160 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
The flowers of this fine species do not exactly answer to Beddome’s diagnosis of the genus 
Balanocarpus, inasmuch as they have 10 instead of 15 stamens, and neither of the cotyledons is 
lobed. In other respects the flowers and fruit agree perfectly. 
Prats 192. Balanocarpus maximus, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, ripe fruit: of natural size; 3, flower-bud; 4 
‘petal; 6 to 9, the sepals; 10 and 11, anthers; 12, ovary: all enlarged. 
PLATE 193. 
Baranocarpus Hemstevanus, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1893, pt. 2, p. 134. 
A tree 50 to 100 feet high; young branches rather stout, rough, minutely lenticel- 
late, puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly 
cuspidate, slightly narrowed to the rounded or sub-emarginate base: upper surface glab- 
rous except the minutely tomentose midrib; the lower scabrid from minute rigid 
stellately hairy tubercles which are most abundant on the stout midrib and nerves: 
main nerves 15 to 20 pairs, oblique, parallel, very prominent on the lower, obsolete 
on the upper, surface; length 7 to 12 in., breadth 3:25 to 5 in.; petiole “б to ۰9 in., 
scabrid-pubescent.  Panicles axillary or terminal, З to 7 in. long, scurfy stellate- 
pubescent; flowers “6 in. long, rather crowded on the short lateral branchlets. Sepals 
sub-equal, broadly ovate, acute, yellowish-tomentose externally, glabrous internally. Petals 
twice as long as the sepals, or longer, elliptic, oblique, obtuse, glabrous except a broad 
adpressed-sericeous band externally. Stamens 15, in bunches of three: the filaments 
dilated, unequal, longer than the shortly ovate anthers; apical connectival appendage 
deflexed, curved, longer than the anther. Ovary elongated-conic, minutely tomentose, 
tapering into the sparsely puberulous style; stigma small. Ripe fruit. narrowly ovoid, 
apiculate, pale brownish-tomentose, 1:25 to 15 in. long and ‘75 t» 1 in. in diam. Per- 
sistent sepals nearly equal; their bases thickened, woody, pubescent, and concave, forming 
an irregularly 5-toothed cup which embraces the lower half of the fruit. Shorea Hems- 
leyana, King MSS. in Herb. Cale. | 
Penang: Curtis, No. 2512. Perak: King's Collector, Nos, 5431, 6670, and 7562. 
Seortechini, No. 1653. 
This is an altogether anomalous species. It has leaves like several of the scabrid species of 
Shorea, such as 8. eximia and 8. lprosula. Its flowers are also more like those of Shorea than 
Balanocarpus; but its fruit is essentially that of the latter genus, in which, not without hesitation, 
I include it. 
Рглте 193. Balanocarpus Hemsleyanus, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, branch with ripe fruit: of natural size; 
3, calyx and pistil; 4, a group of stamens; 5, a petal with group of stamens at its base; 6, petal from a bud; 
7, ovary, style and stigma; 8, vertical section of the same : much enlarged. 
РАСПҮХОСАЕРОЗ, Hook. fil. 
Nat. Ord. Dipterocarpee. 
Resinous trees with the leaves and flowers of Гайса, but with sometimes only 
ien stamens. Fruit ovoid-globose, umbonate at the apex, l-celled, 1-seeded, the pericarp 
. densely coriaceous, splitting vertically. Calyv with five equal segments, at first almost 
x free from the fruit, but the tube gradually accrescent, much thickened and adnate to 
. the fruit, and finally embracing the whole of it except the apex. Seed pendulous, testa 
_ thin and adherent to the endocarp, cotyledons very thick and fleshy. | 
