Qordcnia.] 12. ternstr(EMiace.t;. 17 



2-4 bracteolate. Sepals usually 5, unequal, graduating from the 

 bracts to the petals. Petals free, the innermost larger. Stamens 

 5-adelphous or all connate, adnate to the petals. Ovary 3-5 celled : 

 stigma stout, spreading ; ovules 4-8 in each cell. Capsule oblong, 

 woody angled, dehiscent. Seeds flat-winged, albumen 0. 



G. obtusa, Wall. Cat. 1459 ; FI. Br. I. 1. 291 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 83. 

 Koukan gbats. 



Order 13. DIPTEROCARPEiE. 



Resinous trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple. 

 ♦Stipules usually small. Flowers regular, bisexual, sweet-scented. 

 Calyx 5-lobed ; 2 or more segments accrescent in fruit. Petals 5. 

 Stamens pentamerous. Connective often aristate. Ovary 1-3- 

 celled. Ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous, laterally affixed or erect. 

 Fruit winged. Seeds 1-2. 



Calyx much enlarged in fniit. 



Calyy in fruit with a distinct tube, wings 2, erect ...DipterocaRPUS. 



"Wings 5, unequal, spreading ... ... ... .. AncistrOCLADUS. 



Calyx in fruit with an obscure tube. 



Fruit 3-5-wiuged Shokea. 



Fruit 2.winged Hopea. 



Calyx not winged in fruit Vateria. 



DIPTEROCARPUS, Gaertn. 



Large trees, stellately pubescent. Leaves coriaceous simple, 

 sitipules large valvate enclosing the terminal bud. Flowers large, 

 racemed. Calyx-tube free. Petals pubescent externally. Stamens 

 numerous. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit 1-seeded. 

 enclosed in the calyx-tube, free ; wings 2, erect. 



D. turbinatus, Gaertn. f. Fruct. III. 51, t. 188 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 295; 

 D. indicus, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 94. Woodoil tree. ChnUane, K. On 

 the southern ghats of North Kanara, in evergreen forests ; common on 

 the Gairsoppah ghat. Fl. Dec, Jan. Fr. ripe May. Certainly indige- 

 nous. 



ANCISTROCLADUS, Wall. 



Climbing shrubs with circinately hooked branches. Leaves 

 coriaceous, entire. Flowers in terminal or lateral panicles. Calyx- 

 tube short ; lobes unequally enlarged. Stamens 5-10. Ovary 1- 

 celled, inferior ; styles 3, articulated to rounded disc ; ovule solitary. 

 Fruit crowned with the accrescent calyx wings. 



A. Heyneanus, Wall. Cat. 7262; Fl. Br. I. 1. 229; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 34. Kardor, kurdul, M. On the ghats of the Konkan and 

 North Kanara, in evergreen forests. Fl. Mch. Fr. April. 



SHOREA, Roxb. 

 Besinous trees. Leaves entire. Flowers bracteate, in lax 

 cymose panicles. Calyx-tube short, adnate to the torus, all seg- 

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