154 ` ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
PLATE 186. 
SHOREA KuxsrLERI, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1893, pf. 2, р. 116. 
A tree 60 to 100 feet high; young branches slender, rusty-puberulous, their 
bark brown. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, abruptly and shortly acuminate, the base rounded 
or slightly cuneate, both surfaces glabrous, the lower with a few stiff white hairs on 
the midrib and nerves; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, curved, ascending, prominent on 
the lower surface; length 4 to 5 in., breadth 2 to 2:1 in., petiole “5 to -7 in. Pani- 
cles axillary and terminal, 4 to 6 in. long, lax, few-flowered, scaly-paberuious Flowers 
“5 in. long, sub-sessile, 4 or 5 together on the short branches of the panicles, secund, 
bracteate; the bracts broadly ovate, puberulous. Sepals sub-equal, broadly ovate, acute, 
tomentose outside, the edges ciliate, glabrous inside. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse; tho 
bases obliquely expanded, sericeous externally, glabrous internally. Stamens 15, sub- 
equal; the filaments longer than the anthers, flattened; anthers ovate, short, the connective 
terminated by a curved awn much longer than the stamen. Ovary elongate-conic, puber- 
ulous, style short. Ripe fruit broadly ovoid, tapering into a cone and crowned by 
part of the style, adpressed pale tomentose. Sepals membranous, reticulate; the three 
larger narrowly oblong, obtuse, tapering to the concave non-reticulate base, 9-nerved, 
3:0 in. long and ‘7 in. broad; the two inner 2 in. long, linear, 3-nerved. 
Perak: King’s Collector, Nos, 3174 and 3705. 
This species is allied to S. bracteolata, Dyer, but its leaves have fewer nerves, smaller flowers, 
narrower petals, and a short style. 
PrarE 186. Shorea Kunstleri, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, ripe fruit; 3, ripe fruit with the three outer 
accrescent calyx-wings removed ; 4, outer accrescent calyx-wing; 5, inner accrescent calyx-wing; 6, ripe fruit; 
7, section of ripe fruit: of natural size; 8, calyx, ovary and style; 9, petals and stamens: enlarged ; 10, stamens: 
тией enlarged. 
PLATE 187A. 
SHoREA CILIATA, King in Journ. Аз. Soc. Bengal, for 1893, рі. 2, p. 118. 
A medium-sized tree; young branches slender, dark-coloured, deciduously hoary- 
puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong.-lanceolate, acuminate, the base 
euneate; both surfaces glabrous, minutely reticulate, the lower whitish when young, 
pale brown when dry; main nerves 5 to 9 pairs, ascending, curved, shining on the 
lower surface; length 2:5 to 3°5 in, breadth ‘8 to 1'5 in. petiole °75 to ‘9 in. 
Panicles 2 to 95 in. long, axillary and terminal, little-branched, few-flowered, hoary. 
Fiowers *5 in. long. Sepals ovoid-deltoid, obtuse, outside tomentose, inside glabrous. 
Petals three times as long as the sepals, narrowly oblong, obtuse, slightly expanded 
at the base, adpressed-sericeous outside, glabrescent inside. Stamens 30, in fascicles 
of 3, unequal, the shorter with undilated filaments, the longer with filaments dilated 
in the lower half; all with the connective produced into an apical process crowned by 
3 to 5 spreading ciliæ. Ovary ovoid-conie, sericeous, with a short glabrous style. Fruit 
(immature) ovoid, apiculate, pale-tomentose, *5 in. long; accrescent sepals membranous, 
reticulate; the three outer narrowly oblong, reticulate, 7-nervel; the two inner 2 in. 
