80 FLOE A OF MADRAS. [Gordonia. 



of the E. side, usually from 5,000 to 7,000 ft., lower in 



Travancore. 



Wood reddish, hard and close-grained, but little used. Vern. 



Nilg. Nagetta. 



Camellia Thea, Link., the Tea Plant, is much cultivated, 



especially in the Nilgiri and Travancore Mountains. 



Family XXIY. DIPTEROCARPACEAE. 



Resinous trees. Leaves alternate, entire or rarely crenate, 

 penninerved, usually with small stipules. Flowers regular, her- 

 maphrodite, usually sweet-scented, in racemes or panicles. Calyx 

 free and campanulate or short and adnate to the ovary. Petals 

 contorted. Stamens numerous, 15, 10 or 5, variously connate or 

 free ; filaments usually short and often dilated below ; connective 

 often produced into an appendage above. Ovary usually slightly 

 adherent to the calyx, 3 (-l)-celled ; style usually quite entire ; 

 ovules lateral or basal, 2 in each cell. Fruit an indehiscent nut 

 or a 3-valved capsule usually enclosed in the accrescent calyx and 

 often winged by the elongation of 2 or more of the sepals. Seeds 

 l(-2), exalbuminous ; cotyledons fleshy. 



Stipules amplexicaul, scars encircling the twigs ; calyx tubular ; fruit 



with 2 long wings 1. Dipterocarpus. 



Stipules not amplexicaul ; sepals nearly free : 



Bases of the inner sepals nearly hidden by the outer in flower and 

 fruit ; sepals erect in fruit and enclosing the nut ; anthers with long 

 awns (except in Shorea robusta and S. TwnbuggaiaJ : 

 Sepals developing in fruit into long erect wings : 



Wings 2 2. Hopea. 



Wings 3 3. Shorea. 



Sepals accrescent but shorter than the fruit or developing into short 



spreading wings 4 , Balanocarpus. 



Bases of the sepals equally exposed in flower and fruit ; anther points 

 short or : 



Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; flowers in axillary racemes 



5. Yatica. 

 Sepals linear, obtuse ; flowers in terminal panicles 6. Yateria. 



1. Dipterocarpus, Gaertn. f. 



Trees, often of great height, more or less clothed with tawny 

 stellate pubescence. Leaves coriaceous, margins entire or undu- 



