacea \_?~\ nervosa." 



21. SiiOREA Thiseltoni, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 

 young branches rather stout, the bark dark-coloured and lenticellate, 

 but covered at first by a pale-grey, deciduous pellicle. Leaves coriace- 

 ous, elliptic-oblong to ellijotic, rai-ely oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, 

 obtuse, slightly narrowed to the rounded base ; both surfaces glabi-ous, 

 the lower when very young sparsely Icpidote, puberulous especially 

 on the midrib and nerves, brown when dry : main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, 

 ascending, slightly curved, bold and prominent on the under surface 

 like the midrib ; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2'5 to 3*25 iu. ; petiole '6 

 to "8 in., stout. Panicles axillary and terminal, 2 to 3 in. long, velvety, 

 few-flowered, ajoparently ebracteolate. Flotoers sessile, "6 or '7 in. 

 long. Sepals ovate, sub-acute, unequal ; the 3 outer tomeutose outside, 

 glabrous inside ; the 2 inner smaller, nearly glabrous, the edges 

 ciliate. Petals much longer tlian the sepals, linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 expanded at the base, glabrous, except one-half of the outer surface 

 which is adpressed-pubescent. Stamens 15, in 3 I'ows, the filaments of 

 all dilated, unequal : the anthers shortly ovate, those of the inner and 

 longer row inappendiculate, those of the other two rows with a short 

 apical appendage from the connective. Ovary narrowly conical, 

 tomentose, tapering into the short glabrous style ; stigma minute. 

 Pipe fruit narrowly ovoid, apiculate, minutely pale-tomentose, substriate, 

 1'2 in. long, and 6 in. in diam., the pericarp thick and woody. Per- 

 sistant sepals with much thickened concave woody bases, forming a 

 cup embracing the lower half of the fiuit, the apices of the outer three 

 pi'olonged into membranous linear-oblong obtuse wings exceeding 

 the fruit and sometimes 15 in. long ; one of the inner sepals shortly 

 winged, the other often broad, obtuse and not winged. 



Perak : common. King's Collector. 



In this plant the fruit is much larger than in any of the other 

 species of Shorea here described, and its pericarp is hard and thick. 

 The bases of the sepals ara greatly thickened and concave, and they 

 form a cujj which embraces closely, but does not adhere to, the lower 



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