DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 159 
edges slightly undulate, both surfaces glabrous; main nerves 7 to 8 pairs, spreading 
and curving upwards, not prominent on either surface; length 1°75 to 4 in., breadth 
8 to 1:6 in., petiole ‘25 to :4 т. Panicles axillary and terminal, hoary-pubesccnt, 
many-flowered; the flowers secund, 7 to 9 on each lateral branchlet, pedicelled, “2 to 
"25 іп. long. Sepals sub-equal, broadly ovate, sub-acute, yellowish-pulverulent, puberulous 
externally, glabrous internally. Petals oblong, obtuse, twisted and with the apices 
reflexed in sestivation, spreading when expanded, minutely yellowish-pulverulent, tomen- 
tose outside, glabrous inside. Stamens 15, sub-equal; apical awn curved, longer than 
the anther. Ovary ovoid, narrowing upwards into the style, stigma minute. Fruit 
ovoid, very slightly apiculate, striate, pale pubescent, about '6 in. long and :3 in. in 
diam., the persistent calyx covering the lower fourth of the fruit, sub-glabrous, thickened 
and concave at the base; the teeth deltoid, spreading. Richetia penangiana, Heim іп 
Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1891, p. 980, 
Penang: on Government Hill, at an elevation of about 1,000 feet, Cuitis, Nos. 1429 
and 1393; Hullett, No. 188; King's Collector, No. 1534. Perak: King's Collector, 
Nos. 3333, 3707. 
The leaves of this species, although larger, resemble those of B. Curtisii: but the fruits of the 
two are quite different. One of Mr. Curtis’ specimens, (No. 429 communicated from Kew), forms 
the type of a new genus called Richetia, which М. Heim has founded (l. е. p., 975, also in his 
“Recherches sur les Dipterocarpacées” p. 50), without having seen its flowers. I have retained for 
this M. Heim’s .вресійе name, while referring it to Beddome’s older genus. The vernacular name of the 
species is Dammar Etam. 
Prare 1918. Balanocarpus penanginus, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, fruiting branch: of natural size; 3, flower 
bud: enlarged; À, calyx and pistil; 6, petal and stamens: much enlarged; 6 and 7, stamens; 8, ovary; 9, section of 
ovary: very much enlarged, 
PLATE 192. 
BALANOCARPUS MAXIMUS, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1890, рі. 2, р. 133. 
A tree 60 to 80 feet high, all parts except the inflorescence glabrous, young 
branches rather stout; the bark, loose, papery, lenticellate, pale. Leaves thinly coria- 
ceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, slightly narrowed to the rounded base; main 
nerves 7 to 9 pairs, slightly prominent beneath, the transverse veins slightly promi- 
nent when dry; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2 to 25 in., petiole “5 to '6 in. Panicles 
axillary or terminal, about half as long as the leaves, few-flowered, minutely tomen- 
tose. Flowers subsessile, “6 ог ‘7 in. long. Sepals broadly ovate, the outer two tomentose 
the inner three more or less glabrous externally, all glabrous internally, the inner 
two with ciliate margins. Petals much longer than the sepals, narrowly oblong, the 
apex erose, expanded and concave at the base, adpressed-pubescent outside and towards 
the apex inside, otherwise glabrous, Stamens 10, in two rows; anthers with a deflexed 
terminal appendage from the connective. Ovary elongate, narrowly conical, sericeous. 
Style rather short, glabrous, stigma small. Ripe fruit cylindrical, tapering to each end 
but most to the apiculate apex; pericarp woody, striate, sub-glabrous, pale-brown when 
dry, 1:75 to 2:25 in. long, and *6 or ‘7 in. in diam. Persistent sepals fibrous, forming a 
toothed cup about “5 in. deep and embracing the base of the fruit. 
Perak: King’s Collector, Nos. 7987 and 8006. 
