AND TROPICAL AFRICA. 161 



1. HoPEA MICRANTHA (H. f.) ; iTiiaute lepidota, ramulis nigris, foliis coriaceis ellijitico- 



ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve caudato-acuminatis, subtus petiolis peduneulisque parce 



pul3eralis, paniculis brevibus axillaribus terminalibusque, fioribus densis secundis, 



calycibus cereis, petalis dorso sericeo-tomentosis. 



Hah, In ora septentrional! Borneo, ad insulam Labuan, Motley. Nom. vern. "Dammar mata Kucliing" 



(or " cats'-eye resin ") and " Dammar Batu." 

 Folia 2-2^" longa, subgrisea, subtus cinerea, petiolo \-l" longo. Racemi ^-1" longi. Flores yL" longi. 

 Petala oblonga, basi connata. Stamina sub 12. 

 Motley's specimens vary a little in tlie breadtli of tlie leaf. He sends them under two 

 names, viz., as the " Rock Dammar," a very large tree with furrowed bark, hard wood 

 turniag brown when cut, yielding sparingly a white resin, and one of the best timl)ers ; 

 also as the tree yielding " Dammar mata Kuching," " of no great diameter, but tall, with 

 smooth buttresses, deeply fissured bark on the trunk, wood hard, light yellowish-brown, 

 durable, easily worked; the resin exades iu large lumps from the truak and branches." 

 Of other Bornean Dixiterocarpe<B there are — 



1. A small-leaved Dlpterocarpus ? described by Motley (Labuan, No. 143) as a hard heavy 



oily wood, much valued for masts and otherwise in ship-building. The branches 

 are rather slender, covered with a minute ashy pulverulent tomeutum ; the leaves 

 3 inches long, on long petioles, glabrous, elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, obscurely 

 waved at the margin, veins straight, 6-8 on each side of the costa, forming an angle 

 of 45° with it, and joined by fine transverse veinlets. 



2. Vatica sp. ? ? " Dammar frutik," from Low, quite indeterminable. 



3. Vatica? A handsome plant sent by Low, with elliptic-oblong coriaceous leaves 



6-8 inches long, scattered stellate hairs on the ramuli and panicle, and fruit with 

 three linear-oblong wings 5 inches long. 



4. Vatica? " Bunk Tansaman," Low; yields a useful oil. A noble species with stout 



annulate branches ; linear-oblong leaves a foot long, cuneate or cordate at the base, 

 minutely pubescent on the costa and veins below ; branching, flexuous, pubescent 

 panicles a span long. — Bracts oblong, pubescent, f inch long. All the sepals of the 

 young fruit are enlarged. 



5. Vatica? Labuan, Motley (204). 



6. HoPEA? Labuan, Jfo^% (116). Common " Dammara hitam." Yields a dark resin. 



Is apparently the same as 115, Labuan, Motley, " Salangan Putik." 



7. HopEA? Motley (37). "Dammar Tritain" or Black Dammar. Yields most of the 



Dammar of the Malay countries. 

 There is further enumerated, in Blume's ' Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat.,' Shorea ovalis, Bl. 

 \Vatica, Korth.), a native of Borneo. 



Xat. Ord. TERNSTRCEMIACEJE. 



1. Satjrauja Planchoni (H. f.) ; ramulis petiolis inflorescentiaque dense appresse setosis 

 squamatisque, foliis (amplis) elliptico-lanceolatis caudato-acuminatis margine inte- 



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