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late, lateral nerves looped and connected by transverse reticula- 

 tion ; petiole often swollen just below the leaf -blade ; stipules 

 encircling the stem, falling early and leaving an annular scar. 

 Flowers large, white or reddish, racemed or panicled. Calyx 

 with a free tubular base. Petals valvate, pubescent. Stamens 

 numerous ; anthers elongated, acuminate. Ovary with 3 2-ovuled 

 cells and a filiform style. Fruit a 1 (-2) -seeded nut, enclosed in a 

 smooth, ribbed, or reticulate accrescent calyx-tube with 2(-5) 

 erect wings. Cotyledons large, thick, unequal. 



Tube of fruiting calyx 5-winged ; leaf-nerves below and young shoots 



clothed with spreading tomentum 1. Bourdilloni. 



Tube of fruiting calyx smooth ; leaves subglabrous ; young shoots with 

 short adpressed tomentum 2. indicu*. 



1. DIPTEROCARPUS BOURDILLONI, Brandis in Hook. Ic. PI. 

 t. 2403. 



W. Ghats : Carcoor Ghat in Malabar ; N. and C. Travan- 

 core at low elevations. 



A magnificent evergreen tree, reaching 150 ft. in height. 

 Wood reddish brown, moderately hard. Vern. Tarn. Ear 

 anjili ; Mai. Charatta anjili. 



2. DIPTEROCARPUS INDICUS, Bedd. ; Bedd. Fl. t. 94. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats from S. Canara to Tinnevelly, up 

 to 3,000 ft., in evergreen forests. 



A lofty evergreen tree, reaching 120 ft. in height. Wood 

 reddish brown, hard, but not durable. Vern. Kan. Guga, 

 Challane ; Tarn. Ennei ; Mai. Kalpayin, Vellaini. 



2. Hopea, Eoxb. 



Large resinous trees. Leaves entire ; stipules small, deciduous. 

 Floivers sessile or shortly pedicelled, ebracteate, in lax unilateral 

 paniculate racemes. Sepals obtuse, imbricate, shortly united at 

 the base. Stamens 15 or rarely 10, slightly connate ; connective 

 produced into a subulate point ; anthers ovate. Ovary of 3 

 2-ovuled cells ; style short, subulate. Fruit 1-seeded, closely 

 surrounded by the bases of the accrescent sepals, the 2 external 

 of which are developed into linear or oblong wings. 



Panicles tomentose ; leaves with 8-12 pairs of nerves : 



Petals glabrous ; leaves ovate to oblong ; wings of fruit 2-5 in. long, 

 erect 1. parviftora. 



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