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restrict the name H. Dryobalanoides^ Miq. Thei'e is in the Calcutta 

 Herbarium an authentic specimen of the very gathering of the Soengie- 

 pagoe plant on which Miquel worked, and I should refer it to H. 

 micrantha Hook. fil. 



Petalandra micrantha, Harssk. has been reduced by the authors of 

 the Genera Piantarum (Vol. I. p. 393) to Hopea. It is however a different 

 plant from this, and belongs to Miquel's section En-hopea, which is 

 characterised by the nerves being prominent. By Dr. Burck, Petalandra 

 is reduced to Poona. 



4. Hopea intermedia, King n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 

 young branches rather dark-coloured, minutely lenticellate, puberulous. 

 Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, the basecuneatc, 

 both sui^faces glabrous ; main nerves numerous, faint ; length 2"5 to 

 3 in., breadth 1 to 1'35 in. ; petiole '35 to "6 in, slender, puberulous but 

 finally glabrous. Panicles as in J3. Mengarazvan, the flowers pedicellate. 

 Sepals sub-equal ; the two outer ovate, acuminate ; the three inner 

 broader and more obtuse, all resinous outside, glabrous and smooth in- 

 side. Petals twice as long as the sepals, narrowly oblong, obtuse, falcate, 

 densely sericeous externally, glabrous witliin. Stamens 12 ; the fila- 

 ments dilated, shorter than the anthers ; the anthers short, crowned by 

 a straight awn from the connective longer than the stamen. Ovary 

 hour-glass shaped ; style shoi't, stigma small. Pipe fruit on oiiX, ViT^^cM- 

 late, "2 in. long, pale, striate ; the two outer sepals accrescent, narrowly 

 oblong-obtuse, narrowed to the base, reticulate, obscurely 5- to 7-nerved, 

 1*25 to 1"5 in. long and '25 in. broad; the inner three sepals not accres- 

 cent, not longer than the fruit, and closely embracing it. 



Penang: Curtis, No. 425 and J 398. Perak : King's Collector, 

 No. 3709. 



This species is no doubt near to H. micrantha, Hook, fil., but, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Curtis, it is distinguishable from that, while growing, by its 

 bark, this tree having a fissured bark like that of Shorea parvifolia, Dyer, 

 Avhile the bark of H. micrantha is smooth and grey. The petals of 

 this are also more sericeous than those of H. micrantha, the filaments 

 are shorter than the anthers (not longer, as in H. micrantha), the leaves 

 are more glabrous, the petioles longer and more slender and more 

 glabrous, and the fruit and accrescent sepals are smaller than in II. 

 miicrantha. I have therefore ventui'ed, after nmch hesitation, to name 

 this as a species, and from its relationship to II. micrantha and//. Mewja- 

 raioun, I have called it H. intermedia. Its vernacular name in Penang 

 is Janl:ang. It has been suggested that tlii.s plant should be refer- 

 red to II. Dryohalanoides, Miq.— a course which I would have adopted 

 with great pleasure had it becu clear what U. Dryohalanoides really is. 



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