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ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, bluntly caudate-acnminate ; the 

 base slightly cuueate or sometimes broad, I'ounded and slightly unequal ; 

 both surfaces glabrous except the pubescent midrib : main nerves 

 numerous, not much more prominent than the secondary, and both 

 indistinct ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth '8 to 1-75 in. ; petiole '25 to '4 in. 

 minutely tomentose. Panicles axillary and terminal, numei-ous, short, 

 spreading, 1 to I'S in. long, puberulous or glabrous. Floioers 'IS to 

 •25 in. long, shortly pedicellate. Sepals sub-equal, ovate-rotund, sub- 

 acute or obtuse, puberulous and resinous outside, glabrous inside. 

 Petals twice as long as the sepals, broadly oblong-obtuse, silky oiitsidc 

 except on one side, glabrous inside. Stamens about 12, the filaments 

 dilated in the lower half, longer than the ovate anthers ; the connective 

 produced into a single apical awn longer than the stamen. Ovary 

 elongated, often constricted in the middle, glabrous ; style very short, 

 stigma minute. i?(/)e//v«Y ovoid, apicitlate, "3 in. long, striate, closely 

 embraced by the 3 inner sepals which about equal it in length ; the 

 outer two sepals acci^escent, oblanceolate, obtuse, tapering to the con- 

 cave base, reticulate, 7-nerved, 175 to 2 in. long, and '2 to •25 in. broad. 

 A. DC. Prod. XVI. 2, p. 634. Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lud. I, 310. 

 Burck in Ann. Bot. Jard. Buitenzorg, VI, 238. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) N"o. 210. Penang : Curtis, Nos. 

 167, 266, 1397. Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 3525, 8170. Distrib, 

 Borneo : Bangka, Sumatra. 



Mr. Curtis notes on the Penang specimens of this, that the bark of 

 the tree is smooth and of a grey colour, whereas the back of its close ally 

 H. intermedia is fissured like that of Shorea parvtflora. The species of Hopea 

 ■with numerous indistinct nerves, (Sect. Bryohalanoides) are not ea.sy to 

 distinguish from each other in the Herbarium. H. Mengaraivan, Miq., a 

 species published two years earlier than this {i. e., in 1860), comes A'cry 

 near tliis, and the two may possibly prove to be identical, in which 

 case Miquel's name must be adopted. Hopea cernua, Teysm. and Binu. 

 ■was described by its authors from a plant originally obtained from 

 Sumatra, but cultivated in the Buitenzorg Garden. It differs from H. 

 Mengaraican and from H. micrantlia in having larger leaves with more 

 prominent nerves. Its authors wei-e doubtful as to its being really dis- 

 tinct from H. Mcnrjarawan, and I think these doubts were well founded. 

 Under the species named H. Dryohalanoides by Miquel (1. c ) there are, 

 Dr. Burck asserts, two plants. One of these collected at Soeno-ie- 

 pagoe iu Sumatra, is, he says, simply II. Mengaraivan, Miq., and it is 

 the fruit of this which Miquel describes under his II. Bryohalanoides. 

 The other specimen from Priaman in Sumatra is different, and it is to 

 it that Dr. Burck (Ann. Bot. Jard. Buiteuzoi'g VI,, 211) desires to 



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