Dipterocarpus: | DIPTEROCARPE. 251 
85. Ancistrocladus Wall: 
Shrubs, climbing with short supra-axillary often arrested and 
Gana hooked branches; leaves avin coriaceous, usually 
tufted, entire, reticulately veined ; stipules minute, caducous, or 0. 
Flowers usually small, caducous, in rane or lateral pilsibdos. 
Calyx 5-lobed, lobes imbricate, tube at first short, adnate to base of 
oe finally turbinate and adnate to fruit, with lobes unequall 
ged, membranous, spreading. Petals 5, minute. Stamens 
ee igsadas 5 or 10. Ovary 1-celled, at length subinferior ; 
styles 8, articulated to a rounded or shortly cylindric epigynous 
disk ; ovule solitary, erect, basal or lateral. Seeds solitary, sub- 
globose, testa. intruded between the folds of the copious fleshy 
te albumen ; embryo short, straight. 
134, AncistRoctapus Wat.icutt Planch.; F. B. I. i. 300. 
Chittagong. 
A climbing shrub with supra-axillary circinate hooks. 
86. Dipterocarpus Gaertn. f. 
ofty trees ; young branches more or less closely pubescent with 
stellate or tufted hairs ; leaves coriaceous, entire or sinuate, lateral 
herves subparallel; petiole somewhat swollen at apex; stipules 
large, valvate, enclosing the bud, caducous from an annular scar. 
Flowers large, reddish or white, in short or long racemes. Calyx 
S-lobed, tube free, two of the lobes much acerescent. Petals 5, 
contorted, slightly et below. Stamens numerous; anthers 
ear acuminate. Ovary 3-locular; style filiform; ovules 2 in 
each loculus, Frwit tadlehtosaul nucular, 1-, rarely 2-seeded, 
enclosed within the accrescent free calyx-tube, whtithi is surmounte 
y the persistent calyx-lobes, 2 of which are enlar ged into erect 
hg lanceolate coriaceous wings. Seed adnate to the pericarp 
W 5 ee 0; embryo with large, thick, ae unequal 
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: Calyx-tube i in fruit with mea ribs nor wings :— 
Young branches not pilose :— 
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Young branches more or less pilose ee ee a ereies Lepage bere Pp Boies: 
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Calyx-tube i in fruit 5-ribbed or 5-winged :— 
Angles projecting on upper part of calyx-tube only [p. 252] apenniatnt: 
