Flowers large white and Cislus-like, with golden-yellow tassel of anthers, but 

 letramerous; stamens to 1,000 on collar-growth: ovary of 2 carpels, 2-locular, 

 2 ovules basal in each loculus. Fruit i in., woody, 2 valved, shedding 1-4 seeds. 



II. Ternstroemiaceae (Theaceae, 16/200). A series of more generalized 

 types, the Cistitloral flowers being associated with older spiral leaf-arrangement, 

 the leaves simple, serrate, without stipules, and the plants without resin-glands 

 (leaves not gland-dotted). 



Camellia Thea, Tea, a shrub or small tree of Assam, planted Ceylon, &c., 

 leaves 1-2 in., flowers white, \ in., singly in leaf-a.\ils, pentamerous ; stamens 50 or 

 so; gynoecium of 3 carpels with 3 styles and i ovule in each of 3 loculi. Capsule 

 3-angled, dehiscent loculicidally, seeds 3, not winged. Cf. Tcrnslroeinia japonica, 

 a large deciduous tree of Hill-forest; Eurya, dioecious with indehiscent fruit; 

 Gordonia with winged seeds. 



Schima Walliehii, semi-gregarious in Hill-forest, N. Bengal, 80-100 fi., 

 leaves 4-6 in. : flowers of 77;ra-type, 2 in. diam. Capsule \ in., with 3 -l-in. flat 

 winged seeds. 



III. Dipterocarpaceae (16/325), a family of fine timber-trees of Indo-Malay, 

 with representative species, many more or less gregarious. Leaves spirally arranged, 

 stipulate ; inflorescence as multibranched panicles with cymose terminals (mono- 

 chasia) : flowers pentamerou?, caly.K quincuncial with heterodromy ; corolla convolute 

 in prefloration ; androecium of 5-10 or many stamens; gynoecium of 3 carpels, 

 ovary 3-locular with axile placentation and 2 ovules in each loculus, but i seed only 

 sets in the normally indehiscent fruit. Cotyledons massive, storing fat, and remaining 

 in the seed at germination. The characteristic new feature is the manner in which 

 2, 3, or 5 sepals, are extended to laminae which are utilized for spinning the fruits. 



Shorea robusta, Sal, gregarious, dominant and characteristic of Central India and 

 NE. in deciduous forest, on two sides of Gangetic plain; to 120 ft.; the Dipterocarp 

 farthest north, flowering en masse when partially leafless, March. 



hiflorescence as terminal and axillary panicles, 6 in. ; ultimate monochasia with 

 flowers 'sessile', 15-18 mm. over all: sepals 3 mm., with soft grey hairs; petals 

 convolute, 10 mm., dull orange-yellow with soft pubescence, fugitive : androecium 

 of about 30 free stamens, 3 deep ; filaments 3 mm., with broad sheathing base and 

 anthers with awl-like connective-process as a trigger-mechanism, pollen-dusting ; no 

 specialized nectary. Gynoecium of 3 carpels ; ovary sub-globular, 2 mm., style simple, 

 stigma 3-lobed ; 2 anatropous ovules in each loculus. 



In Fruit the 5 sepals increase in size; i, 2, and 3, much more than the others, 

 to 2-3 in. long, each with 10-15 parallel main veins, as photosynthetic and pro- 

 tective to green fruit, utilized later for dispersal mechanism, by strong winds (June): 

 germination hypogeal and immediate. 



Cf. Representative Species, essentially similar in flower and fruit, 6". Tumbuggaia 

 in Cuddapah ; S. Talura in. W. evergreen forests of Kanara ; S. Assamica, Makai, 

 in Assam ; .S'. obtusa, Burma, &c., also sp. in Borneo, Amboina, and Cochin China. 



Hopea odorata, a fine tree of Burma, 100-120 ft., Thingan ; in moist 

 tropical forest, non-gregarious, with shining dark-green drooping leaves. Inflor- 

 escence of similar terminal and axillary panicles, ultimate monochasia of small 

 greenish-yellow flowers, 10 mm. diam., much as Shorea, but corolla gamopetalous 

 below and shed with androecium in one piece ; petals convolute with frilled ends ; 

 androecium of 15 stamens (in 3 alternating whorls of 5); connective-process as 

 long as anther (i mm.) ; gynoecium of 3 carpels, 2 ovules m each loc, one seed sets. 

 Fruit a small nut, 8 mm., with sepals i, 2, only free and extended to broad wings, 

 2 in. long, and very characteristic. 



Parashorea stellata, evergreen tree, 150 ft., of Martaban and the Malay 

 Peninsula. Flowers small cream-coloured ; sepals and petals velvety ; stamens 15 ; 

 all 5 sepals equally extended as 'wings' of fruit, 2-3 in. long, the nut velvety and 

 exposed between their bases. 



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