Shorea.} xxv. DIPTEROCARPE^E. ("W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 305 



leaves lax, calyx segments deltoid linear glabrous not dark coloured. 

 S. laccifera, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. 967; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 630. S. Rox- 

 burghii, Don Gen. Syst. i. 813. S. robusta, Roth. nov. sp. 221 (not of 

 Gcertn.). Vatica laccifera, W. & A. Prodr. 84 ; Wight. Ic. 164. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; forests of Mysore and Malabar. 



Glabrous, except the pubescent buds ; branchlets with smooth pale brown bark. 

 Leaves 3^-4^ by 2-2 ^ in., acute or retuse and mucronulate, base rounded or emar- 

 ginate, margins undulate, lateral nerves about 12-15 pairs; petiole 4-1 in. Pedicel? 

 4 in. Flowers 1 in. diam., pinkish white. Calyx -segments glabrous, margins ciliolate. 

 Anthers with a long seta. Bases of fruiting calyx-segments f in. long, obovate ; 

 wings 3 by | in., elliptic-linear, obtuse, with about 10 slender parallel nerves. Yields 

 a kind of lac. 



ft Flowers sessile or nearly so. 



5. S. leprosula,-J/*$. Fl. Ned. Ind. Suppl.'L 487 ; leaves oblong very 

 shortly acuminate, panicles terminal or axillary, branches small unilateral 

 racemose, calyx-segments ovate pubescent. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 631. 



MALACCA, Maingay. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Young parts and under surface of the leaves densely tawny-puberulous. Leaves about 

 4-5 by If 2| in., shining above, lateral nerves about 14 pairs, prominent beneath; 

 petiole 4 i n - Panicle about 4 in. Flowers sessile. Anthers cuspidate. (Ooary 

 glabrous; style filiform, stigma urceolate. Maingay.) (Fruit-wings spathulate obtuse. 

 Miq.) 



6. S. parvifolia, Dyer; leaves oblong-elliptic to ovate-acuminate, 

 panicles terminal lax, flowers with deciduous bracts, calyx-segments ovate 

 pubescent. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Young parts hoary, puberulous. Leaves 2-2 1 by 1-14 in-, ^ ase rounded, glabrescent 

 beneath, lateral nerves about 15 pairs; petiole ^ in. Panicles about 5 in. Flowers 

 sessile, 4 or 5 together; bracts fully ^ in. long, broadly elliptic, obtuse. (Petals \ in. 

 long. Anthers apiculate. Ovary pilose ; style slender, shorter than the ovary, stigma 

 scarcely lobed. Maingay.) Fruit unknown. 



7. S. acuminata, Dyer ; leaves ovate to lanceolate strongly acuminate, 

 panicles terminal lax, branches unilateral, bracts very fugacious, calyx- 

 segments ovate pubescent. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Young parts tawny-puberulous. Leaves 4-5 by 2-24 in., l> ase rounded or emar- 

 ginate, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, lateral nerves about 8 pairs, scarcely 

 prominent ; petiole ^ in. Panicles about 6 in. long, with tufts of enlarged bracts occa- 

 sionally terminating the branches. Floivers sessile. (Petals T ^ in. long. Anthers 

 shortly appendiculate. Ovary minutely pilose, tapering into the short filiform style, 

 stigma minutely lobed. Maingay.) Fruit unknown. 



8. S. bracteolata, Dyer ; leaves more or less narrowly oblong-elliptic 

 shortly acuminate, panicles terminal lax, branches flexuose, flowers each 

 with a pair of bracts, calyx-segments narrowly deltoid puberulous. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Young parts glabrescent. Leaves 3J-5 by 14-2J in., base rounded, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, lateral nerves 12-15 pairs, scarcely prominent; petiole 4~S in. Panicles 

 5-9 in. long. Flowers subsessile ; bracts ^ in. long, elliptic-lanceolate. Calyx 

 segments | in. long. Stamens cuspidate. Stigma simple. Bases of fruiting calyx 

 segments 4 in. long, ovate with 3 gibbosities at the bottom; wings 34 by 4 in., linear 

 subacute, with 9 parallel nerves. 



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