82 FLORA OF MADRAS. \Hopta. 



Panicles glabrous ; petals pubescent : 



Leaf-nerves 4-5 pairs ; bark black, peeling in strips from below 



upwards; fruit-wings -6-'9 in. broad 2. racophloea. 



Leaf nerves 6-12 pairs ; bark brownish ; fruit-wings -3--4 in. wide 



3. Wightiana. 



1. HOPEA PARVIFLOKA, Bedd. ; F. B. I. i. 308 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 7. 



Moist forests of the W. Coast and W. Ghats in all Ghat 

 Districts, up to 3,000 ft. ; often gregarious in hill forests, 

 sporadic on river banks in plains ones. 



A large handsome tree, with brown close-grained hard 

 wood, valuable for building purposes and for railway 

 sleepers Vern. Kan. Bovumara, Kiralboghi; Tarn. 

 Kongu, Pongu ; Mai. Thambagam. 



2. HOPEA RACOPHLOEA, Dyer in F. B. I. i. 310. H. malabarica, 

 Bedd. Ic. t. 185. 



W. Ghats in the forests of S. Canara, Wynaad, and Travan- 

 core, up to 3,000 ft. 



A moderate-sized tree with hard brown wood and charac- 

 teristic bark. Vern. Tarn. Karung kongu ; Mai. Neduvali 

 kongu. 



3. HOPEA WIGHTIANA, Wall. ; F. B. I. i. 309 ; W. & A. 85. H. 

 glabra, W. & A. 85 ; F. B. I. i. 310 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 96. 



Evergreen forests of the W. Coast from S. Canara south- 

 wards, often gregarious, especially in S. Canara. 

 A large tree with brown hard wood of good quality for 

 timber. Vern. Mar. Kavsi ; Kan. Haiga ; Tarn. Ila pongu. 



3. Shorea, Eoxb. 



Resinous trees of great height or rarely of medium size or even 

 shrubs. Leaves with the ultimate reticulation often inconspicuous ; 

 stipules often large, coriaceous or persistent. Panicles axillary or 

 terminal. Sepals imbricate, united at the base into a very short 

 tube. Stamens often 15 in 3 rows, rarely fewer, sometimes more 

 numerous and occasionally as many as 100 ; anthers usually ovate 

 or oblong with a subulate extension of the connective. Ovary of 3 

 2-ovuled cells ; style subulate ; stigma entire or minutely lobed. 

 Fruit with a leathery, rarely woody, pericarp, 1-celled, 1-seeded, 

 closely surrounded by the bases of the persistent, usually accres- 

 cent, sepals, the 3 outer of which (or rarely 5 or 0) are developed 



